A selection of English ESL going to and will printables

The worksheet has a short list of the uses of going to and will and monologues of 4 young people expressing their resolutions for the new year. This is a gap fill activity with discussion questions.

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS WITH GOING TO AND WILL

will and going to

I used this song of the Beatles to make students see the difference between the two future forms. I first played the song and students had to listen to it. During the second time as I had cut the stanzas they had to order it and finally they had to fill in the gaps. Hope it's useful for you too.

Song by The Beatles. WILL and BE GOING TO

This is a useful EFL worksheet which is about the BE GOING TO structure of the future. Affirmative negative and question forms. You can also work on some verbs. Hope you and your students will enjoy it . Have a nice lesson

BE GOING TO - Future Tense Grammar Guide and Review

A worksheet with explanation, examples and exercises based on pictures with future with will, going to, future continuous and future perfect. It's fully editable.

Future: will, going to, f. continuous and f. perfect

Students are expected to apply the rules for using different future tenses. After reading the rules about the correct usage they are asked to fill in the gaps of the worksheet with WILL or BE GOING TO. The two forms that are most often used in English are WILL and BE GOING TO and students have to learn in which situations these two tenses are used. Particularly the form BE GOING TO has special difficulties. The students have to learn that the Simple Present, which is commonly used cannot be used in these situations.

Future tenses: the difference between WILL and BE GOING TO

ESL worksheet containing exercises focused on practicing the use of different future forms. The worksheet contains exercises with WILL, GOING TO, MAY/MIGHT, PRESENT CONTINUOUS AND PRESENT SIMPLE

Future forms, WILL, GOING TO, MIGHT, PRESENT CONTINUOUS AND SIMPLE

It’s a very fun activity to do with a A2 B1 level. You need space and a good amount of students, let’s say more than 7. Read the instructions well and enjoy the activity! It can also be repeated. Leave an honest feedback, it is one of my most cherished activities and I’m eager to see if you also like it. 

FUTURE FORMS BE GOING TO PRESENT CONTINUOUS AND PRESENT SIMPLE

How do we express future in English?When we use will,be going to and present continuous?What are their formulas?What is the difference between be going to and present continuous? This is a grammar guide explaning all these above with examples.And at the end of each topic,I gave some sentences and wanted my students to explain why we used ´that´ tense in those sentences

Future Tenses Grammar Guide (Will,Be going to and Present continuous)

This worksheet is designed for A2 (Pre-Intermediate) learners, focusing on future forms (will, be going to, and present continuous*) through engaging content about future jobs. Students will explore new career possibilities like Drone Traffic Controller and Virtual Reality Architect, while practicing how to use future forms to express plans, predictions, and intentions. The lesson starts with a warm-up to spark conversation, followed by a reading section with comprehension questions. A guided discovery approach helps learners understand when to use will versus be going to, while the grammar explanation is supported with exercises. Native speaker notes are included to address common mistakes. The lesson culminates in a creative task-based activity where students brainstorm future jobs, using the target grammar. This makes it ideal for classes focusing on both reading comprehension and future tense forms.

Dream Jobs of the Future: future forms (will, be going to, and present continuous) A2

This game is SO FUN to play with ESL students and practice the future simple. Students will write down questions about the future using the future simple tense or "going to". (Examples: Will I be rich? Am I going to be a nurse?) Then students will watch the video to see a retro Magic 8 Ball give predictions. They have to write down the prediction beside their question in the space provided. Video Link: https://youtu.be/lHfK6Iwind4


The video contains fun magical style music and example questions for inspiration. There are over 40 different predictions, so you can use this game again and again! You can also use this as a speaking activity and each students takes turns asking questions before the answer is revealed. Pause the video if you need more time.

Prediction Game with Future Simple + Going to - Magic 8 Ball - Writing and Speaking Activity with Video

Students have to decide whether to use BE GOING TO or WILL and justify their choice. this ESL worksheet contains a series of traditional grammar drills and exercises.

BE GOING TO or WILL

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

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Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

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Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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69 Going to and will English ESL worksheets pdf & doc