Innovative English - Discussing Future Plans

imagine you're being quizzed on your future plans how do you respond hi

Alicia here discussing future plans in English is easy in this lesson you'll

learn how Cousteau and George are catching up at a restaurant let's watch

so Gustavo when will your family be here Louisa is going to bring the kids on

Friday and what are they going to do when they get here Louisa is going to

keep writing she also plans on starting a blog about American culture sounds

interesting how about the kids Sophie is going to go

to an international school half of the classes will be in Portuguese and the

other half in English she's young so she'll learn English easily yeah but

Lucas is going to go to a regular high school could be tough for him will he be

okay we think so he's been studying English a lot at home but it will be

pretty difficult at the beginning I think

now the lesson focused here's how to discuss future plans ready

do you remember how George asks Gustavo what his family members will do when

they arrive to the US and what are they going to do when they get here first is

the phrase what are next is the word they after

this is the phrase going to do and last is the phrase when they get here

together it's what are they going to do when they get here this sentence is

useful when you want to ask about what someone is going to do after they come

to a place for more than one person the structure is what are they going to do

when they get here the structure when asking about one person is what is he or

she going to do when he or she gets here now you try imagine your friend's

brother is moving to your town how do you ask about his plans after that

what is he going to do when he gets here now imagine that you want to ask a

friend what her sisters are going to do when she says they're coming over to her

house

what are they going to do when they get here do you remember how Gustavo

explained Louise's future plans Louise is going to keep writing first is

a contraction of Luiza and is Louise's next is the phrase going to after this

is the word keep and last is the word writing together

it's Luiza is going to keep writing in other words Luiza currently spends her

time writing and will continue to do so in the future the sentence structure is

a person plus is going to keep plus a word ending in ing now you try your

friend Dan has reached the age of retirement but he is going to continue

to work how would you respond to someone if they asked about Dan's future plans

Dan's going to keep working now imagine you are talking to your mother about

your brother you tell her that your brother was rejected from another job he

applied for how would you tell her that he will continue applying

he's going to keep applying do you remember what else Gustavo said about

Louise's future plans she also plans on starting a blog about American culture

first is the word she next is the word also

after this is the phrase plans on and last is the phrase starting a blog

together it's she also plans on starting a blog you can adapt this sentence when

you want to elaborate on a person's future plans the structure is a person

plus also plans on plus a word ending in ing plus additional information now you

try imagine you want to tell someone that

your friend Dan is also going to learn Chinese

dan also plans on learning Chinese now imagine that your brother is also going

to work part-time while he continues to apply to jobs how would you explain this

to your mother

he also plans on working part-time

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