How do I choose between will, going to, and present continuous?

Use the context around the verb. Going to usually signals an existing intention or evidence you can see now. Will commonly follows an opinion or expresses an immediate decision, offer, or promise. Present continuous describes an arrangement with specific future details such as a person, place, or time.

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Future Forms Dictation: Plans, Predictions and Arrangements

B1 Level

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Future forms help speakers distinguish intentions, predictions, immediate decisions and fixed arrangements. In this B1 dictation, listen for going to after an earlier decision or present evidence, will for an opinion, immediate response, offer or promise, and the present continuous for an arrangement with clear future details. Time phrases and the surrounding situation reveal why each form is used.

Type the complete sentence rather than only the future phrase. Notice contracted auxiliaries such as I'll, we're, aren't and won't. Punctuation is not scored, and safe expanded contractions are accepted, but the auxiliary, verb form and word order must match the saved British English audio.

Future Form Map

Context → form → example

1.earlier plan or present evidence → going to → That glass is going to fall.
2.opinion, immediate decision, offer or promise → will → I'll answer it now.
3.fixed future arrangement → present continuous → We're meeting tomorrow morning.