Future Continuous and Perfect

Future Continuous and Perfect Tenses

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Future Continuous

We use this for actions progressing at a future time. NOT NOW!

"Liverpool will be playing next week."

Multiple Choice

"Liverpool will be playing next week."

Is 'play' an action verb or a state verb?

• action

• state

We can only use action verbs in continuous tenses...

• e.g.

• eat

• think

• go

Multiple Select

Select the actions verbs:

• like

• run

• hope

• study

• understand

Open Ended

What are some other actions verbs you know?

We make the future continuous with:

will + be + -ing

• I'll be flying to Ha Noi tomorrow, so I won't be in the meeting.

• They'll be leaving on Wednesday, don't worry.

Multiple Choice

"I'll be flying to Ha Noi tomorrow, so I won't be in the meeting."

Does the flight happen at a point in time or over a period of time?

• point in time

• period of time

We use continuous tenses to highlight or emphasize the continuing or repetitive nature of something over a period of time.

"I'll be flying all of Sunday, so you won't be able to reach me."

"They'll be doing exams all of next week, so they won't have time to play."

To create a question remember we swap the subject and the helping verb 'will'.

• From : "I'll be flying to Ha Noi tomorrow."

• To: "Will you be flying to Ha Noi tomorrow?"

We can easily add a "Wh-" question word to the beginning of this to make another question:

• From: "Will you be flying to Ha Noi tomorrow?"

• To: "What time will you be flying to Ha Noi tomorrow?"

Multiple Select

Pick the best question words - choose three!

"_________ will they be playing next?"

• When

• Who

• Where

• How

Multiple Choice

Pick the best question word!

"______ will you be going with?"

• Where

• How

• Why

• Who

Open Ended

Where will you be living in 5 years?

Open Ended

Write your own future continuous question to ask the class....

Future Perfect SImple

We use the 'future perfect simple' for actions completed before a time in the future, often with 'by'.

• "I will have left university by the time I'm 22."

Multiple Choice

"I will have left university by the time I'm 22."

What happens first:

I turn 22 or I finish studying?

• turn 22

• finish studying

• we don't know

To make the Future Perfect we use:

will + have + v3

"They will have finished dinner by the time we arrive."

Open Ended

What will you have done by the time your 20?

Open Ended

Write your own future perfect sentence.....