Optional homework: Ask students to prepare a short paragraph on their

future plans for study, hobbies, marriage, etc. (Use of 'going to'). Ask them to
write out a few predictions about the future of their lives, the country, the
current political party, etc. (future with 'will')

World Tour
If your class comes from all around the world, have each
person plan a trip to a city in his home country for the
whole class. Each person should take three to five minutes
to share with the class what they will do on the trip.

he slight differences in English is therefore strange to them.

I tell them the WILL YOU MARRY ME story!  :) It makes them laugh a lot because
they are shy!

Let´s say Billy wants to marry Ivana.

He comes to her and asks her if she will marry him. Because he is NOT sure
what she will respond he asks with WILL: "Will you marry me?"

She is delighted and responds "Yes, I will!"

He goes home and knowing that she accepted and more sure that it will
happen he tells his father with the Going to "Dad, me and Ivana, we are
going to get married!"

Arrangements begin and Billy calls his best friend and tells him when and
where: "John me and Ivana are getting married 3rd November!" and again
asks an insecure question "Will you be my best man?" :)

Before that I tell them the most important with funny examples.  

Will is the most insecure! That´s why it is of course for:

- offers ("Shall I help you carry the bags?)

 - promises (because they are rarely ever kept :))

- predictions in a distant future (because you are not sure what will really happen
"Some day I will be a millionaire")

- instant decisions without planning before (cafe bar - "I will have a Coca Cola")

GOING TO is for:

- plans and arrangements ("I plan to save money")

- predictions in the near future when it is already certain that something is going to
happen (You see a boy on a bike heading for a tree. It is not difficult to predict that
"He is going to crash!" :))

- planned decisions (cafe bar - "My stomach hurts. I am going to have some tea")

PRESENT CONTINUOUS is the most secure of all three Future Tenses! It is for

plans and arrangements when already set a specific time and place! (I am going to
the cinema tonight.")

And again draw a table:

       WILL                         GOING TO                PRESENT CONTINUOUS

    promise, offer                      /                                         /

   prediction 50%             prediction 99%                             /

 instant decision             planned decision                            /

                                             plan                        plan (time and place)

Shall
'Shall' is used mainly in the forms 'shall I?' and 'shall we?' in British English. These
forms are used when you want to get someone's opinion, especially for offers and
suggestions.

 Shall I open the window? (= Do you want me to open the window?)

 Where shall we go tonight? (= What's your opinion?)