FUTURE

CONTINUOUS TENSE
Lisa Whalen
Wilkes University

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

What are some things that you plan or hope

to do in the future?
Today
Next

week
5 years from now

OBJECTIVES

The learner will be able to identify the parts

of a future continuous statement.
The learner will be able to create examples
using the future continuous tense.

FUTURE CONTINUOUS

When to use it?

When

speaking about things that will happen in

the future.

PARTS OF A FUTURE
CONTINUOUS STATEMENT

Subject + To be (am/is/are) + going to be +

present participle (-ing verb).
I

am going to be.
She is going to be
We are going to be
You are going to be
They are going to be

EXAMPLES:

I am going to be eating lunch at school.

He is going to be practicing after school.
Mom is going be driving to the grocery store.
We are going to be going to the movies
tomorrow night.
I am going to be staying at a friends house
tonight.

PRACTICE

Subject + are/is/am + going to be + present

participle.
Example: she/reading
She

1.
2.
3.
4.

is going to be reading.

He/running
We/watching TV
She/folding laundry
I/doing homework

ANSWERS
1.

He/running
He is going to be running.

2.

We/watching TV
We are going to be watching TV.

3.

She/folding laundry
She is going to be folding laundry.

4.

I/doing homework
I am going to be doing homework.

BACK TO YOUR IDEAS

Using the ideas that you created about the

future, write them using the future
continuous tense.
Subject + To be (am/is/are) + going to be +
present participle (-ing verb).

STUDENT EXAMPLES
Possible student examples could be:

I am going to be sleeping at a friends house

tonight.
I am going to be working on my homework tonight.
I am going to be playing football tonight.
My family and I are going to be eating out tonight.
I am going to be going to Hershey Park this
weekend.
I am going to be attending college.
I am going to be working after school.

SHARE
Choose a partner and share your examples with
them.
Choose one of your partners examples, and
rewrite it in the third person format (i.e. He
is going to be, She is going to be, etc.)

She is going to be working on homework

tonight.
He is going to be playing football tonight.

REVIEW

How would you use the future continuous

tense?
What are the part of the future continuous
tense?