Advanced - Session 14A
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USEFUL
INFORMATION
Future continuous
Made up of three parts:
will + verb 'to be' +
present participle (base
+ ing)
participle
Will + 'be'
present
Subject
You will watching
be
She will
be
Uses:
➢ The future continuous
can be used to project
ourselves into the future.
➢ By Christmas I will be
skiing like a pro.
➢ For predicting or
guessing about future
events.
➢ You'll be missing the
sunshine once you're
back in England.
➢ To ask politely for
information about the
future.
➢ Will Jim be
coming with us?
I SEE MYSELF…
1. Listening
Listening to the song “I’ll be right here waiting for you” by
Richard Marx and complete the gaps you see with only
one word.
Oceans apart day after day
And I slowly _________ insane
I _________ your voice on the line
But it doesn't _________ the pain
If I see you next to never
How can we say forever
Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I _________be right here _________ for you
Whatever it takes
staying Or how my heart breaks
1. I will _________right _________ waiting for you
I took for granted, all the times
That I thought would last somehow
I _________ the laughter, I taste the tears
But I can't _________ near you now
Oh, can't you see it baby
You've got me going crazy
Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I _________ be right here _________ for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will _________ right _________ waiting for you
1

Future: Typical errors
We don’t use the present
continuous when we predict
something:
You’re going to fail the exam
unless you attend more
classes.
Not: You’re failing the exam,
unless …
When we make an immediate
decision, we
use ’ll not will or shall or the
simple present tense:
Wait a minute, I’ll lend you my
car.
Not: … I shall lend you my car.
or … I lend you my car
Useful Phrases!
We can use these expressions
to help us express future
intentions such as:
In 10 years’ time…
I see myself…
I expect to…
In the long run…
Example – I see myself
traveling around the world in
the next 2 years.
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2. Practice
Write sentences in the future continuous that will be true
for you using the verbs you found in exercise 1.
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3. Survey Questions
Ask your partner the survey questions from the slide and
describe in a paragraph what she/he said.
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4. Error Correction
Look at the following text. There are six mistakes. Circle
them and correct in the space below.
A difficult week at work.
This week will be one of my hardest ones at work. On
Monday, I will be travel to New York in the morning and in
the afternoon, I will meeting a lot of co-workers from our
main headquarters. I am glad to work with them because
they are very hardworking, smart, humble and talkative. We
will are work together to prepare the launching of our brand
new car. I will be spend 3 days there and then on Thursday I
will be fly to Rome at 4. a to attend an important car race
where 3 of our main brand car will be compete for the big
prize. I hope everything goes well.
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7. Role Play
In groups of 3 develop a short job interview role play.
Take roles as an interviewer and good and bad
candidates.
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