 Hello everyone, how are you today? This is Marc. I'm doing just great. Thanks for asking. A cyberattack will hack into your computer and destroy all your data. I will help you with those bags. When this lesson is over, I'll go to the gym to work out. The new president of the United States will definitely create new jobs. This summer he's going to visit his aunt in Morocco. Look, the swallows are back. It's going to be spring soon. Her boss is having a meeting with the employees in the afternoon. Our train leaves at 2 p.m. In this lesson we're going to look at the future. So stay tuned. So why is it that students find the future difficult in English? Well for one thing there are four futures. So the future simple will go into present continuous or present progressive and the present simple or simple present. For another is that any reference you make about a future action is usually or generally an indication of what you think might occur or what you plan to happen. Now this sounds a little bit confusing. I'm going to try to show it to you this explanation by introducing two timelines. One which represents going to and the other one represents will. So in the first one with going to there is a cross in the past with a cross in the future. This indicates a planned action. So going to is we use going to for an action that I thought about it in the past for a future for a future action. In the meantime we have will and in this case we have the cross of now and the timeline and then a cross in the future. This will indicate a spontaneous action. Let's take a look at the examples and the rules. Okay I said that we're going to talk about going to will, present continuous or progressive and the present simple. If you wish to look at other futures like future perfect you may click here. Now will is not always used for future actions. Yes it can be used also for the present. For example general truths and that was my first example. A cyber attack will hack into your computer and destroy all your data. So this is a general truth and is a present action. It doesn't have anything to do with the future. I'm going to dedicate this part of the explanation of will in another lesson. So let's take a look at the second one and the most important one that I already mentioned is for spontaneous actions. So let's see I have a lady in front of me and I see she's carrying a heavy bag. So I say to her I'll, I will, I'll help you with those bags. Spontaneous action for the future or the phone rings and I say okay I'll answer it. Okay this is for spontaneous actions. Now let's take a look at the third rule. We use will for the first conditional. When this lesson is over I'll go to the gym. Now if you want to review the first conditional or the conditionals you may click here. For predictions based on opinions so is my opinion about a future event or something that will happen is a prediction. For example the new president of the United States will definitely create new jobs. This is my prediction, is my opinion or I think, I think he'll beat me at our next tennis match. So this is my opinion so that's why I say I think I'll do something. Remember that will usually is a contracted with apostrophe double L and we pronounce I'll heal. For example for a negative will plus not is won't. Okay I won't do it if you're saying something to your friends and your friend tells you okay do this do that I won't do it. Now let's take a look at going to. Going to I said that is planned. This summer he's going to visit his aunt in Morocco. In this case obviously he had planted before telling you this right so he's going to visit his aunt in Morocco. I'm going to visit my friend in Spain for example this summer this is what I had thought about before telling you so it's an action that I thought in the past for the future. Let's take a look at the second rule predictions that you can actually see. Look the swallows are back the swallows the birds is going to be spring soon okay you know that when you see this type of verse spring is coming or another example the sun has just sets it's going to get dark soon is going to get dark soon obviously because you can see it so it's a prediction based on something that you can actually see so this is about going to what about the present continuous or present progressive some people ask me if we can use the present continuous and the answer is yes there is however a little difference and the little difference is that we use the present continuous or the present progressive for fixed arrangements so for example the boss is having a meeting in the afternoon I said I think is having I could have said the boss is going to have a meeting in the afternoon is the same I can say that is the same we use the present continuous for the future a lot now the present simple instead we use it for timetables so for a train timetable or a plane timetable so the train leaves at 2 p.m so this is future but the present simple is used here to indicate the future for example so the train leaves at 2 p.m now let's recap in this lesson we looked at the future future simple will go into present continuous progressive and present simple or simple present it is important you remember the difference between a planned action using going to and the spontaneous action using will I suggest you watch the lesson once more so that you have a better idea and a clear idea about the future the future can be tricky in English so that's why I suggest to watch the lesson once twice three times more that's it for today if you want to post your own example you may type it under this video if you haven't subscribed to my channel please do so you'll get a new lesson next week please if you like the lesson share it it's really important for me have a great day and I see you next week take care bye bye