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Hi, everybody.
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I'm Esther.
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In this video, I will introduce the future continuous English grammar tense.
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This tense can be used to express an ongoing action in the future.
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I'll go over the basics of this lesson.
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And by the end you'll have a better idea of when to use this tense.
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There's a lot to learn, so let's get started.
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One usage of the future continuous tense
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is to talk about an ongoing action that will happen in the future.
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We include when this action will be happening.
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We can use 'will be' or 'be going to be'.
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To do this, let's take a look at some examples.
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'I will be taking the test soon.'
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So you can see here we have the subject and then 'will be'.
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After that, we include verb +ing.
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The word 'soon' at the end of this sentence indicates when this action will be happening.
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'I am going to be taking the test soon.'
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This sentence means the same thing as the first sentence,
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but instead of 'will be', we used 'be going to be'.
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Here the subject is 'I'.
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And therefore we have the 'be' verb 'am'.
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'I am going to be' And then verb +ing.
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'I am going to be taking the test soon.'
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I can also use the contraction and say.
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'I'm going to be taking the test soon.'
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The next sentence says, 'He will be sleeping by 10 p.m.'
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And the last sentence says, 'They are going to be …'
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Here, because the subject is 'they', we use 'are'.
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'They are going to be studying …' There's the verb +ing
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'… next October.'
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'by 10 pm' and 'next October' show when these actions will be happening.
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Let's move on.
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The future continuous tense is also used to show
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that a short action in the future is happening
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during or while a longer action is in progress in the future,.
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We can use the word 'when' to show when the shorter action occurs.
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Take a look at the first example,
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'I will be sleeping when they arrive.'
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Here we see two actions,
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'I will be sleeping' and 'they arrive'.
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The part of the sentence that's in the future continuous tense is the longer action
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that's in progress in the future.
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'I will be sleeping.'
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Remember, 'I will be' and then verb +ing.
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This is the action that is ongoing in the future.
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Then we see 'when they arrive'.
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This is in the present tense.
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'they arrive'
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This is the shorter action that happens while this action is ongoing.
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'We will be having dinner when the movie starts.'
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This is very similar to the first sentence.
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'We will be having dinner …'
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That's the ongoing action that will happen in the future.
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And while this is happening, the movie will start.
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But again, we use the present tense here.
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'the movie starts'
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So we will be having dinner when the movie starts.
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'Tina is going to be working when you leave.'
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Remember, we can use 'be going to be' in this tense so,
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'She is going to be working when you leave.'
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This shorter action will happen while this ongoing action is in progress.
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And finally, 'It will be raining when you go shopping'.
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Again, this is the ongoing action.
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And this is the shorter action.
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Let's move on.
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Now, I'll talk about the negative form of the future continuous tense.
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Here are some examples:
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'He will not be reading before bed.'
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For the negative form, after the subject and 'will', we say 'not be'.
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And then verb +ing.
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'He will not be reading before bed.'
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He'll be doing something else.
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The next sentence says,
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'My dad won't be cheering when the game ends.'
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So this is very similar to the first sentence.
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We have the subject, 'my dad,'
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and instead of 'will not' we use the contraction 'won't'.
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Remember, 'won't' is a contraction for 'will not'.
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'My dad won't …' and then we have 'be' verb +ing.
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'My dad won't be cheering when the game ends.'
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The next sentence says, 'He is not going to be working tomorrow.'
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Here we have the 'be going to be'.
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So 'he' is the subject and so we use the 'be' verb 'is'.
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After the 'be' verb, we say 'not'.
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He is not going to 'be' verb +ing.
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'He is not going to be working tomorrow.'
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Remember, we can also use a contraction here and say,
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'He isn't going to be working tomorrow.'
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That's okay as well.
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'We aren't going to be shopping on Sunday.'
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Here the subject is 'we'.
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And so the 'be' verb to use is 'are'.
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I use the contraction here 'aren't' for 'are not'.
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'We are not …' or 'We aren't going to be shopping on Sunday.'
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Great job.
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Let's move on.
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Now let's talk about how to form basic questions in the future continuous tense.
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Take a look at this first sentence.
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It says, 'He will be traveling next month.'
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Now, to turn this into a question,
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all you have to do is change the order of the first two words.
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So 'He will' becomes 'Will he'.
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'Will he be traveling next month?'
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You'll notice that the rest of the words don't change.
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Only the first two words.
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So, 'Will he be traveling next month?'
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To answer you can say, 'Yes, he will.'
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or 'No, he won't.'
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The next sentence says, 'They are going to be living there.'
