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Future continuous
Related language points
future - generalwill - future uses
going to - future intentions
present continuous for future arrangements
present simple - timetabled future
future perfect
going to (prediction)
Actions and events in progress or incomplete at a specific time in the future
The future continuous can refer to actions that will be in progress at some specific time in the future - actions that have already started but have not yet be finished. Don't call at 9 o'clock as we'll be having dinner.
I will start dinner before nine and finish dinner after nine.Read more
Predictions with future continuous and simple - board game with answers
B1-B2
20-30 mins
groups: 3-4
board game
sentence completion
Future perfect and future continuous
B1-B2
Future perfect and continuous practice
B1-B2
Future tenses quiz: will, future perfect and future continuous
Ten-question multiple-choice quiz that tests understanding of the difference in usage between these three future tenses.
Ten-question multiple-choice quiz that tests understanding of the difference in usage between these three future tenses.
Future perfect and future continuous quiz
Fifteen question multiple-choice quiz. Tests understanding of the form and usage of the future perfect simple and continuous, and the future continuous.
Fifteen question multiple-choice quiz. Tests understanding of the form and usage of the future perfect simple and continuous, and the future continuous.
Global Upper Intermediate students' book
Unit 1 Alive & Well Page 13 Future continuous and future perfect
Unit 9 Soap Pages 80 - 81
Unit 16 Review 2 Page 136
Personal predictions; class survey
Personal predictions; class survey
Unit 12 Student Pages 113 - 114
Module 3 Adventures and mishap Page 37 Language focus
Pictures with multiple-choice captions / speech bubbles. Analysis of examples. Follow up multiple-choice exercise. Listening - students guess the questions and then ask partner
Pictures with multiple-choice captions / speech bubbles. Analysis of examples. Follow up multiple-choice exercise. Listening - students guess the questions and then ask partner
Module 10 Getting together Pages 111 - 112
Module 10 Getting together Page 115
practise
practise
Consolidation modules 9 - 12 Page 136
consolidation
consolidation
New Inside Out Student's Book Upper Intermediate
Unit 4 Challenge Page 41 Grammar: future continuous and future perfect
Find examples of these tenses in previous text + practice book exercises.
Find examples of these tenses in previous text + practice book exercises.
15 - 16 Future continuous and future perfect Pages 15 - 16 Futures 1, Futures 2
Futures 1 Four notices relating to the future. Gap filled explanations Futures 2 Matching, short gap-fill
Futures 1 Four notices relating to the future. Gap filled explanations Futures 2 Matching, short gap-fill
Developing Grammar in Context
12 Future continuous and future perfect Pages 63 - 68
18a & b Tomorrow's world Page 18
(18a) Multiple-choice quiz about life in the future. (18b) Six short texts in which the answers can be found.
(18a) Multiple-choice quiz about life in the future. (18b) Six short texts in which the answers can be found.
18c Ten years from now Page 18
Students complete sentences making predictions about each other and read them out. Marked as pair work but could be done in small groups or even as a whole class if they know each other sufficiently well.
Students complete sentences making predictions about each other and read them out. Marked as pair work but could be done in small groups or even as a whole class if they know each other sufficiently well.
