How to Talk About Future Plans in English

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how to talk about your future plans in

relation

to other future plans so how do you talk

about a sequence of activities

we’re going to cover a couple patterns

in this lesson and we’re also going to

talk

about just some basic future tense

grammar as well

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about in today’s lesson

first we are going to review basic

future tense grammar

going to and will then

i’m going to cover two patterns you can

use

to talk about two plans in one

sentence so that will be part two and

part

three i chose some patterns to practice

today that are very

open so you can be flexible with them

and we’ll talk about how to use them so

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let’s go to part one part one

from today for two day rather basic

future tense grammar let’s review future

tense grammar uh going to

and will classic questions from learners

what is the difference between going to

and will

let’s talk let’s talk about going to

first so i’m going to the store i’m

going to school

what is this for we use going 100

sure decisions i know i’m going to do

this this is my plan

100 we use going to

for a decision made before

the conversation a decision made before

the conversation

so we’re talking now i chose this plan

before i started talking to you i’m not

deciding now

so this is something i decided before

we spoke sometimes we also use

going to for a very strong decision

in the moment so we’ll show examples or

we’ll look at some examples of this now

okay so for example

a plan a 100 sure plan for example

i’m going to go hiking

this weekend i’m going to go hiking

this weekend so i’m 100

sure about this plan you can send your

plans in the chat if you want to if

you’re watching live

another one a negative one he’s not

going to come today he’s not

going to come today so we are 100

sure like he’s not going to come to the

office for example

yeah so 100 sure plan

here is a strong decision

made in the moment let’s imagine this is

a parent talking to

their kid you are not going to

that party you are not going to or you

are not going to go

to that party so 100

sure these decisions and we made them

before the conversation

some of you are sending your examples

nice santiago says i’m going to travel

to italy when the pandemic ends

nice sounds good i would like to travel

i very much like to travel

other ones uh franklin jose says i am

going don’t forget your i’m

yeah not i going i am going i’m going to

the beach

next week very nice i am jealous okay

how about adding 30 minutes to your live

stream no can do

30 minutes only we got a team situation

here i’m gonna work

uh 10 hours every day on this project

okay i’m going to

work 10 hours good okay let’s go then

to will what’s the deal with will so

what is different

between will and going to we use will

for like unsure decisions for example

when we want to make like a guess about

the future future future like

what will earth be like 10 000 years

from now

for example we’re not sure that’s an

extreme example

but when we’re not sure about something

or

when we make the decision in the

conversation we decide in the

conversation so

i did not start talking to you with a

plan

but i decide now while we’re talking

so let’s look at some examples like this

one

maybe i’ll have a salad

for lunch maybe i’ll have

a salad for lunch here’s my will maybe i

will

i’ve contracted it yeah i will becomes

i’ll

maybe i’ll have a salad for lunch so

i use this because my decision is unsure

yeah

i haven’t decided yet i don’t know yet

but i’m thinking maybe i’ll have a salad

for lunch

okay here’s another one she’ll probably

call later she’ll probably call

later so again we’re not sure we’re

making a guess

about the future she’ll probably in this

case it’s not a decision from the person

it’s someone else’s decision we’re

making a guess when is she going to call

well she’ll probably call later so

the key here will is used for things

we’re not sure about

and we make the decision in that moment

going to is for a plan we already

decided

yeah okay okay i’m looking for your

examples now

uh alaratam is the present continuous

also used to talk about the future we

can use that ing

verb form yeah like i’m going to the

supermarket that’s a bad example with

going to

but for example i’m walking to the

supermarket after work you could say

that yeah if you wanted to

okay uh i’m going to go home

in 40 minutes uh hijaz cozy on facebook

i’m going

home not i’m going to home i’m going

home in

40 minutes okay all right good

uh let’s go to a break and then we’ll go

to part

two we will look or rather we’re going

to look

at some patterns that you can use to put

them together uh to put

sequences of your future plans together

yeah

so i hope you have lots of questions and

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pattern one so i chose uh two focus

