25 Will and be going to A Introduction Emma: Aunt Joan: Emma: Aunt Joan: WILL It's my birthday soon. I'll be twenty next Friday. Oh, really? Are you going to have a party? I'm going to have a meal in a restaurant with a few friends. That'll be nice. BE GOING TO Will has a neutral meaning. We use it to talk about facts in the future. I'll be twenty next Friday. The spacecraft will come down in the Pacific Ocean tomorrow morning. We use be going to for an intention, something we have already decided to do. We're going to have a meal. Tom is going.
