Simple Future Tense and Present Continuous Tense to Talk about New Years

everyone welcome to the english danny  channel and happy new year and today  

we are going to be talking about new year and  about in america at least what we like to do  

after the new year which is set  something called new year's resolutions  

what exactly are new year's resolutions  and how can we talk about them in english  

well new year's resolutions are essentially plans  that you make that improve your life over the  

next year in america we like to set things set a  plan in our life that will uh improve our health  

or some other thing in our life that maybe this  year wasn't so good and that we want to change  

um some popular choices are i think definitely the  number one is go to the gym exercise more often  

eat healthier improve your diet is also very  popular learning about something maybe a language  

like english or a skill if you want to learn  a musical instrument that's very popular  

spending more time with your family maybe getting  a pet or volunteer work these are all very popular  

things to set your resolution for so how can we  talk about our resolutions in day-to-day speech  

if you want to talk about this with your friend if  you ask them what their plan is for the next year  

you're going to be talking about the future so  you have to be using future tenses and there are  

four future texas in english but we really only  use two of them to talk about making plans and  

then there's a third way to talk about the future  as well which we'll talk about later in the video  

so the first way and the easiest way to talk  about the future or to talk about your plans  

is to use simple future tense and this is very  easy it's just i will the word will is a marker  

to show in a sentence that you  are going to talk about the future  

and we can use it to talk about our  plans or even to predict the future  

in the case of resolutions you are predicting your  own future and also showing your own willingness  

and your want to do something some examples of  this in use very easy just i will go to the gym  

i will eat less junk food these are both  very very popular new year's resolutions and  

are very easy to say the other tense that  we can use when we talk about the future  

and ourselves is the present continuous tense  and this is in a phrase will be i will be  

verb in the present tense uh form of the verb  this is used to project ourselves into the  

future and to imagine what we might be doing  at a specific time so some examples of this  

i will be exercising every day in 2020 or i will  be visiting my family every month this year the  

third way that we can talk about the future and  especially new year's resolutions and this is also  

a more informal and natural way to talk uh to  your friends in a conversation is to use the word  

going instead of will so you can use  the word going to talk about your plans  

and this has three parts the first part is the  2b verb conjugated to match the subject so if  

he is the subject you would say he is or she is  i am they are so you have to conjugate the verb  

to be and then paired pair it with  going so you can say i am going  

and the third part is the infinitive  form of the main verb so you can say  

i am going to practice speaking english this year  this shows that you are talking about the future  

and you are making a plan and a commitment to  improve your english and practice this year  

another uh another example of this with a  different subject and verb conjugation is  

they are going to graduate school this year  so you can see that i changed the verb as well  

and at the same time the verb conjugation  to be changed because the subject is they  

the use of going to talk about the future is  mainly used to talk about plans or intentions  

and sometimes even to make predictions about  the future so its usage is very similar  

to just simple future tense i will i am  going to are often used in the same way