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Again to turn this into a question, simply switch the order of the first two words.
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'They are' becomes 'Are they'.
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'Are they going to be living there?'
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To reply you can say, 'Yes, they are.'
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or 'No, they aren't.'
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Now, you'll notice in these two sentences,
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there is no exact point in time that shows when this action will be happening in the
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future.
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There is no 'next month' or anything like that.
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In that case, it simply means sometime in the future.
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So, they are going to be living there sometime in the future.
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That's what that means.
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Great job, everyone.
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Let's move on.
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Now, I'll go into how to form 'WH' questions in the future continuous tense.
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Take a look at the board.
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First, you'll notice that all of these questions begin with the 'Wh' words -
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'Where,' 'What,' 'Who,' and 'When'.
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Let's take a look at the first question.
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'Where will he be working?'
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When we use 'will be', we start with 'Where' and then 'will'.
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After that, we have the subject + be and then verb +ing.
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'Where will he be working?'
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I can answer by saying,
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'He will' or 'He'll be working at the factory.'
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The next question says, 'What will she be watching?'
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This is very similar to the first question.
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The only difference is that the subject is now 'she' and the verb is different.
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'What will she be watching?'
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I can say, 'She'll be watching' or 'She will be watching her favorite tv show'.
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'Who will they be talking to?'
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Again, very similar.
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To answer,I can say,
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'They will be talking to their mom.'
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The last question has 'be going to be'.
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'When are we …' here the subject is 'we'.
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So we start with the 'be verb' – 'are'.
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'When are we going to be meeting Casey?'
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I can say,
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'We are going to be meeting Casey later tonight.'
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Good job, everybody.
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Let's move on.
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Let's start a checkup for the future continuous tense.
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Take a look at the first sentence.
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It says, 'They _blank_ at school tomorrow.'
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I want you to use 'will' and then the verb 'study', for this tense.
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Remember, in the future continuous tense,
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no matter what the subject, we say 'will be' and then verb +ing.
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So the correct answer for this sentence is 'they will be studying'
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'They will be studying at school tomorrow.'
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The next sentence says.
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'Jesse _blank_ a TV show later.'
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Here, instead of 'will' try to use 'be going to be'.
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'Jesse _blank_ watch a TV show later.'
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I want you to use the verb 'watch'.
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So, Jessie is a 'he' or it can be a 'she'.
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Sometimes the name is used for a boy or a girl.
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Either way I need to use the 'be' verb – 'is'.
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'Jesse is going to be'
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and then we need verb +ing.
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'Jesse is going to be watching a TV show later.'
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The next sentence, I want you to find the mistake.
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'We willn't be studying at the library today.'
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'We will not …'
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What's the contraction for 'will not'?
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Well it definitely isn't 'willn't'.
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The contraction is 'won't'.
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'We won't be studying at the library today.'
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And finally, 'Sally and I will be meet our friends soon.'
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Remember, we need 'will be' and then verb +ing.
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So the correct answer is,
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'Sally and I will be meeting our friends soon.'
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Good job, everyone.
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Let's move on.
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Now, let's move on to the next checkup of the future continuous tense.
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Take a look at the first sentence.
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It says, 'He _blank_ at the door when the movie ends.'
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I want you to use 'will' and the verb 'wait'.
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Remember, for this tense, we need 'will be' and then verb +ing,
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so the correct answer is,
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'He will be waiting at the door when the movie ends.'
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The next sentence says, 'We are not …' so this is a negative,
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'_blank_ the play when he performs'.
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Here, instead of 'will', I want you to use 'be going to be' and the verb 'see'.
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We already have part of that phrase for you.
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'We are …', here's the 'be' verb, 'not'
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so this is negative.
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And then we say 'going to be'
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and then verb +ing.
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'We are not going to be seeing the play when he performs.'
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Now find the mistake in this sentence.
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'They won't be stay at home when the delivery man visits.'
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'They won't be'
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That's correct in the negative form.
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However, we need verb +ing.
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'They won't be staying at home when the delivery man visits.'
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And finally, 'Terry is going to working when the manager arrives'.
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'Terry' is a 'he' or 'she' so 'is' is the correct 'be' verb to use.
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'going to' that's also correct.
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What we're missing here is 'be'.
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'Terry is going to be working when the manager arrives.'
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Good job, everybody.
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Let's move on.
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Now, you have a better understanding of the future continuous tense.
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Please take some time to study and practice this tense as it is very important.
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I know English can be a struggle, but don't worry, I'm here for you.
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And I believe in you.
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I'll see you in the next video.