BE GOING TO VS. PRESENT PROGRESSIVE - AS FUTURE FORMS

Be going to vs. present progressive for future forms

For the following questions, these are your choices:
a. only one choice is correct
b. both are correct
think if the answers are plans or predictions with evidence

Multiple Select

I __________ Japanese next summer.

• am going to study

• am studying

I am going to study / am studying Japanese next summer.
This is a plan-
which means both are correct

Multiple Select

Jean and Sara___ dinner at that expensive restaurant this evening

• are going to have

• are having

Jean and Sara are going to have dinner at that expensive
Jean and Sara are dinner at that expensive restaurant this evening.

both are correct!

both are plans

Multiple Select

What ___ this summer?

• are you doing

• are you going to do

What are you going to do / are you doing this summer?  

​Both forms can be used as PLANS

Multiple Choice

If you are so rude, like you just were with that boy over there, nobody ___ to you very soon

• is talking

• is going to talk

If you are so rude like you just were with that boy over there, nobody is going to talk you very soon.

​this is a prediction- not a plan

you can´t use present progressive if it´s a prediction

Multiple Choice

Choose the sentence that best describes what is about to happen in the future

• He is falling

• He is going to fall

it´s a prediction

​He is going to fall.

You can´t use PRESENT PROGRESSIVE WITH PREDICTIONS

Dropdown

He ​

Select answer

without paying the bill at the restaurant.  

He will leave without paying the bill at the restaurant.  

this is a prediction without evidence.
it´s not a plan - WE DON´T USE PRESENT PROGRESSIVE FOR PREDICTIONS .

if you use "present progressive", it mean he is leaving NOW