Transcript Future Continuous Tense, Time

Future Continuous
Tense, Time
Describing
Future Activities
Expressing Time & Duration
Making Plans by Telephone
Vocabulary Preview: Verbs
Past Tenses
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Simple Past Tense:
“Maria danced and sang all night”
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Past Continuous Tense:
“Last night at 8 PM, Rose was cooking supper.”
Simple Future Tense
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When using the future
tense, we typically only
need:
a subject + auxiliary + verb
Example:
“I will walk”
Auxiliaries
I
I
I
I
I
will go
should read
can swim
may run
must walk
Future Continuous Tense
To make the FCT, we need:
subject + auxiliary + be + verb + ing
Auxiliaries
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Example:
“We will be reading.”
(We + will + be + read + ing)
I
I
I
I
I
will go
should read
can swim
may run
must walk
Future Tense
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Simple Future Tense
“Tomorrow I will walk home.”
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Future Continuous Tense
“Tomorrow at 5 PM I will be walking home.”
Will
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When abbreviated (shortened), we replace the ‘w’ and ‘i’ with an
apostrophe.
Examples:
I will
He will
It will
We will
You will
They will
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=
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I’ll
he’ll
it’ll
we’ll
you’ll
they’ll
He will not
They will not
= he won’t
= they won’t
Poor Arthur
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Sometimes, when a girl
doesn’t like a guy, she’ll
give him excuses why
she can’t see him instead
of telling him she isn’t
interested.
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Samuel doesn’t like those
kinds of girls.
Lets Practice
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Fill in the blanks with a partner to create a
telephone dialogue
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Feel free to change the story to make it
more interesting!
Listening Test
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First, lets read common telephone
conversations
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Next, since talking on the telephone
requires careful listening, lets complete
the listening test
She’ll be staying with us for a few
months: Time Expressions
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Reply to the following questions using proper
Future Continuous Tense and the given Time
Expression