Grammar learning path · B2 Upper Intermediate
Advanced future forms.
Choose a future form by viewpoint rather than by a single time label. Move from activity in progress to completion and duration before a deadline, then learn how the entire future perspective shifts when the reference point is in the past.
First lesson · Future Continuous (B2)
What you'll learn.
- Use future continuous for ongoing or expected activity.
- Contrast future perfect completion with future perfect continuous duration.
- Keep present tense in future time clauses.
- Express future-in-the-past plans, expectations, and imminent events.
Before you start.
- Know will, going to, present-continuous arrangements, and the B1 future continuous.
Lessons in this path.
Take them in order- 1Lesson 1Future Continuous (B2)
Extends future continuous to neutral expectations, present deduction, interrupted future activity, polite enquiries, register, and future narrative context.
- 2Lesson 2Future Perfect
Uses will have + participle for completion by a future point, deadlines, present deduction, passive form, and future time clauses.
- 3Lesson 3Future Perfect Continuous
Uses will have been + -ing for duration and cause up to a future point, with stative restrictions and inferential uses.
- 4Lesson 4Future in the Past
Shifts future viewpoint into the past through would, was going to, was about to, planned arrangements, and formal was to.
Ready?
Future Continuous (B2).
Begin with the first lesson and work through the practice at your own pace.