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A short video on"Going to do"
Level: Pre-Intermediate (easy)

Teachers, please explain this to your beginner students:

How to use Real English

1) Watch the video without subtitles. This is always the first video at the top of a lesson page. This is an example of a lesson page.

2 - Click on the Exercise 1 button:

and do all the exercises! Speak when you see this:

(this is just a picture, it is not active). Click on the red button to record. Speak into your microphone according to the model. Click on the play button (on the left) to listen to yourself. Also click on this button:

 

listen to the teacher. Then listen to yourself. Listen to the teacher again. Record again. Compare again.

3 - Come back to this page and watch the video with subtitles.

Introduction of a verb structure we will soon see in more detail.



You can also use the present progressive for actions in the near future. For example, "She is meeting her boyfriend in a bar tonight" is the same as "She is going to meet her boyfriend in a bar tonight".