Future Continuous · Exercises
B2Upper intermediate practice
will vs will be doing, guesses about now and plans.
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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
- B2 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 B2
- 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…?)
- Guesses about now (She’ll be sleeping)
- 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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Write the verb in the future continuous.
Don’t worry about Mei — she _____ (enjoy) the party, I’m sure.
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Don’t worry about Mei — she will be enjoying the party, I’m sure.
Will be + -ing can also express what we think is happening right now: She’ll be sleeping (I’m sure she is).
Write the verb in brackets in the correct form.
As soon as the rain _____ (stop), my sister will be playing football in the park.
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As soon as the rain stops, my sister will be playing football in the park.
After “as soon as” (like when, before, after, as soon as and until) we use the present simple for the future — never will.
Future simple or future continuous?
That’s the doorbell. — I _____ (answer) it.
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That’s the doorbell. — I’ll answer it.
For an offer or a decision made at the moment of speaking, use will + verb: I’ll get it. Not the continuous.
Complete the sentence.
It’s half past seven, so Raj _____ (have) dinner. Let’s ring later.
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It’s half past seven, so Raj will be having dinner. Let’s ring later.
Will be + -ing can also express what we think is happening right now: She’ll be sleeping (I’m sure she is).
Choose the correct form.
After the course, my flatmate _____ (remember) all the irregular verbs.
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After the course, my flatmate will remember all the irregular verbs.
“remember” is a state verb, so it doesn’t go in the continuous: will remember, not will be remembering.
Turn the sentence into a question.
Lily will be covering the election for the BBC at nine on Friday evening.
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Will Lily be covering the election for the BBC at nine on Friday evening?
Questions: Will + subject + be + -ing? Will Lily be covering the election for the BBC at nine on Friday evening?