When to use GOING TO

The structure BE GOING TO is normally used to indicate the

future but with some type of connection to the present. We use
it in the following situations:
1. When we have already decided or we INTEND to do
something in the future. (Prior Plan)
The decision has been made before the moment of speaking.
•They're going to retire to the beach - in fact they have
already bought a little beach house.
•I'm going to accept the job offer.
2. When there are definite signs that something is going to
happen. (Evidence)
Something is likely to happen based on the evidence or
experience you have.
•I think it is going to rain - I just felt a drop.
•I don't feel well. I think I'm going to throw up. (throw up =
vomit)
3. When something is about to happen:
•Get back! The bomb is going to explode.
We can use going to to talk about arrangements (eg. ‘I’m
going to have dinner with Craig on Thursday’), but it is
especially good for something we have decided to do but have
not arranged to do.
For example: ‘I’m going to clean my house today.’ – We have
decided to clean our house, but it’s not something we have
arranged like our dinner with Craig.
Another example:
A: ‘Are you going to eat your chips?’
B: ‘No, I’m full. You can have them.’
Another way that we use ‘Going to’ is for predictions that we
feel sure about. We say that something is ‘going to happen’.
For example, you look up at the sky and see dark clouds. You
say: ‘Look at those clouds, it’s going to rain!’
The important thing here is that you feel certain about it.
When to use WILL
In other cases, where there is no implicit or explicit connection to the
present, use WILL:
1. For things that we decide to do now. (Rapid Decisions)
This is when you make a decision at that moment, in a spontaneous
way.
•I'll buy one for you too.
•I think I'll try one of those. (I just decided this right now)
2. When we think or believe something about the future.
(Prediction)
•My team will not win the league this season.
•I think it will rain later so take an umbrella with you.
Note: You can use both Will and Going to for making future
predictions.
3. To make an offer, a promise or a threat.
•I'll give you a discount if you buy it right now.
•I promise I will behave next time.
•I'll take you to the movies if you'd like.
4. You use WON'T when someone refuses to do something.
•I told him to take out the trash but he won't do it.
•My kids won't listen to anything I say.
•My car won't start.

•https://www.grammar.cl/Notes/Future_Will_vs_Going.htm
 In English, talking about the future isn’t as
simple as saying ‘will’ before the verb. We use
‘will’ (or ‘shall’) to make predictions, promises,
offers, threats and to talk about spontaneous
decisions. But most of the time when we talk
about the future, we are talking about our plans
and about scheduled events. To talk about these
things, we don’t use ‘will’. We use present
tenses.

The present tenses we can use to talk about the future are
the Present Continuous and the Present Simple:
• The Present Continuous is [noun/pronoun] + be
+ [verb+ing]. For example: ‘I am talking’,
‘David is talking’, or ‘The people are talking’.
• The Present Simple is simply [noun/pronoun] +
[verb]. For example: ‘I drive’ or ‘David drives’.
When we talk about things we have already decided and
arranged to do, we use the Present Continuous tense.

For example, if we talk about our summer holiday plans,

even though the summer is in the future, we say:

‘This summer I’m going to Mexico. I’m

leaving Scotland on the third of August.’

We don’t say: ‘This summer I will go to Mexico.’

We say it like this because we have already arranged to

do it.

More examples:
• ‘I’m not working tomorrow – let’s go hiking!’
• ‘What are you doing this weekend?’
• ‘David and Lucy are going on a date this
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