Future Continuous and Future Perfect Forms | Advanced English Grammar
Summary
TLDRThis video script offers an in-depth exploration of advanced English grammar, focusing on the future continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous tenses. Anne-Marie from Speak Confident English guides viewers through the complexities of these forms, providing clear structures, pronunciation tips, and real-life examples to enhance fluency and confidence in making forecasts, predictions, and expressing future commitments. The lesson aims to clarify the correct usage of these advanced forms, ensuring viewers can effectively communicate future events and actions.
Takeaways
- 📚 The video script is a lesson on advanced English grammar focusing on future continuous, future perfect, and future perfect continuous tenses.
- 👩🏫 The instructor, Anne-Marie, aims to help learners use these advanced grammar forms to make forecasts, predictions, assumptions, and promises in English conversations.
- 🔍 The lesson provides a step-by-step guide with real-life examples to make the complex grammar forms easier to understand.
- 🎯 The future continuous tense is used for making assumptions, indicating strong beliefs about future events, emphasizing ongoing actions, and describing temporary situations.
- 🔑 The structure of the future continuous is 'will be + verb-ing', and it's important to practice using contractions in spoken English.
- 📈 The future perfect tense is used to talk about one future event that will occur before another, emphasizing the completion of an action by a certain point in time.
- 🔍 The future perfect structure is 'will have + past participle', and it's often used with phrases indicating a point in time in the future.
- 🌟 The future perfect continuous tense combines elements of the first two, using 'will have been + verb-ing' to describe the duration of an action up to a point, or to show the continuation of an action beyond a future event.
- 🎼 Pronunciation practice is emphasized, especially the use of contractions and reduced forms in spoken English, which is crucial for fluency.
- 📝 The lesson includes a quiz to test understanding of when to use each tense, helping learners apply their knowledge in context.
- 👍 Encouragement is given for learners to engage with the content, such as subscribing to the channel and giving the lesson a thumbs up for helpful content.
Q & A
What are the three advanced level future forms discussed in the video?
-The three advanced level future forms discussed in the video are the future continuous, future perfect, and future perfect continuous.
What is the basic structure of the future continuous tense?
-The basic structure of the future continuous tense is the subject followed by 'will be' and then the verb with 'ing'.
How is the future perfect tense structured?
-The future perfect tense is structured with the subject followed by 'will have' and the past participle of the verb.
What is the structure of the future perfect continuous tense?
-The future perfect continuous tense is structured with the subject followed by 'will have been' and the verb in the 'ing' form.
Why do we use the future continuous tense?
-We use the future continuous tense to project assumptions, describe future events that are certain or strongly believed to occur, emphasize that something may still occur in the future, and describe new or temporary events.
How does the future perfect tense differ from the future continuous tense?
-The future perfect tense focuses on two future events, indicating that one event will occur by the time another future event happens, while the future continuous tense emphasizes the duration of an action or event.
What is the purpose of using the future perfect continuous tense?
-The future perfect continuous tense is used to describe the duration or length of time of an action until another action occurs, express the continuation of a future event even after another future event occurs, and illustrate cause and effect or predict a habit or common occurrence in the future.
Why might someone use the contracted form of 'will' in spoken English?
-The contracted form of 'will' is commonly used in spoken English because it is more natural and flows better in conversation.
What is the significance of the word 'still' in the context of the future continuous tense?
-In the context of the future continuous tense, the word 'still' is used to emphasize that an event will continue to occur despite current circumstances.
How can the future perfect tense be used to express future hopes or dreams?
-The future perfect tense can be used to express future hopes or dreams by indicating that a certain action will have been completed by a specific time in the future, showing a strong expectation or desire for that outcome.
What is the role of the future perfect continuous tense in predicting a habit or common occurrence in the future?
-The future perfect continuous tense is used to predict a habit or common occurrence by describing an action that will have been ongoing for a certain duration by a future date, suggesting that it will become a regular part of life.
Outlines
📚 Introduction to Advanced Future Tenses
This paragraph introduces the focus of the video: advanced future tenses such as future continuous, future perfect, and future perfect continuous. The speaker, Anne-Marie from Speak Confident English, explains that these tenses can be complex but will be clarified through step-by-step explanations and real-life examples. The aim is to help viewers make forecasts, predictions, assumptions, and promises in English. Anne-Marie also encourages viewers to subscribe to her channel for more English lessons and provides links to related lessons in the video notes.
