Ex. 54 Put the verbs in brackets into the Future Continuous Tense

Ex. 53 Read the dialogue and pick out the verbs in the Future Continuous (Progressive) Tense. Comment on their use. Ask and answer questions of different types about the people's activities

Practice

Formation

Unit 4 The Future Continuous Tense

The Future Continuous is formed with shall/will+be+ing-form

He will be delivering lectures the whole morning tomorrow.

He will not be delivering lectures the whole morning tomorrow.

Will he be delivering lectures the whole morning tomorrow?

The Future Continuous Tense denotes:

1.An action or event that will be in progress at a definite moment in the future. This future moment is indicated either by an adverbial phrase, (at 2 p.m., at this time tomorrow, etc.) or by another future action (usually in the Present Simple or the Present Continuous in clauses of time).

At four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon we'll be flying over Vienna.

I'll be waiting at the station when you arrive.

We'll be travelling in Italy while the children are staying with their

grandparents (two parallel future actions).

When will you be moving?

2.An action or state that will be going on over a period of time in the future indicated by adverbial phrases such as all evening, during holidays, from October to November, for the next few weeks, etc.

I'll be living in London for three weeks next summer.

The Browns will be staying at my place all weekend.

How long will she be working abroad?

3. A future action viewed by the speaker as part of aregular routine (a matter-of-course event), which does not need any special arrangement. In this case a definite future moment or a future period may not be indicated.

- Will you be going anywhere near the post-office today?

- Yes, I'll be passing the post-office on my way home from work.

- Now that Nick is in Helen's department they will be seeing a lot of each other.

The peculiarity of the Future Continuous Tense is clearly seen when we compare it with the Future Simple and the Present Continuous Tenses:

I'll see him about it tomorrow. (a promise or a decision)

I'm seeing him about it tomorrow. (a pre-arranged plan)

I’ll be seeing him about it tomorrow. (a matter-of-course event)

Note that enquiries about future actions in the Future Continuous Tense sound less straightforward and more polite than questions in the Future Simple Tense

When will you move? (a straightforward question)

When will you be moving? (a polite question)

Note that general questions with the pronoun "you" and verbs in the Simple Future are used as requests.

Will you say it again?

Will you help me with the housework?

- I hear you've got a transfer to the new office in Rome. When will you be setting off?

-On Monday morning. But I'm taking two weeks' holiday before starting work. I’ll be spending a few days in Germany and a week in. the Alps with a friend. We'll be doing some skiing together.

-Will you be travelling by air?

-No, I'm taking the car. I'll be picking up my friend at Victoria Station on Monday morning.

-At: this time on Monday you'll be heading to Germany and I'll be sitting here sweating over the correspondence and it'll probably be pouring with rain.

-Never mind. Perhaps they'll open a new office in Mallorca and your turn will come.

-With my luck they'll probably send me to the Sahara Desert. Anyway, I'm off.

-It's gone five and my girl-friend will be waiting for me outside - and she won't wait long!

-Now it's my turn to envy you. I'll be doing overtime until 8 o'clock tonight.

-Don't work too hard! Have a good trip and don't drive too fast!

-I won't!

1.- I'll call for her at eight. - No, don't; she still (have) breakfast then. 2.I (wait) for you all morning tomorrow. 3. When you next see me I (wear) my new dress. 4. - My son will be in the sixth form next year. - That means that old Dr Adder (teach) him mathematics. 5. I'll give Jack your message. I can do it easily because I (see) him tomorrow. 6. We go to work on the same train. 7. You (do) geometry next term? 8. - I'll look out for you at die parade. - Do, but I (wear) a uniform so you may find it hard to recognize me. 9. He (use) the car this afternoon. 10. When you (see) him next time? 11.- I'll come at three o'clock. - Good, I (expect) you. 12.They are pulling down all the old houses in this street. I expect they (pull)down mine in a. few years' time. 13. Stand there, they (change) the guard in a minute and you'll get a good view. 14. You'd better go back now; your mother (wonder) where you are. 15. What do you think the children (do) when we get home? -1 expect they (have) supper. 16. We've just got to the top in time. The sun (rise) in a minute. 17. Air hostess: We (take off) in a few minutes. Please fasten your safety belts. 18. We'd better go out tomorrow because Mary (practise) the piano all day.

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