Contractions of "will" and "going to"

Now that you know the uses of "will" and "going to" you have to know the contractions of them

A contraction is when words are shortened. examples of contractions are:

It/he/she is----->It's/he's/she's

They/we/you are---->They're/we're/you're

I am---->I'm

got to---->gotta

see you---->cya

Lot's of contractions are only for informal use like "gotta" or "cya" this means you're not supposed to tell your boss "cya later!" or use them in any formal situations, but most of this contractions are for any use.

Now, "will" has a contraction which is "'ll" for example:

I will go surfing---->I'll go surfing

He will play the guitar tonight---->He'll play the guitar tonight

and so on...She'll/it'll/we'll/They'll/you'll.

"Going To" has an informal contraction which is "gonna", technically is writing how "going to" sounds when you say it fast, try it yourself, say "going to" as fast as you can 10 times and you'll see!

Examples:

I'm going to win the race----> I'm gonna win the race

She's going to marry me!----> She's gonna marry me!

and so on...

Now you're going to make a dialog in pairs in which you'll have to use "will" and "going to". The dialog must have at least 2 predictions and 3 future plans, and at least 2 of them must have the contracted form of "will" and "going to".

Good luck!

Making predictions

Now that you know how to use "will" and "going to" to speak about your future plans it's time for you to learn how to make predictions using them.

Prediction is a way of forecasting something, in other words, tell something that will happen before it does. for example:

Tom:-"tomorrow is going to rain"---->Here, Tom is making a prediction about the weath

er, he says it's going to be rainy tomorrow.

you can also make predictions using the negative form of will, which is "WON'T" for example:

Sam:-"You're wrong Tom, tomorrow it won't rain"---->Sam is telling Tom that it's not going to rain tomorrow, so he uses the negative form of will (won't) to tell Tom that his prediction is wrong and at the same time make his own prediction which is that tomorrow is not going to rain.

Now, make your own predictions about the following:

Your studies by the end of the week

This year Christmas presents

The world crisis

When you've done that make a prediction about the end of the world at 2012, but first check this video trailer of the movie 2012 so you have an idea of what some people think will happen...I have to wanr you.. this video is really spooky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz86TsGx3fc

Welcome

As the title says WELCOME to my blog. Here you'll be able to learn a bit more on how to use future tenses correctly in English Language with a very interesting topic....YOUR FUTURE PLANS!

Everybody has plans about the future, maybe you want to travel in a few months, maybe you want to work in NASA in a couple of years, or maybe you're going to shut this window a have a cup of coffee... All those are future plans and now you'll be able to learn how to share yours with us IN ENGLISH!

There are two ways of telling your future plans... the first one is using "going to" and the other one is using "will" the structure for "going to" is the following:
And the structure of "will" is the shown below:

Now that you know how to express your future plans, tell me! make an entry on this topic of the blog telling me what are your plans when you graduate, what are you going to do this weekend and what are you planning to do next year. Remeber to use the structure showed in the charts.
Good Luck!