Ex. 3. Compare and analyze the usage of the Future Simple Tense and the Future Continuous Tense.
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Future Continuous Tense
Ex. 2. Compare and analyze the usage of the Past Simple Tense and the Past Continuous Tense.
1. I dropped my bag when I was running for a bus. 2. I played computer games yesterday. I was playing computer games at 3 o'clock yesterday. I was playing computer games the whole evening yesterday. 3. When I came into the kitchen, mother was cooking. 4. Did you do your homework yesterday? – I was doing my homework from 6 till 9 o'clock yesterday. 5. She always looked very smart. When I met her in Rome, she was wearing a long beautiful dress. 6. Father came home at 5 o'clock yesterday. Then he was reading a newspaper while mother was watching TV.
| The future Continuous Tense is used: | Examples |
| For an action which will be going on at a definite moment in the future: at 6 o'clock tomorrow, the whole day tomorrow, at this time tomorrow | I will be working in the library at 10 o'clock tomorrow. And you? What will you be doing at this time? I will not (won't) be working in the library, I'll be preparingfor my exams. |
| For an action which will be going on during a certain period of time in the future: when he comes | The children will not (won't) be sleeping when I come home from work. Will they be having a party? No, they won't. They will be havingsupper. |
1.Tomorrow I will begin decorating my flat as soon as I come home from the market. I'll be decorating it from 2 till 6 o'clock. 2. I think I'll use a bike to get to school tomorrow. Will you be using your bike this evening? 3. Richard will be cleaning the house while Sue is cooking dinner. 4. This time tomorrow evening my friends will be flying over France. They'll probably go to the UK too. 5. I think I'll take an umbrella because it is still raining. They say it will be raining the whole week-end.
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