How to Talk About Future Plans in English!

hi everybody and welcome back to our weekly live stream my name is alicia and in this week's live lesson we are going to talk about 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 so as you joined please don't forget to hit the like button and of course share this video so that other learners can find today's lesson that would be super super cool while we wait for people to join us live a couple of short announcements as always first it's about this banner at the bottom of the screen there is free stuff for you to download from the link below the video if you're watching on youtube or above the video if you are watching on facebook if you click the link you will find this page right here where you can download all of the pdfs that i show you every week these ones here i show you all 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name in tai i can't read it sorry hello you said good morning sharifah hello cool everyone is here welcome today's lesson boards let's take a look this is what we're going to talk 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 let's begin i'm going to share the video uh okay cool i've shared it and now i will begin you please like and share as well you could like it that's awesome that helps okay 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 examples and we can review together yeah if you're watching live okay um super super quickly reminder if you missed it earlier there is free stuff for you from the link below the video if you're watching on youtube above the video if you're 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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 all right you can send your questions in the chat 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 to campus please make a video of vocabulary words and phrases please use your search skills on our channel that is what our channel is for there are so many videos and vocabulary words and phrases okay um 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 all right quick reminder don't forget hit like it helps other people find the lesson okay your examples are looking good a lot of people are forgetting uh one point for many people who are watching a lot of people don't forget your little uh and 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 you the lesson boards one more time so you can take a picture if you like ready go here you go so if you want to take a picture we talked about 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 and of course there are some videos on the english class 101 youtube channel i have many videos about future tense and conditionals too so use your excellent search skills if you want some more information uh there okay uh next week's lesson information let's take a look what is the deal with next week next week next week's lesson will be june 16th wednesday june 16th at 10 pm eastern standard time it is new york city time that is new york city time if you don't know your local time please google it or set a notification on youtube send a notification on facebook or if you follow me on instagram i always share a link and a topic reminder in my stories you can check the link in the description to find me there next week i'm going to talk about prepositions for transportation like on in and by in particular so i'm going to talk about uh the the prepositions we use a lot when we're talking about movement like taking a car or bus or plane or bicycle whatever when we're talking about transport so i hope that this will be a good everyday life lesson of course so please join me next week for that okay uh what else uh oh wow i can't believe it i'm on time today how about that so i will say goodbye for this week uh thank you everybody for your great questions and for your awesome example sentences and don't forget to pick up the free pdfs from the link below the video if you're watching on youtube or above the video if you're watching on facebook and if you want to find me on instagram or on twitter you can find those links also the link to send me your questions please please please send me your questions for the question and answer series you can find that in the youtube description too so enjoy the rest of your day have a

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