Future Continuous Tense Exercises
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This tense can be used
1 with a point in time to indicate that the action will begin before this time and continue after it.
2 with or without a time to express a future without intention. In this way it is very like the present continuous, but it is not, like the present continuous, restricted in time and is a more detached and casual way of expressing the future. It often implies that the action
will occur in the ordinary course of events or as a matter of routine.
(Except when used as in I, above, this tense can usually be replaced by one of the other future forms, though the exact shade of meaning may then be lost.)
Put the verbs in brackets into the future continuous tense.
1 This time next month I (sit) on a beach.
2 When you arrive I probably (pick) fruit.
3 When we reach England it very likely (rain).
4 In a few days time we (fly) over the Pyrenees.
5 I'll call for her at eight. ~
No, don't; she still (have) breakfast then.
6 I (wait) for you when you come out.
7 When you next see me I (wear) my new dress.
8 My son will be in the sixth form next year. ~
That means that old Dr Adder (teach) him mathematics.
9 I'll give Jack your message. I can do it easily because I (see) him tomorrow. We go to
work on the same train.
10 You (do) geometry next term.
11 I'll look out for you at the parade. ~
Do, but I (wear) uniform so you may find it hard to recognize me.
12 We have to do night duty here. I (do) mine next week.
13 In a hundred years' time people (go) to Mars for their holidays.
14 He (use) the car this afternoon.
15 I (see) you again.
16 It's a serious injury but he (walk) again in six weeks.
17 I'll come at three o'clock. ~
Good, I (expect) you.
18 They are pulling down all the old houses in this street. I expect they (pull) down mine
in a few years' time.
19 I'd like to see your new flat. ~
Well, come tomorrow, but it (not look) its best, for the painters still (work) on it.
20 Stand there, they (change) the guard in a minute and you'll get a good view.
21 You'd better go back now; your mother (wonder) where you are.
22 In fifty years' time we (live) entirely on pills.
23 What do you think the children (do) when we get home? ~
I expect they (have) their supper.
24 The garden (look) its best next month.
25 It won't be easy to get out of the country.The police (watch) all the ports.
26 What the tide (do) at six tomorrow morning? ~
It (come) in.
27 I've just remembered that I left the bathroom taps on. I expect the water (flow) down
the stairs by now.
28 You (need) your camera tomorrow or can Iborrow it?
29 We've just got to the top in time. The sun (rise) in a minute.
30 Air hostess: We (take off) in a few minutes. Please fasten your safety belts.
31 We'd better go out tomorrow because Mary (practise) the piano all [FONT="]day.[/FONT]
32 Don't ring her up at 6.00; she (put) the children to bed. Ring later.
33 We are making a house-to-house collection of things for the jumble sale. We (come) to
your house next week.
34 That football club has lost some of its players. They (look out) for new men. 35 When I get home my dog (sit) at the door waiting for me.
36 Let's go down to the harbour; the fishing boats all (come) in because of the gale.
This tense can be used
1 with a point in time to indicate that the action will begin before this time and continue after it.
2 with or without a time to express a future without intention. In this way it is very like the present continuous, but it is not, like the present continuous, restricted in time and is a more detached and casual way of expressing the future. It often implies that the action
will occur in the ordinary course of events or as a matter of routine.
(Except when used as in I, above, this tense can usually be replaced by one of the other future forms, though the exact shade of meaning may then be lost.)
Put the verbs in brackets into the future continuous tense.
1 This time next month I (sit) on a beach.
2 When you arrive I probably (pick) fruit.
3 When we reach England it very likely (rain).
4 In a few days time we (fly) over the Pyrenees.
5 I'll call for her at eight. ~
No, don't; she still (have) breakfast then.
6 I (wait) for you when you come out.
7 When you next see me I (wear) my new dress.
8 My son will be in the sixth form next year. ~
That means that old Dr Adder (teach) him mathematics.
9 I'll give Jack your message. I can do it easily because I (see) him tomorrow. We go to
work on the same train.
10 You (do) geometry next term.
11 I'll look out for you at the parade. ~
Do, but I (wear) uniform so you may find it hard to recognize me.
12 We have to do night duty here. I (do) mine next week.
13 In a hundred years' time people (go) to Mars for their holidays.
14 He (use) the car this afternoon.
15 I (see) you again.
16 It's a serious injury but he (walk) again in six weeks.
17 I'll come at three o'clock. ~
Good, I (expect) you.
18 They are pulling down all the old houses in this street. I expect they (pull) down mine
in a few years' time.
19 I'd like to see your new flat. ~
Well, come tomorrow, but it (not look) its best, for the painters still (work) on it.
20 Stand there, they (change) the guard in a minute and you'll get a good view.
21 You'd better go back now; your mother (wonder) where you are.
22 In fifty years' time we (live) entirely on pills.
23 What do you think the children (do) when we get home? ~
I expect they (have) their supper.
24 The garden (look) its best next month.
25 It won't be easy to get out of the country.The police (watch) all the ports.
26 What the tide (do) at six tomorrow morning? ~
It (come) in.
27 I've just remembered that I left the bathroom taps on. I expect the water (flow) down
the stairs by now.
28 You (need) your camera tomorrow or can Iborrow it?
29 We've just got to the top in time. The sun (rise) in a minute.
30 Air hostess: We (take off) in a few minutes. Please fasten your safety belts.
31 We'd better go out tomorrow because Mary (practise) the piano all [FONT="]day.[/FONT]
32 Don't ring her up at 6.00; she (put) the children to bed. Ring later.
33 We are making a house-to-house collection of things for the jumble sale. We (come) to
your house next week.
34 That football club has lost some of its players. They (look out) for new men. 35 When I get home my dog (sit) at the door waiting for me.
36 Let's go down to the harbour; the fishing boats all (come) in because of the gale.
