Future Continuous

The Future Continuous (will be + verb-ing) expresses an action in progress at a specific future moment: At 9 a.m., I will be presenting, Don’t call at 3 p.m. — she’ll be working. Beyond that core use, it carries two further functions: planned or expected action in a future routine (I’ll be working from home on Friday as usual), and polite enquiry (Will you be using the meeting room?), which sounds less direct and more professional than Are you going to use…? The contrast with the Future Simple is the same in-progress / decision split that runs through the rest of the English tense system.

This worksheet builds B2 fluency with the Future Continuous in workplace, business-email, and indirect-enquiry contexts.

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What’s inside:

• Grammar Box with form (will be -ing, won’t be -ing, Will…be -ing?) and the three main uses
• Sentence completion: extend prompts (At this time next week, I…) using the future continuous
• Office-arrangements email gap-fill: complete a workplace email with multiple future continuous verbs
• Rewriting: convert will + base form into future continuous where appropriate
• Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes on the polite-enquiry register and state-verb exceptions

Common mistakes addressed: continuous with state verbs (I will be knowing the answer), missing be (I will working), and confusion between Future Continuous (in progress at a future moment) and Future Perfect (completed by a future moment).

For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B2, in upper-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. The Future Continuous appears regularly in Cambridge B2 First (FCE) Writing — particularly in workplace emails and reports where polite indirect enquiries are expected. Part of the Future Tenses collection — the natural sibling is Future Perfect, which covers the action-completed-by-a-future-moment counterpart.