Unit 2 grammar and usage Let’s know about the future eventsChina will be holding the Olympic Games in 2008You will be attending the college Entrance Examination from July 7 to 10 in 2008Guess what the tense is!Future continuous tense Toby will be climbing in the Himalayas all next week.Talk about something that will be in progress over a period of time.Toby will not be in London next Tuesday. He will be climbing in the Himalayas.Talk about an action that starts before a point in time in the future and probably continues after it The weather report says that it will be raining when we arrive in London.Express future without intention.When used in this way, we want to indicate that something will happen naturally. It does not imply that the speaker has arranged the action. Will you be visiting your uncle in Tanzania?Make polite enquiries about other people’s future plans. How to form the future continuous tenseToby will be climbing in the Himalayas all next week.Toby will not be in London next Tuesday. He will be climbing in the Himalayas.The weather report says that it will be raining when we arrive in London.Will you be visiting your uncle in Tanzania? The future continuous tense1 in statements by using will(not) be + verb-ing form Toby and his brother, Colin, will (not) be flying to Morocco2 in questions by inverting the subject and will Will they be flying to Morocco in 15th July?3 in short answers by using will(not) only Yes, they will./no, they will not (won’t). Page 29 who is the boss? Who is the travel journalist? what is the note about?Wang Haixin, the boss, asks David to go to London and bring back some interesting photos and reports because the British...
