LIFE PLANS

 GRAMMAR: Was / Were going to and would.

It is a form used to tell a plan or forecast for the future that you had in the past. And it is done with was/were going to + infinitive.

This is the past tense of am/is/are going to, which talks about the future plans we have now.

Examples.

• He was going to the dance, but he stayed working until night.
• My family was going on a trip to San Andres, the trip was not made because my younger sister got sick.
• Maria believed she would live in Medellin because of her husband's job.
• Andres thought about living in Santa Marta for university.
• Ana thought she would go to her grade, but that day she was sick.
• I was going to call you but my phone was out of battery.
• We saw that it was going to rain and we didn't go out to the park.