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Oxford English Grammar Course Advanced

future progressive
We use the future progressive (will be …ing) to say that something will be in progress at a
certain time in the future.
This time next Tuesday I’ll be lying on the beach.
You won’t be able to park here tomorrow; they’ll be mending the road.

1 What will you be doing at ten o’clock tomorrow morning (or some other time, if you prefer)?

2 Write three things that you will certainly not be doing at ten o’clock tomorrow morning
(or some other time, if you prefer).

polite enquiries A common use of the future progressive is to ask politely ‘What have you already
decided?’ Compare:
Will you write to Oliver? (request or order)
Are you going to write to Oliver? (perhaps pressing for a decision)
Will you be writing to Oliver? (just asking about plans)

3 Make future progressive questions to ask somebody politely:


▶ when they are planning to go shopping. When will you be going shopping?
1 when they intend to pay the rent.

2 who they plan to invite.

3 how soon they intend to come back.

4 when they plan to go home.

5 where they are planning to stay.

6 what time they are planning to have breakfast.

7 what they plan to study at university.

8 whether they expect to use the car.

Will you be watching “I’ll be watching. I want to see “I will be watching until the end
the leaders’ TV how professional liars work.” of the first question. When none
of them have answered simply,
debate? “Yes, I shall be watching and it openly and honestly, along with
The first ever prime ministerial TV will be an interesting test of the millions of other viewers I will
debate in a UK general election party leaders.” switch off and then go to
campaign will take place on
Thursday. the pub.”

Will you be watching? (postings from a website discussion before a British general election)

PRESENT AND FUTURE 35

© Michael Swan and Catherine Walter 2014


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Oxford English Grammar Course Advanced

future perfect
The future perfect (I will have driven/worked etc) can be used to say that something will have been
completed by a certain time in the future.
We’ll have finished planting the new trees by Wednesday.
This government will have ruined the country before the next election.

1 Here are some sentences taken from newspaper articles and reports. Complete them with
verbs from the box, using the future progressive. Use a dictionary if necessary.
drive drop host pass put on quadruple rise

1 When this year’s competition in Nottingham is completed, Great Britain, like Japan,
it on 3 occasions.
2 In a few weeks’ time, the fallen leaves from ankle to knee deep.
3 Frank, Mr Andrews’ chauffeur, his boss more than 12,000 miles by
the end of the campaign.
4 If a traveller goes eastwards round the Earth, when he gets halfway he
through 12 time zones and gained 12 hours.
5 The decision means that annual government support for the railways
from well over £1 billion to around £300 million in 10 years.
6 Within 100 years the human population .
7 If you do not weigh yourself for a year and you eat just an extra 500 calories each day during
that time, you a full 21.8 kg; rather a nasty shock!

The future perfect progressive (I will have been driving/working etc) is not very common. We can use
it to say how long something will have continued by a certain time.
By next summer I’ll have been working here for eight years.

2 Write three sentences about yourself with the future perfect progressive. For example,
say how long you will have been learning English / working / living in your house.
1 By the end of this year,
2 By
3 By

Note: other uses These tenses, and other structures with will, can be used not only to talk about
the future, but also to express certainty about the past and present (see page 65).
As you will have heard by now, we are planning to open a new branch in Liverpool.
The world’s top skiers will have been studying the course all morning, in preparation for the first big
event this afternoon.

‘When you have lost your Inns, drown your empty


selves, for you will have lost the last of England.’
(Hilaire Belloc)

36 PRESENT AND FUTURE

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