patterns for today

to talk about sequences of future plans

and

we’ll talk about some variations with

these two okay

first let’s look at this pattern after

i verb phrase a

i future tense verb phrase

be so after i hmm i

hm okay that’s the kind of rhythm of

this pattern

also of course here i have i you can of

course use he

or she or we but to practice today let’s

use i

okay so let’s look at an example

and break this down after

i finish work today

i’m going to meet a friend after i

finish work today

i’m going to meet a friend so the first

action finish work

second action meet a friend what is the

grammar here

after i finish work today so note this

verb finish this is not finishing not

after i finishing or not after i

finished we don’t use that here after i

finish so no change to this verb yeah

just the base

verb form after i finish work today

here is my future tense verb phrase we

just practiced

going to and will yeah in this case

i’m going to meet a friend after i

finish work today i’m going to meet a

friend

so this use of going to

shows the speaker made the plan before

the conversation

yeah it’s also correct to say after i

finish work today

i think i’ll meet a friend you could say

that too

both are correct but this choice going

to or will

changes the feeling of this sentence

okay

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let’s see uh javier after finishing is

it correct

after finishing work today yeah you

could say that after finishing work

today

i’m going to meet a friend that’s fine

okay

uh let’s see what’s the difference

between about two and going to

uh about two refers to something that

you are

planning to do in the very near future

yeah

uh okay after i write this report let’s

go to the next one after i

write this report i’ll probably eat

lunch so after i write this report i’ll

probably

eat lunch again this verb right here

no change in this verb do not use past

tense for this verb

after i wrote no after i wrote this

report i’ll probably eat lunch

not correct for this pattern after i

write this report

i’ll i’ll so here i’m using will

i’ll probably eat lunch

you can use this probably to show the

level

of certainty so you can say after i

finish this report i’ll eat lunch

that sounds i just decided now this is

my plan after i

write this report i’ll probably eat

lunch

that shows there’s a chance a small

chance

you might do something else yeah so

probably shows you’re not 100

sure okay i’m looking for your questions

libra says after i finish lunch i’m

going to campus

very nice after i finish lunch i’m going

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la fanda says after i finish class after

i finish class i’m going to watch

a movie after i finish class i’m going

to watch a

movie okay um

karina says after the live stream

finishes yeah after the livestream

finishes

i’m going to go to bed good after the

livestream finishes i’m going to go to

bed so in that case yes

uh your live stream in place of eye

after uh the live stream finishes i’m

going to go

to bed okay on to this one

i’ll wash the dishes after i eat i’ll

wash the dishes

after i eat so in this pattern

or rather in this example sentence i

changed the order yeah

in this one my future tense verb phrase

is here in the beginning i’ll wash the

dishes

my after clause here is at the end

this is fine so why do we choose

which one how do i choose which one to

use what do you

want the focus to be in this sentence

i’ll wash the dishes after i eat we’re

showing

kind of that’s that’s my focus in my

mind right now

you could say after i eat i’ll wash the

dishes also

100 correct it’s up to you for the

feeling you want

in your sentence yeah okay cool

uh all right i want to mention a note

then this note here

sometimes sometimes you might hear

present perfect

used in the after clause you might hear

this

uh occasionally and i feel like it might

be slightly more common in british

english i speak american english

so you might hear this let’s look at an

example

after i’ve done my homework

i’ll email it to my teacher

after i’ve done my homework i’ll email

it to my teacher so i’ll email my

homework to my teacher after i’ve done

my homework maybe assignment

i’ll email it to my teacher why does

this person use after

i’ve done here what’s the deal so

this is less common this is not as

common as something like this you

again you might hear it usually it’s

this pattern we talked about

but you may hear this to show

how the after clause after i’ve done my

homework in this case

affects the second future tense action

so in this case these two actions have a

very close relationship yeah

after i’ve done my homework like my

homework assignment

is the thing i’m going to email to my

teacher right

so there’s a close like cause and effect

relationship here

you might sometimes hear people

using this uh present perfect

pattern here after i’ve done my homework

but again this one is more common

this one we just practiced here okay

all right so other examples are coming

in victor says i’ll play my guitar after

i watch the class after i watch the

class

okay um

let’s see you n peng i will go to bed

after i

listen to you speak after i listen to

you

speak okay so verb phrase to you speak

okay uh mitt says after i finish

uh study oh after i finish

maybe my studies today or after i finish

studying we need that noun there yeah

finished studying today

i’m going to meet my boyfriend good okay

um

good good good okay lots of good

examples are coming in

let’s go to um our our second pattern

our last pattern for today then

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and thus yeah your articles lots of

