future continuous tense

FUTURE  CONTINUOUS TENSE

A. Form of the Future Continuous Tense

Subjeck	Will/shall + be	Verb+ing	Adverb
I We You They Students He She Anita Student It	Shall / will + be	sleeping	Soundly tomorrow night at ten o’clock

B.  Study the Following Illustration

The west life Boys are group of popular singers. At present,they are

Visiting all parts of the country. They will be arriving here tomorrow.They will

Be coming by train and most of  the young people in the town will be meeting

        Them at the station. Tomorrow evening they will be singing at the Mataram

         Town . The west life Boys will be staying for five days. During this time, they

Will give five performances. As  usual, the police will have a difficult time.The  will

        Be traying to keep order.it is always the same on these occasions.

1.   Are there west life boys popular singers ,or are they popular dacers?

2.   We will they be coming here?

3.   Who will be meeting them at the station?

4.   How many performances will they give?

5.   What will the police be    traying to do as usual?

C. Use of the future  continuous tense

The future contiouous is used to express an activity or state that will be in progress at a point time in the future.Examples:

-          She will be eating dinner at 7:30 toonight.

-          I’ll be teaching at this  time next week

-          Don’t call me at eight,because I won’t be home.I will be studying at the library

-          Right now I am sitting in class.At this time tomorrow,I will be sitting in class.

-          What will you be doing tomorrow night at ten.

-          Will you be passing the pos office when you go out? Yes?

-          At this reading here at  this time tomorrow

-          She will be going to bed  very late tonight.

The  future continuous tense is used to express activity or state that will extend over

A limited period of time in the future.Examples

-          Mr. Fudin will be calling on you from time to time

-          He will be working on his  thesis next semester

Exercise I

In this exercise you have to make sentences with future continuous tense.

Example: I’m going to watch television from 9 until 10 o’clock.

        So at 9.30 I will be watching television

1.   Tomorrow afternoon I’m going to play tennis from 3 o’clock until 4.30. So at 4 o’clock tomorrow I

2.   Rin is going to study from 7 o’clock until 10 o’clock  this evening. So at 8.30 this evening she

3.   We are going to clean the flat  tomorrow. It will take from 9 until 11 o’clock.So at 10  o’clock tomorrow morning

4.   Wendy is going to read from 5.30 until 6. 30 tonight. So at 6 o’clock.So at 10 o.clock  tonight wendy

5.   I am going  to play chess for five hours tomorrow afternoon. So at the second hours tomorrow afternoon I

6.   Rita is going to type he homework for  three hour tonight.at the hour tonight she

7.  Mr. Rif is going  to teach from 7. 30 until 9.20 tomorrow morning. So at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning he

8.  Right now I am learning in class. At the same time tomorrow,I

9.   She is studying English  at present in the library. At the same time tonight she

10.      The are playing football for four hours right now.At the same time next sunday they

   Exercise

In  this exercise you have to ask or answer the question with future continuous tense.

Example: You to borrow your friend’s bicycly this evening.

        (you /use / your bicycle this evening?) Will you be using your bicyce this evening.

1.   You want your friend to give Tom a message this afternoon.

(you / see / Tom   this afternoon)

2.   You want to use your friend’s typewriter omorrow evening.

(you  / see / your typewriter tomorrow evening?)

3.   You friend is going to soping.You want him to buy some stamp for you at the post officie.

(you / pass/ the post office when you’re in town?)

4.   You want to read your friend’s book tomorrow night.

(you/read/a dictionary to night?)

5.   Lia is going to shoping. You want her to buy a dictionary for at house

(you/read/a dictionary to night?)

6.   Will you be seeing Tom this evening? No,

7.  Will she be studying at seven to morrow ? Yes,

8.  Right now you are listening to the radio for two hour.will you be listening to the radio at the same time tomorrow ? Yes

9.   Will you be working in the bank at 7.30 until 12.30 tomorrow? Yes

10.      Azhar is learning English right now.Will he be learning English at the same time tomorrow? yes