The document provides instruction on how to form and use the future continuous tense in English, explaining that it is used to talk about actions that will be ongoing in the future using the verb "to be" plus the present participle, and provides examples of forming sentences in the future continuous like "I am going to be doing homework." It then has students practice forming their own examples and sharing with a partner.

1. Lisa Whalen
Wilkes University

2.  What are some things that you plan or hope
to do in the future?
 Today
 Next week
 5 years from now

3.  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.

4.  When to use it?
 When speaking about things that will happen in
the future.

5.  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…

6. 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 friend’s house
tonight.

7.  Subject + are/is/am + going to be + present
participle.
 Example: she/reading
 She is going to be reading.
1. He/running
2. We/watching TV
3. She/folding laundry
4. I/doing homework

8. 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.

9.  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).

10. Possible student examples could be:
 I am going to be sleeping at a friend’s 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.

11. Choose a partner and share your examples with
them.
Choose one of your partner’s 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.

12.  How would you use the future continuous
tense?
 What are the part of the future continuous
tense?