FUTURE PROGRESSIVE

(a) I will begin to study at seven.

You will come at eight.
I will be studying when you
come.
(b) Right now I am sitting in class.
At this same time tomorrow, I
will be sitting in class.
(c) Dont call me at nine because I
wont be home. I am going to
be studying at the library.
(d) Dont get impatient. She will be
coming soon.
(e) Dont get impatient. She will
come soon.

The future progressive expresses an

activity that will be in progress at a time
in the future.

The progressive form of be going to:

Be going to + be + -ing
Sometimes there is little or no difference
between the future progressive and the
simple future, especially when the future
event will occur at an indefinite time in
the future, as in (d) and (e).

FORM:
Will + be + V-ing
I will be studying when you arrive.
EXERCISES
1. In this exercise you have to make sentences with will be ing.
Example: Im going to watch television from 9 until 10 oclock this
evening. So at 9.30 I will be watching television.
Tomorrow afternoon Im going to play tennis from 3
oclock
until
4.30.
So
at
4.oo
tomorrow
I
.
..
Jim is going to study from 7 oclock until 10 oclock this
evening.
So
at
8.30
this
evening
he
..
We are going to clean the flat tomorrow. It will take from 9
until 11 oclock. So at 10 oclock tomorrow morning
.. ..
2. This time you have to write three sentences, one each about
the past, present and future. Bob always reads the newspaper
in the morning. It always takes him half an hour, from 8 0clock
until 8.30. So:
At
8.15
yesterday
morning
Bob
..
.
Its
8.15
now.
He

 At
8.15
tomorrow
morning
.
.

he

3. This time you have to ask questions with Will you be ing?
Example: You want to borrow your friends bicycle this evening.
(you / use / your bicycle this evening?) Will you be using
your bicycle this evening?
You want your friend to give Tom a message this
afternoon.
(you
/
see
/
Tom
this
afternoon?)
..
..
You want to use your friends typewriter tomorrow evening.
(you / use / your typewriter tomorrow evening?)
.
Your friend is going shopping. You want him/her to buy some
stamps for you at the post office.
(you / pass / the post office when youre in town?)
..

.
4. Use the FUTURE PROGRESSIVE or the SIMPLE PRESENT.
Right now I am attending class. Yesterday at this time, I
was attending class. Tomorrow at this time, I (attend)
. . Class.
Tomorrow Im going to leave for home. When I (arrive)
.. at the airport, my
whole
family
(wait)
.
for me.
When I (get) up
tomorrow
morning,
the
sun
(shine)
.,
the
birds
(sing) .., and my
roommate
(lie,
still)
in bed
fast asleep.
Next
year
at
this
time,
I
(do)
. Exactly what I am
doing
now.
I
(attend)
.

school
and
(study)
. . hard
next year.
Look at those dark clouds. When class (be)
over, it (rain,
probably)
.
.