people are saying i’ll make a coffee

after i watch

class or i’ll make uh sorry that one

mohammed yours is fine i’ll make a

coffee after

i watch the class that’s fine some

people are writing

after uh after i watch uh

class or something like that don’t

forget to put those little articles in

there yeah or i’ll watch

movie i think i saw a couple of those

too i’ll watch

a movie don’t forget your articles okay

let’s go to the next pattern

i wanted to practice a pattern that is

commonly used

in with negatives yeah i know we

practice

lots of positive sentences but it’s

important to practice making

negative sentences yeah so let’s look at

this one

this one features unless unless

so here’s the super basic pattern i

future tense verb phrase a

unless verb phrase be

in this pattern we use the negative

quite a lot

so let’s look at an example what does

this look like

here i’m not going to talk to him

unless he sends me a message

i’m not going to talk to him unless he

sends me a message

so what is the sequence here in this

situation

i’m saying i’m going to wait

so after another way to say this

sentence is

after i receive a message from him i’ll

talk to him

but i want to i use this negative

pattern this i’m not going to talk to

him

unless he sends me a message to show

this this part he sends me a message

this must be true this must be true

after that i will do this but

this pattern uses the negative i’m not

going to do this

unless this thing happens this other

thing happens so if this does not happen

if he does not send me a message i’m not

going to talk to him

okay let’s look at another example

here’s one you might hear in speech

we’ll

probably finish work at six today

unless our manager gives us more to do

we’ll probably finish work at six today

unless our manager gives us more to do

so this means we think this is our plan

we’ll probably finish work today

unless this use here

means there’s a possibility that the

manager will give us something

else to do so we’re saying this is true

but maybe there’s a chance something

else will happen

we’ll probably finish work at six today

unless our manager gives us more

to do okay so these other conditions

we’re introducing other possibilities

here yeah

okay uh nohorah says i’m not

going to learn english unless i practice

a lot

nice okay yolanda says i’m not waiting

for him

unless he waits for me too good very

close i’m not waiting for him unless he

waits for me

to okay good um

all right let’s go to another example

here’s the business one

you’re not going to get a loan unless

you write a business plan you’re not

going to get a loan

unless you write a business plan so

this one here is my requirement yeah

so i have to this is my responsibility

i have to write a business plan in order

to get along

we express this with the negative

pattern

you’re not going to get alone unless so

that means you must do this

this condition must be true for this

to be possible you’re not going to get a

loan

unless you write a business plan so in

other words

you must write a business plan in order

to get a loan

okay cue one more all right

time’s going quick he’s probably

not going to accept the job offer

unless the company provides

an attractive salary he’s probably

not going to accept the job offer

unless the company provides an

attractive

salary so again we have this negative

here

probably not going to accept so low

chance yeah

he’s probably not going to accept the

job offer

unless so this means this is the

condition

the company provides an attractive

salary so attractive salary means a

number

a money right for payment that looks

good

right unless the company provides an

attractive salary

so a different way to say this sentence

is

if the company provides an attractive

salary

he might accept the job offer right

but we use this negative pattern to

express this to express that

this this condition is really important

to him yeah so these are different ways

different feelings

different uh uh kind of nuances we can

give to our sentences

by using these negative patterns so

unless is a good one

okay uh trang nguyen says the customer

isn’t going to meet us unless we have a

specific

proposal just use a specific proposal

yeah not any

close nice one though customer isn’t

going to meet us unless we have a specif

a special sorry special proposal very

nice very nice

okay caesar cesar says you are not going

to get a cake unless you pay me

priorities yeah love it great example

that was perfect grammatically perfect i

really like that thanks for sending that

cracked me up okay victor very close i’m

not going to accept this contract

unless you pay me more pay me so this

one

this verb this verb phrase unless you

pay me so not past tense there yeah

then it’s perfect unless you pay me more

okay

uh let’s see other ones

juan carlos says i am not going to get

the certificate

unless i pass the exam very nice

sentences everybody

good good good okay um all right

i think we’ll finish there for today

then so those were a couple

patterns you can use to talk about your

future plans in sequence like

in relationship to one another i’ll show

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going to and will uh after i do

something i’ll do something else

and i won’t do something unless

something else alright so we covered

this today

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