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Actions and events in progress or incomplete at a specific time in the future
The future continuous can refer to actions that will be in progress at some specific time in the future - actions that have already started but have not yet be finished.  Don't call at 9 o'clock as we'll be having dinner. I will start dinner before nine and finish dinner after nine.Read more

 
 
 
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Predictions with future continuous and simple - board game with answers
B1-B2
20-30 mins
groups: 3-4
board game
sentence completion
 
Board game with 15 squares. Students complete questions asking for predictions about the future (general and personal) using future continuous and future perfect tenses. Includes answers.
 
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Future perfect and future continuous
B1-B2
 
(1) Concept questions for future continuous and future perfect. (2) Pair work to practise the future perfect (and present perfect).
 
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Future perfect and continuous practice
B1-B2
 
Ss complete sentences about themselves and their partners using future perfect and future continous.
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
Future tenses quiz: will, future perfect and future continuous
Ten-question multiple-choice quiz that tests understanding of the difference in usage between these three future tenses.
 
 
Future perfect and future continuous quiz
Fifteen question multiple-choice quiz. Tests understanding of the form and usage of the future perfect simple and continuous, and the future continuous.
 
 

 

 
 
 
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Global Upper Intermediate students' book
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Unit 9 Soap  Pages 80 - 81
 
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Module 10 Getting together  Page 115 
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Unit 4 Challenge  Page 41   Grammar: future continuous and future perfect
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Grammar Activities Two - Upper Intermediate
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12 Future continuous and future perfect  Pages 63 - 68
 
 
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(18a) Multiple-choice quiz about life in the future. (18b) Six short texts in which the answers can be found.
 
18c Ten years from now  Page 18 
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