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Be going to is used to express future intentions that, at the moment of speaking, have already been decided:

We are going to redecorate the living room next week.
Are you going to propose to her?
Do you think Sam's going to apply for the job?

Future simple for intentions (offers, promises and decisions)

The future simple tense is used to express future intentions that are decided at the time of speaking (spontaneous offers, promises and decisions):

We can use modals other than will in the main clause of a sentence in the first conditional: