Learn the FUTURE PROGRESSIVE TENSE in English

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English with Ronnie


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Hi there. My name's Ronnie. In the near future I will be teaching you many lessons. If you
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have a request or if you'd like to leave a comment, please do. Today I'm going to talk
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to you or teach you about future progressive or future continuous. They're the same. So,
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maybe you've learned future or you're trying to learn future progressive, and you look
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on the internet or you look in a textbook and it says: "Future continuous". No fear,
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ladies and gentlemen, future progressive and future continuous - exactly the same grammar.
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They just like to confuse you, and give me a chance to teach you this. So, hallelujah.
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And basically, future progressive or future continuous, we're going to use in the future
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for a planned action or an action that we think is going to happen or that will happen
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in the future. There's one very important thing that you must consider about the future
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progressive or future continuous is it must have a time marker in the sentence. So if
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you do not put a time marker in the sentence, it's wrong. Okay? It's shameful. I don't know
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if I can talk to you anymore about it. So do me a favour: please just use a time marker.
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Let's go through the basic structure. Future simple, future progressive 101. We're going
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to have a subject, we're going to have "will" or "won't" and then we're going to have "be"
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and a verb with an "ing". Positive, negative. The question form or the interrogation form,
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we're going to have "will" plus the subject plus "be" plus verbing.
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Now, remember: when you ask someone a question, please ask them in the positive form, because
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for example, if I said: "Won't you be learning English?" Won't I be learning English? Yes.
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No. Oh. Please, please, please keep it simple: always ask people a positive question. I don't
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care what your grammar is, positive questions are always the easiest answer.
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Let's jump to the form. So, example: "I will be eating lunch at 12." I always eat lunch
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at 12, kind of like a habit that I have. In this sentence, can you tell me where the time
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marker is? What's the answer? Sorry? At 12. Good answer. Tommy, good one. So, in this
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sentence, "at 12" is our time marker. Subject, "will be", verbing, then I have my noun, "at
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12". I will be eating lunch when? At 12. This is what I plan to happen. This is what I hope
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will happen; I'm hungry.
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And in this sentence: "At this time tomorrow, we will be sitting on the beach." Oh, wouldn't
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that be great? If you would like to go to the beach with me, just throw me some money
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for an airplane ticket, I'll be on the next airplane, I'll be sitting on the beach drinking
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some margaritas with you. So: "At this time tomorrow, we will be sitting on the beach."
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In this sentence, do you know where my time marker is? So we have this big fat one: "At
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this time tomorrow", so this tells me exactly when in the future I think the action will happen.
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"They will be going to Italy this year." Oh, they're lucky. Hi, everyone in Italy. Thanks
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for watching. Besos or bravo, or something Italian there. Good wine, guys. "They will
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be going to Italy this year." In this sentence we have "this year". The grammar is quite
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easy. Again, subject, "will be" plus verbing. Oh, but maybe something happened and now,
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unfortunately... Uh oh. Guess what? Reality: "Ronnie won't be going to Italy this year."
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But if you'd like to send me an airplane ticket to go to Italy, I'll be there. I'll be on
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the next airplane. I promise. Mm-hmm. Airplane tickets. Donate money. www.engvid.com. Also,
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I have a YouTube channel. Do you want to join that? Subscribe to my YouTube channel. Send
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me some airplane ticket money. I'll hang out with you.
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"We will be sleeping by the time you get home." Sorry: "He", not "me". I'm going to be awake.
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"He will be sleeping by the time you get home. In this sentence: "by the time you get home"
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tells us when in the future the action's going to happen. So what is he going to be doing?
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"He will be sleeping by the time you get home." Then the party starts, right?
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And let's look at the question form, some examples. We are going to use this to check
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plans. Now, maybe you're going to have a party. And you're like: "Okay, well, what time?"
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Well: "Will they be coming at 6 tomorrow?" In this sentence we have two time markers;
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we have a time and the place. So: "Will they be coming at 6 tomorrow?" We need to know
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what the plan is.
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Will Tommy M...? Hi, Tommy M. "Will Tommy M be emailing Ronnie in the future?" Now,
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obviously the future continuous or the future progressive happens in the future, but this
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also serves as my time marker. Tommy M, email. We have the "will", modal, we have the subject
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of Tommy M, we have "be" and then verbing.
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If you can think about something, a planned action or a routine that you will be doing
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in the future, let me know. As an example: "I will be buying Ronnie an airplane ticket
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to go to Italy." Or anywhere in the world I'd like, except Toronto, I'm already here.
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If you plan or if you would like to come to Toronto, I've got something special for you.
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find out all the wonderful information. Check this Facebook page out.
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