A selection of English ESL will or going to printables

In this lesson plan for adults and teens, students watch a short video and do a listening exercise about healthy lifestyles. They also learn and practise healthy lifestyle and illness vocabulary.  

Health and Illnesses

Students can practice using 'going to' and 'will'. Exercises include find the mistakes and create sentences based on problems and solutions. The worksheet is based on the Harry Potter world.

Future exercises with Harry Potter

This worksheet is intended for intermediate-level students (B1) and focuses on a comprehensive approach to learning future tenses (will vs. going to) through engaging activities. Students will begin with warm-up questions that encourage critical thinking about how technology has shaped sports. Next, they will engage in true or false and multiple choice questions based on a reading passage, helping to reinforce key ideas while developing reading comprehension skills.

 
A vocabulary matching activity ensures that learners grasp the essential terms, and the open-ended questions allow them to express their understanding in their own words. The grammar section takes an inductive learning approach, encouraging students to analyze sentences before diving into detailed explanations of when to use will for predictions, promises, and spontaneous decisions, versus going to for plans and predictions based on evidence.

 
To reinforce learning, students will complete fill-in-the-blank sentences and correct common mistakes. A task-based writing activity invites students to reflect on a past sports event, make predictions using "will," and describe future plans using "going to." For additional practice, students can access a QR code to explore interactive grammar exercises online, allowing for further reinforcement of the lesson's key concepts.

The Future of Sports: will vs going to

Sometimes you are asked a question that you can’t or don’t want to answer. For example if I ask you, "What are you going to do this weekend?" and you say, "I don’t know," you have killed the conversation. To keep the conversation going, you could say, "I’m not sure. What are you going to do this weekend?" In this activity we will practise a technique you can use to keep a conversation going even if someone asks you a difficult or an embarrassing question, or to end the conversation or change the topic. 

Keepers or Killers - Conversation Practise

This worksheet includes rewriting of the sentences using the correct "will" of "be going to" forms and a part which includes choosing "will" or "be going to" forms to complete the sentences the best.

WILL & BE GOING TO 

Complete the sentences using the right form of the future : will, going to, present simple or present continuous

THE FUTURE

ESL exercises about future tenses. Three tasks about will or going to, future simple or future continuous and future perfekt. Review how to make future tenses, improve students' grammar.

Future tenses in English

This is a simple ESL song activity. I tried to avoid the usual "fill-in the gaps" kind of activity, so, if you have some more time to spend, try to play the song before students can read the lyrics, and have them trying to listen how many times they sing "gonna" and "will". Another idea, if they are creative, you can discuss the story in the song. What is she going to do about the situation? How is the boyfriend going to react?


The Beatles - "You're Going to Lose That Girl" - Be Going To or Will

 A game for elementary and pre-intermediate students to practise using ´going to / not going to´. You will need dice & counters for this game. It can be laminated or used in a plastic sleeve. Roll the die and count the spaces. Land on a space and make a sentence with the words given. EVEN numbers: He´s going to eat his lunch. ODD numbers She´s not going to ..

Future Tense Game

Main objective is to help students use the 'be going to' to talk about the future. It helps learners to have a conversation in pairs or groups. The main question is the prompt, for example, if the question is: What are you going to do this weekend? Then the answer will be 'I am going to ...' It can also be used to make predictions about others. For example, 'you are going to ...'

Fortune Teller Game - Predicting the Future with Going to

Different Exercises on tenses - Present simple & Present Continuous, Past Simple or Past Continuous, Past simple or Present Perfect , Will-Future or Going to- Future.

It is a drill worksheet. Unfortunatelly without the key. Print iz out and drill tenses.  

Review of tenses

there's a dialogue which students can use to practice the future tense choosing either will or going to, there are some exercises as well. :) 

Future tense

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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Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

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Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

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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