Future Continuous Tense

Future Continuous Tense:

 Definition: ভবিষ্যতে কোন কাজ চলতে থাকবে বোঝালে তাকে Future Continuous Tense বলে।                                                               1.   Complete the sentence.
Alex ___ late. He’s stuck in traffic.

Top of Form

 will be arriving  
 will arriving  
 will be arrive Bottom of Form

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Use:

a) Use the future continuous to talk about an event that will already be in progress at a specified time in the future.                                                   This time next week, I’ll be driving to my parents’ house.

Phrases often seen with this use of the future continuous include:
By ..., This time next week...,  In __ years’ time...; when + present simple; by the time + present simple.                                                            When you arrive, I’ll be driving home.
By the time I get home, you’ll probably be having a bath.

b) The future continuous can be used instead of the present continuous for future plans.                                                                                     Will you be going to Jane’s party?
Yes, but I’ll be getting there a bit late, because I’m going to a meeting after work.   

c)We can also use the future continuous to make a guess about something that is in progress at the moment.
Don’t phone Richard now, he’ll be having dinner.
Oh no, I forgot about the dinner! It’ll be burning, I know it!
These sentences are not about the future but we can use the future continuous to talk about what we assume is happening at the moment.

Form:
a) You can make the future continuous with will or going to. Make the future continuous this way:

Positive and Negative

I / we	Shall be /  shan’t be	verb + ing
You / he / she / it / they	will be /   won’t be

Example: I will be playing tennis at 10am tomorrow.                                                                                                        

 They won't be watching TV at 9pm tonight.                                                                                                                                                                              

 Questions:  

Shall Shan’t	I we	be	verb + ing?
Will                         Won’t	You/he / she / it / they

Example: What will you be doing at 10pm tonight?                                                                                                                                         What will you be doing when I arrive?

b) Remember that some verbs are not used in continuous tenses.  These include verbs connected with possession: possess, own, belong, likes and dislikes: like, love, hate and other abstract verbs: seem, be, cost, want.

The future continuous tense expresses action at a particular moment in the future. The action will start before that moment but it will not have finished at that moment. For example, tomorrow I will start work at 2pm and stop work at 6pm:                                                                                                                                                                                         When we use the future continuous tense, our listener usually knows or understands what time we are talking about. Look at these examples

·   She will not be sleeping when you telephone her.

·   We'll be having dinner when the film starts.

Take your umbrella. It will be raining when you return