Future Continuous · Exercises
B1Intermediate practice
What will you be doing?, polite questions and state verbs.
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- Practice10 exercises at your own pace
- Time Attack60 seconds, as many as you can
- Survival3 lives, harder as you go
- Tense SortDrag sentences into their tense — 60 seconds
- Timelines10 sentences to match to their timelines
- B1 Boss12 hits before you lose 3 lives
- Irregular MatchPair verbs with their past forms — 60 seconds
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What you’ll practise at B1
- will be + -ing
- Spelling: making, running, lying
- Negatives: won’t be
- Questions: Will you be…?
- Short answers
- In progress at a future time (this time tomorrow)
- when, until, as soon as… + present simple (I’ll be cooking when you arrive)
- Future simple or continuous?
- Polite questions and plans (Will you be using…?)
- State verbs (will know, not will be knowing)
- Timelines: what the tense means
Need a refresher? Learn the future continuous: rules, tables and audio examples.
Sample exercises
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Find the word that is wrong.
Lucia doesn’t be performing in the school concert at nine on Friday evening.
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Lucia won’t be performing in the school concert at nine on Friday evening.
Negative: won’t (will not) be + -ing. Lucia won’t be performing in the school concert at nine on Friday evening.
Find the word that is wrong.
Lily doesn’t be camping by a lake at two o’clock tomorrow morning.
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Lily won’t be camping by a lake at two o’clock tomorrow morning.
Negative: won’t (will not) be + -ing. Lily won’t be camping by a lake at two o’clock tomorrow morning.
Complete the negative sentence.
My dad _____ be giving a presentation at nine tomorrow morning.
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My dad won’t be giving a presentation at nine tomorrow morning.
Negative: won’t (will not) be + -ing. My dad won’t be giving a presentation at nine tomorrow morning.
Make the sentence negative.
My friends will be decorating the house for the party at four o’clock on Sunday afternoon.
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My friends won’t be decorating the house for the party at four o’clock on Sunday afternoon.
Negative: won’t (will not) be + -ing. My friends won’t be decorating the house for the party at four o’clock on Sunday afternoon.
Complete the sentence.
She _____ (see) Tom at work tomorrow anyway, so she can give him the message.
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She’ll be seeing Tom at work tomorrow anyway, so she can give him the message.
Use the future continuous for things that will happen anyway, as part of the normal course of events.
Put the words in order to make a question.
in / he / will / be / Austria / skiing
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Will he be skiing in Austria?
Questions: Will + subject + be + -ing? Will he be skiing in Austria?