Question bank: Verbs: Future with Going to and Will

Imagine you are talking to a friend about your plans for the weekend and how you envision your life in ten years. Write a conversation between you and your friend using appropriate uses of 'going to' and 'will' to discuss both short-term and long-term plans. Additionally, explain your choice of using 'going to' or 'will' in at least two instances during the conversation.

Imagine you are planning a charity event to raise funds for an organization that helps stray animals. Write a brief speech in English to promote the event, using future phrases with 'going to' and 'will' to describe your actions and expected results. Explain, in an additional paragraph, the difference in usage between 'going to' and 'will' to express the future in English, considering both intention and instant decision. Compare and contrast these uses with contextualized examples in your speech.

Consider the following dialogue between two friends, Mary and John, discussing their plans for the upcoming holidays. Mary is excited about her planned trip to Australia, and John is planning to stay at home to finish his novel. Based on their conversation, formulate a sentence that accurately portrays both Mary's and John's future plans using the correct forms of 'going to' and 'will'. Remember to consider the rules of usage for 'going to' and 'will' in expressing future actions and intentions.

You are an intern at a multinational corporation that has branches worldwide. Your boss, a non-native English speaker, has drafted an email to inform the team about a strategic meeting that will take place next month. He has asked you to revise the email before sending it. He wrote: 'We are will hold a strategic meeting next month to discuss the company's future. I'm going to expect everyone to be present.' Identify the mistake in the use of the future tense in the given sentence and suggest the correct form.

In a recent United Nations climate conference, two young activists, Maria from Brazil and Li from China, are invited to give speeches about their future plans to combat climate change in their respective countries. In their speeches, Maria and Li use the future forms 'going to' and 'will' to express their intentions. Based on your understanding of these two future forms in English, identify the correct sentence that could be part of either Maria’s or Li’s speech.