🔍 Understanding Future Continuous
The second paragraph delves into the future continuous tense, explaining its use for projecting assumptions, describing certain future events, emphasizing ongoing events, and describing temporary events. Examples are provided to illustrate how this tense can be used in various contexts, such as making assumptions about someone's feelings or predicting that a certain event will continue into the future. The paragraph also touches on the pronunciation of contracted forms in spoken English and the importance of practicing these.
🕒 Exploring Future Perfect
This paragraph discusses the future perfect tense, which is used to talk about two future events where one event will occur by the time another happens. The focus is on the structure of sentences that use this tense, often starting with phrases like 'by the end of the day' or 'by this time next year'. The future perfect is used to emphasize the completion of an action by a certain future time, confirm that an event will be complete before another event, and express expectations, hopes, and commitments.
🔄 Future Perfect Continuous and Its Uses
The final paragraph covers the future perfect continuous tense, highlighting its use in describing the duration of an action up to a certain point, expressing the continuation of an event after another event, and illustrating cause and effect. Examples are given to show how this tense can be used to emphasize ongoing actions, request updates on projects, and predict habits or common occurrences in the future. The paragraph concludes with a quiz to test the viewer's understanding of the three future tenses discussed in the video.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Future Continuous
💡Future Perfect
💡Future Perfect Continuous
💡Assumptions
💡Events
💡Temporary
💡Confidence
💡Predictions
💡Promises
💡Duration
💡Cause and Effect
Highlights
The lesson covers advanced grammar forms such as future continuous, future perfect, and future perfect continuous.
Anne-Marie from Speak Confident English teaches how to use these forms for forecasts, predictions, assumptions, and more.
The future continuous is used to project assumptions and describe future events with certainty.
It emphasizes that something may still occur in the future and describes new or temporary events.
The future perfect focuses on two future events, indicating one event will occur by the time another happens.
It is used to express expectations, future hopes, and to make future commitments or promises.
The future perfect continuous describes the duration of an action until another action occurs.
It also expresses the continuation of a future event even after another future event occurs.
The lesson includes real-life examples to illustrate the use of each form.
Anne-Marie provides sentence starters to help identify the pattern in future continuous sentences.
She explains the structure of future perfect sentences, emphasizing the use of 'will have' followed by the past participle.
The future perfect continuous is a blend of the first two forms, combining 'will have been' with a verb in the -ing form.
Pronunciation tips are given for using contracted forms like 'will have' as 've' and 'have' as 'of'.
The lesson includes a quiz to test understanding of the three future forms.
Anne-Marie encourages practice with contracted and reduced forms for fluency in spoken English.
The future perfect is used to confirm that a future event will be complete before another event or by a specific time.
The future perfect continuous is used to illustrate cause and effect and predict a habit or common occurrence in the future.
The lesson concludes with a summary of the structures and their uses, encouraging learners to apply them in conversations.
Transcripts
there are some future situations that
can only be talked about
with advanced level grammar forms such
as the future continuous future perfect
and future perfect continuous
that may sound complicated but after
today it won't
in this lesson i'm going step by step
through all three forms
with real life examples so that in your
english conversations you can more
easily make forecasts predict
assumptions
indicate events that you strongly
believe will happen
make promises
highlight events or actions that will be
temporary in the future and so much more
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if you don't already know i'm anne-marie
with speak confident english everything
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and work in english
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advanced level vocabulary and in-depth
grammar training just like this lesson
today
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channel so you never miss one of my
lessons
and now let's get back to those advanced
level future forms
if you're looking for a lesson on how to
use the present simple present
continuous
will or going to to talk about the
future i already have a lesson on that
for you
it's called four ways to talk about the
future in english and i'll leave a link
to that lesson in the video notes below
i also have a lesson on how to talk
about future hopes and dreams in english
i'll leave a link to that as well
but today we're going to focus
specifically on the future continuous
future perfect
and future perfect continuous you might
be wondering if anyone really uses these
forms
and we do
in this lesson today you're going to
know how and why to use each one of them
and you'll be clear about the structure
you need as well
let's start there with a review of the
structures you need
if you already feel confident in this i
recommend that you skip ahead to the
next chapter where i highlight how and
when to use the future continuous
when it comes to the structure we need
for the future continuous
here are three sentence starters and i
want you to see if you can identify the
pattern
for example i'll be presenting on friday
so i can't make our usual lunch date
she'll be going
they'll be driving
do you notice the pattern
we have our subject followed by will be
and then the verb with ing
you'll see many more examples of this
structure in just a moment but let's
take a look at the future perfect first
again here are a few examples
by this time next week our team will
have completed the project
by the end of the day john will have
driven more than 350 miles
you'll have been a member of our
confident women community for more than
a month by next week
what do you notice about this structure
we have the subject
followed by will have
and the past participle of the verb or
the third form of the verb
and now let's take a look at one more
important structure the future perfect
continuous which as you may have guessed
is a blend of those first two
by the time i'm finished all i've been
working for more than 12 hours so i
