Future forms: evidence, plans, arrangements and spontaneous decisions

Chuẩn biên tập: Kết nối tri thức với cuộc sống – giải thích bằng bằng chứng và kiểm thử.

🗓️ Several routes to future time

Will often marks a decision made now, an offer or opinion-based prediction. Be going to commonly marks prior intention or prediction from present evidence.

• Present continuous: concrete personal arrangement — “I’m meeting Lan at 3.”
• Present simple: official timetable — “The train leaves at 6:10.”
• Going to: prior intention or visible evidence.
• Will: decision at the moment of speaking or an opinion.

⚠️ Future time clauses

After when, before, after, as soon as, until, normally use a present form: “I’ll call when I arrive,” not “when I will arrive.”