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Unit 3 Lesson 2

The document summarizes different future tense forms in English including: 1) Future Continuous - used to talk about actions that will be in progress at a particular time in the future or planned future events. 2) Future Perfect Simple - used to talk about actions or situations that will be completed before a certain time in the future. 3) Future Perfect Continuous - used to talk about actions or states that will have been in progress for some period of time by a certain point in the future.

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Unit 3 Lesson 2

The document summarizes different future tense forms in English including: 1) Future Continuous - used to talk about actions that will be in progress at a particular time in the future or planned future events. 2) Future Perfect Simple - used to talk about actions or situations that will be completed before a certain time in the future. 3) Future Perfect Continuous - used to talk about actions or states that will have been in progress for some period of time by a certain point in the future.

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FUTURE FORMS

Future Continuous

Affirmative Negative

I/You/
I/You/He/ He/
She/It/ ’ll (will) be sleeping. She/ won’t (will not) be sleeping.
We/They It/We/
They

Yes/No questions Short answers

I/you/
Yes, I/you/he/she/it/we/ they will.
Will he/she/it/ be sleeping?
No, I/you/he/she/it/we/ they won’t.
we/they

Wh- questions Subject questions

I/you/he/
How will she/it/
Who
long be sleeping?
we/they will be sleeping?

We use the Future Continuous:


• to talk about actions which will be in progress at a particular time in the future (I’ll be in the
middle of doing it):
This time next week I’ll be on holiday. I’ll be lying on the beach or swimming in the sea.
• to talk about planned or routine future events, actions or situations (in these examples will be -
ing is similar to (be) going to):
Our best player is injured and he won’t be playing in the game on Saturday.
• to form polite questions or requests:
Will you be doing the first aid course this month?
Will you be using your car tomorrow? (because I’d like to borrow it)
Future Perfect Simple
Affirmative Negative

I/You/ I/You/
’ll won’t
He/She/ (will not) have by 10
He/She/ o’clock.
(will) It/We/ finished
by 10 o’clock.
It/We/
They have They
finished

Yes/No questions Short answers

Yes, I/you/he/she/it/we/ they will.


I/you/he/ No, I/you/he/she/it/we/ they
Will she/it/we/ have finished by 10 won’t.
they o’clock?

Wh- questions Subject questions

I/you/he/
have by 10
Who will have
finished o’clock?
will she/it/we/
When they finished?

•We use the Future Perfect Simple to talk about actions or situations which will be completed
before a certain time in the future:
Sally always leaves for work at 8.30 in the morning. She won’t be at home at 9 o’clock – she
will have gone to work.
We’re late. The film will already have started by the time we get to the cinema.

Future Perfect Continuous

Affirmative Negative

I/You/
I/You/ ’ll (will)
He/She/ have For He/ won’t
It/We/ been working 10 hours. She/ (will not) for 10 hours.
It/We/ have been
They They working

Yes/No questions Short answers

have Yes, I/you/he/she/it/we/they


I/you/ will.
he/she/ been for
10 hours? No, I/you/he/she/it/we/they
Will
it/we/ working won’t.
they

Wh- questions Subject questions

I/you/
have have been
How he/she/
will been Who will working for10 hours?
long it/we/
they working?

• We use the Future Perfect Continuous to talk about actions or states which will have been in
progress for some time by a certain time in the future:
By the end of the year we will have been living in Toronto for eight years.

Typical time expressions used with the Future Perfect Simple and Future Perfect Continuous
are:
• by 2030/next month/next year
• by then
• by the time
• in two days/three weeks/one month’s time/ten years’ time
HOMEWORK!!! Do exercises 3 and 4

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