don't think i want to go out tonight i'd
rather stay home
here we have the subject
followed by will have been
and the verb in the ing form
before we talk about the how and why of
each of those forms i want to pause to
reflect on the pronunciation
you may have noticed i used al
shil
hil
janel
artemo
vel
yul
rather than isolate or clearly say the
word will
i use the contracted form this is common
in spoken english and it's an important
skill to practice using those
contractions
on top of that when i add have in the
perfect forms you'll notice that have
gets reduced to of
she'll live
olive
olive been working for more than 12
hours by this time next week our team
will have finished
our team will have finished
that project
using contracted and reduced forms can
be a challenge at the beginning so don't
hesitate to take time to repeat what you
hear
or even practice this following the
strategies i share in my free how to say
what you want training which you can get
at my speak confident english website
with the structure and pronunciation in
place let's take a look at when
and why you should use the future
continuous
we use this form to project assumptions
describe future events that you are
certain will occur or that you believe
strongly will occur
emphasize that something may still occur
in the future
and describe new or temporary events
let's look at each one of those when you
want to assume or suppose that something
will happen in the future the future
continuous allows you to do that here's
a super common example
let's say that you've just invited your
friend out for dinner but
as you think about it you realize
maybe that wasn't a great idea you know
that this week has been a difficult week
with long meetings every day
in that moment you might say
i suppose you'll be feeling too
exhausted for a night out on friday
i suppose you'll be feeling
too exhausted
again that future continuous form allows
me to share that future assumption
as you know when we're talking about the
future we can never be a hundred percent
certain that something will happen
but sometimes
we have enough evidence to make us
believe
very strongly that something will occur
and the future continuous allows us to
express that
for example imagine you're at a
conference and you're waiting for your
colleagues to arrive and then while
you're waiting you get a text
saying that they're running late or
they're in traffic
of course again we can never be a
hundred percent sure about the future
but in this case you're fairly certain
they're going to be late to the
conference or late to the meeting
so you might tell someone else
they'll be arriving late ella just
texted to let me know they're stuck in
traffic
they'll be arriving late now sometimes
with good reason
you may want to emphasize that a certain
event is likely to continue into the
future
for example let's imagine you get
involved in a passionate conversation on
climate change
in an effort to bring attention or
emphasis to the fact that temperatures
will continue to rise you might say
we need to face the fact that despite
our efforts to slow global warming
temperatures will still be rising in the
future
we need a more sustainable plan
by using the word still
and the future continuous
we emphasize that an event will continue
to occur despite
current circumstances
the last reason to use the future
continuous is to describe temporary
events
just like the present continuous might
describe temporary events now
the future continuous describes
temporary events in the future
let's say for example your company is in
between video platforms
in the past several years you've used
one video platform for all of your
meetings and now you're transitioning to
another
in between this transition
your company might halt or stop using
any video conferencing software
for a temporary period of time
when updating your team to this
temporary change you might say
we'll be responding to clients via email
only this week
but we'll go back to video conferencing
as soon as we're ready to use our new
platform
and now let's move on to the future
perfect
unlike the future continuous
the future perfect focuses on two future
events
we use the future perfect to indicate
that one event will occur
by the time another future event happens
or occurs
so one happens first and then a second
one happens
for this reason you'll often notice that
sentences using the future perfect start
with something like
by the end of the day
by the end of the month
by this time next year
buy next week
by 3 p.m on friday
you might also hear in a year
in a week
in three months
or when something occurs and you'll see
many of these in the coming examples
as i mentioned the future perfect is
used to talk about two future events
so it may bring focus to the period of
time between those two events
the future perfect also allows us to
identify actions that will be finished
at a certain point of time in the future
we can use the future perfect for
expectations
future hopes
and to make future commitments or make a
promise
let's take a look at each one of those
in depth
let's start by looking at how the future
perfect emphasizes the period of time it
takes to reach point b
from point a
or in other words how to reach your end
point from your starting point
let's look at an example
let's say that you're renovating your
home and your partner is getting worried
about how long the renovations are
taking because your furniture is
supposed to be delivered very soon
to reassure your partner you might say
they will have worked for days when the
furniture gets delivered i'm sure
they'll be done similarly you may want
to confirm that a future event will be
complete it will be finished
before another event or by a specific
time in the future
when you want to confirm that with
certainty
the future perfect is a great way to do
so
for example at the end of a team meeting
your boss might recap or summarize some
of the decisions that were made
and in talking about an upcoming product
launch she might say
in two weeks time
we'll have received the marketing drafts
for the product launch
in other words by a specific time in the
future she is confirming that another
event
will happen
she's certain
the last three situations for using the
future perfect are for expectations
expressing future hopes or dreams
and making a promise or commitment let's
look at a few examples for each
imagine that you're a teacher or a
parent and you have high expectations
for one of your students or one of your
kids
you might say
by this time next year she'll have
gotten offers from the best universities
similarly you might be feeling very
confident in some of the investments
you've made for your retirement
and in talking about that you might
highlight your future expectations or
dreams by saying
it's my dream that i will have retired
by the time i turn 40.
