2. We are going to buy tickets for the Sudoeste Festival

Future with the 'be going to' form

This form is composed of three elements: the appropriate form of the verb 'to be' + 'going to' + the infinitive of the main verb:

 

Subject
Verb to Be
 Going to
 bare infinitive complements
We are going to buy tickets for the Sudoeste festival
Paco isn't going to travel to Cambodia
Are
you
 going to visit Vietnam?


In topic 2 we will study the different uses of this tense.

 

Icono de iDevice Solved exercise
In the initial story there are three sentences using the 'be going to' future either in the affirmative or interrogative, can you write them in the other two forms?
  1. He is going to travel to Saigon.

2- We are going to buy tickets for the Sudoeste festival in Portugal.


3- Are you going to visit Vietnam?

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Watch and listen to this video about these people's plans. Pay attention to the intonation.

 



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Punjabi girl
By Noor Khan- Creative commons
The Pakistani women of today enjoy a better status than most Muslim and Middle Eastern women. However, on an average, the women's situation vis-à-vis men is one of systemic subordination, although there have been attempts by the government and enlightened groups to elevate the status of women in Pakistani society.

 

Click here to read this article about notable women in Pakistani history.

 



You can also use the present continuous to express future as you will see in next section....
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