Tips For Speaking English...

*Tips For Speaking English

*Making Predictions

*Predictions:

*When making predictions (what we think will happen in the future) we can either use:

*will followed by the verb without to,

or going to followed by the verb

-------------------------------|----------------------
What (do you think)|  will happen?
                                    | ----------------------
                                    |  is going to
                                    |          happen?
———————————|————————

--------------------|---------------------------------
                       |       will ...
                       |
(I think) ...     |      won't ...
                       |
                       |       is going to ...
                       |
                       |       isn't going to ...
--------------------|-------------------------------------

*Examples of making predictions:

"What do you think *will happen* next year?"

"Next week *is going to be* very busy, I think."

"There *won't be* a rise in house prices next year."

"He *isn't going to win* the election."

*Things to remember about making predictions*

"He *won't do* it" is the short form of " he *will not do* it.