Future Continuous
Objective:
Learners will understand and correctly apply the Future Continuous tense. The goal is to develop the ability to express ongoing actions at a specific future time and expected future actions.
Content and Methods:
The worksheet provides an explanation of the Future Continuous tense, including its uses, signal words, and conjugation rules (will+be+present participle or ing−form). It includes multiple-choice questions to choose the correct verb form, drag-and-drop exercises to place future progressive forms, fill-in-the-blank tasks to write the future progressive form, and reordering words to construct correct sentences. Methods involve rule application, guided practice, and sentence manipulation.
Competencies:
- Identify and understand the function of the Future Continuous tense.
- Correctly conjugate verbs in the Future Continuous tense.
- Formulate grammatically accurate sentences expressing ongoing or expected future actions.
Target Audience and Level:
Grade 8 and above
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Target group and level
Grade 8 and above
Subjects
Future Continuous
How to use future continuous?
The future progressive tense, also future continuous, expresses a continuing action that will be in progress at a future time.
We use the English future progressive tense to:
express that an action will be in progress at a certain future time.
Example: In an hour she will be sitting at her table with her friends.
express a future action that we expect to happen.
Example: And she will be seeing Charles, a good-looking pensioner she met there last week.
Signal words for the future progressive are: at 4 o’clock tomorrow, this time next week etc.
To conjugate the future progressive tense we follow the rule: will + be + present participle or ing-form.