and finally let's say that you're
working toward a deadline and you want
to reassure a team member
that your draft will be completed soon
you could say
by 4 30 p.m this afternoon i'll have
completed the final edits
you're making a commitment or a promise
now that we have the how and why of the
future continuous and the future perfect
let's transition to the future perfect
continuous
we use this form to describe the
duration or length of time of an action
until another action occurs i'll give
you a clear example of that in a moment
we also use the future perfect
continuous to
express the continuation
of a future event
even after
another future event occurs again i'll
give you a clear example of that
the future perfect continuous is also
used to illustrate cause and effect
and predict a habit or a common
occurrence in the future
let's take a look at each one of those
carefully
let's say you're talking with a client
and you want to emphasize that you will
be
prioritizing their project up to a very
specific point of time in the future
maybe there is an important meeting
happening in a few weeks and you'll be
prioritizing
their project during that length of time
up to that meeting date here's how you
would do that i can assure you that
everything will be in order we'll have
been working on this project non-stop to
ensure that it's presented successfully
by the time we have the meeting
similarly we can use this form to
emphasize the continuation of an action
or event for example let's say that
you're a manager who wants to touch base
with her team
you might say
on monday you'll have been working on
this project for two weeks please make
sure to give me an update on tuesday so
i know how things are going
we have two more forms to take a look at
and then i've got a quiz for you to make
sure you've got all this right so with
the present perfect continuous we also
use it for cause and effect
in other words we may be foreshadowing
some future event or occurrence
for example let's say that a friend
invites you to go jogging this weekend
but
you are currently training for a
marathon which requires hours of
training each day so
you can foresee that you might not have
the energy for a jog on the weekend
in responding to your friend you might
say
by saturday
i will have been training every day this
week so i might not be up for a jog
maybe we could just go for a walk
and the last reason for using the future
perfect continuous is to predict a habit
or occurrence
in other words when we set a goal
and we expect something to become a
habit or we expect it to become a common
occurrence by a future date
we use the future perfect continuous
let's say your sister is excited about
an upcoming trip to paris
and to prepare she has started taking
french lessons
in talking about her upcoming trip she
might say
i'll have been practicing french every
day for months
by the time i arrive in paris
we're using the future perfect
continuous to describe something that
becomes a habit
at some point of time in the future
now let's do a quick quiz to test your
knowledge of the future continuous
future perfect and future perfect
continuous i have five sentences and i
want you to decide
which verb tense should be used
number one
i hope my daughter
from university by the time she's 25.
what do you think
this sentence is definitely describing a
future hope or even expectation
so we would use will have graduated i
hope my daughter will have graduated
from university by the time she's 25.
number two your cousins
with us for a few weeks while their home
is being renovated
what do you think
this is certainly describing a future
temporary action so will be living is
the best choice your cousins will be
living with us
while their home is being renovated
and number three
on march 4th i
at this company for 15 years
what do you think
this sentence is an expectation or
confirming that something is likely in
the future
on march 4th i will have worked for this
company for 15 years
number four
i
for two hours
by the time she finishes reading that
chapter
what do you think of this sentence
in this one we're focused on the
duration of an action or event
i will have been studying
for two hours by the time she finishes
reading that chapter
and now number five
by june i
for a year
so i think that's a great time to
celebrate this milestone
what do you think
here we're focused on cause and effect
by june i won't have been smoking for a
year
so that's a great reason to celebrate
this milestone
with that you've successfully learned
the structures
plus
when and why to use the future
continuous
future perfect and future perfect
continuous it's a mouthful
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