Future continuous 

tense is used to talk about actions that will be in progress

in the future.

We use the future continuous tense for different purposes. One of them is for
making predictions and guessing about future events.

Form
The future continuous (or progressive) has three forms: affirmative,
negative and interrogative.
Affirmative
Its full structure, in the affirmative form, is:
Subject + will + be + verb + -ing + …

Affirmative short form is ‘ll:

Subject + ‘ + ll + be + verb + -ing + …

AUXILIARY
SUBJECT FUTURE SIMPLE PRESENT PARTICIPLE
VERB

I/You/He/She/It/We/You/They will/’ll be working

Its full structure, in the negative form, is:

Subject + will + not + be + [verb + -ing] + …

Negative short form is won’t:

Subject + won’t + be + verb + -ing + …

FUTURE SIMPLE + AUXILIARY PRESENT

SUBJECT
NOT VERB PARTICIPLE

I/You/He/She/It/We/You/They will not/won’t be working

Interrogative
Its structure, in the interrogative form is:
Will + subject + be + verb + -ing + …?

FUTURE AUXILIARY PRESENT QUESTION

SUBJECT
SIMPLE VERB PARTICIPLE MARK

Will I/You/He/She/It/We/You/They be working …?

Example
Every day you say you won’t be eating Turkish cuisine and then you do.

 He will be coming here to paint the walls.

 Will she be preparing dinner for us tomorrow?
 We won’t be having a day off on Friday.
 They will be cutting a lot of trees down.

Use
We use future continuous is used to talk about future events that we think
will happen, or that are already decided.

Summary
We can use the future continuous tense to make predictions and guesses
about new events.

We can use it in its different forms:

 affirmative: we start with the subject followed by will be and a verb

that ends with -ing;
 negative: we start with the subject followed by will not be and a verb
that ends with -ing;
 interrogative: we start with will followed by the subject and be and a
verb that ends with -ing (the sentence ends with a question mark).
For example:
— “Doctors believe that you will be giving birth tomorrow at this
hour.” = Doctors predict that during this time of the following day, the
pregnant woman may be giving birth.
♦ “Doctors believe that you will give birth tomorrow.” = We use the future
simple to express a prediction of the finished action and not the ongoing one.

Let’s revise this content within the {Form} section. Take a look at the
{Example} section that shows its use within a context.