Future Continuous Tense Class 5 English Grammar

Future Continuous Tense Class 5 English Grammar has been prepared for learning English Grammar of Class 5 under CBSE, ICSE, and Other State boards as Lesson No 21. Class 5 students in their English Grammar learning process will get help from the Future Continuous Tense Class 5 English Grammar to achieve better speaking and writing skills in English.

This Lesson 21, Future Continuous Tense Class 5 English Grammar contains – What Future Continuous Tense is? and Future Continuous Tense Formula, Uses, with a practice worksheet at the end for better knowledge for class 5.

Example & Definition: Future Continuous Tense Class 5 English Grammar

• He will be running a race.
• I shall be reading a storybook.
• Ravi will be eating rice.
• They will be going to school.

All the above-highlighted words refer to actions that will be happening at a particular time in the future.

When the action of the verbs in sentences talks about something that will be happening at a given point in the future, it is in the Future Continuous Tense.

Formula: Future Continuous Tense Class 5 English Grammar

The formula of Future Continuous Tense with Positive, Negative, Interrogative, and Negative – interrogative sentences and the Future Continuous Tense chart using different persons and numbers have been shown in the following.

Future Continuous Tense(Positive)

Formula – 1

Chart – 1

Future Continuous Tense (Negative)

Formula – 2

Chart – 2

Future Continuous Tense (Interrogative)

Formula – 3

Chart – 3

Wh-Word Question

Formula – 4

Example:

• Where will you be going?
• When will she be having lunch?
• Where shall I be making mistakes?
• Why will he be being absent?
• How will they be celebrating Christmas? 
• Why will Shruti be laughing?

Questions for information are made with the ‘Wh-word’. who, which, what, why, whose, whom, how are called ‘Wh-word’.

Future Continuous Tense (Negative-Interrogative)

Formula – 5

Chart – 4

In Negative-Interrogative sentences ‘not’ is placed before the subject noun and after the subject pronoun.

Example:

• Will not Ravi be playing football? (Before subject noun)
• Will he not be playing football? (After subject pronoun)

Uses: Future Continuous Tense Class 5 English Grammar

We use the future continuous tense

1. to describe an action that will be in progress at a particular time in the future.

Example:

• At 4:00 p.m. tomorrow, I will be watching television
• At 10:00 a.m. next Monday, I will be taking the exam.
• We will be spending time on a beach this time next week,

Future Continuous Tense Exercises

Exercise – 1

A. Use these sets of words to form affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences in the future continuous tense. Use suitable time references and other required words.

1. it rain/in Mumbai

Al 5:00 p.m, tomorrow, it will be raining in Mumbai. (affirmative)

At 9:00 p.m. tomorrow, it will not be raining in Mumbai. (negative)

Will it be raining in Mumbai at 3:00 p.m. tomorrow? (interrogative)

2. I/work/office

3. he/board/flight to England

4. she/shop/at Janpath

5. she/exercise at the gym

6. the children/sleep

7. she/write letter to Grandmother

8. they play tennis

9. they/drive through the desert

10. Ahmed/watch television

Exercise – 2

B. Write sentences in the future continuous tense.

1. we/fly/to/Mumbai

We’ll be flying to Mumbai this time tomorrow.

2. you/work/in/Kolkata

______________________ in five years’ time?

3. I/not/do/anything

______________________at 12 o’clock, I’ll be free.

4. I/have/a/music lesson

______________________tomorrow afternoon,

5. She/not study

______________________at 12 in the night! It’s too late.

6. Dad/wait/for/us/at/the/airport

______________________when we arrive?

7. We/not play/football

______________________with them on Saturday afternoon.

Exercise – 3

C. Use these sets of words and form sentences in the future continuous tense.

1. Maya/drink/coffee

2. We/walk/home

3. Jayant/take/a bath

4. Ravi/play/tennis at the club

5. Preetha/learn/French

6. Mother/cook/fried rice

7. You/clean/the house

8. Milan and Cyrus/eat/dinner

9.They/watch/television

10. Rati and Jayant/fly/kites