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Future Continuous
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Tense

Warm-up

Use these sets of words and form sentences in the future continuous tense.

1. Maya/drink/coffee

2. We/walk/home

3. Jayant/take/a bath

4. Ravi/play/tennis at the club

5. Preetha/learn/French

6. Mother/cook/fried rice

7. You/clean/the house

8. Milan and Cyrus/eat/dinner

9. They/watch/television

10. Rati and Jayant/fly/kites

The future continuous tense is often used to talk about something happening at
a given point in the future.

Use

We use the future continuous tense

1. to describe an action that will be in progress at a particular time in the future.
For example,

y At 4:00 p.m. tomorrow, I will be watching television.
y At 10:00 a.m. next Monday, I will be taking the exam.

y We will be spending time on a beach this time next week.

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