Future Continuous ESL Games, Activities & Worksheets

ESL Future Continuous Activity - Speaking: Writing a Schedule, Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Freer Practice - Pair Work In this fun future continuous speaking activity, students practice the future continuous by asking and answering 'What will you be doing at…?' questions about a day trip timetable, then creating and discussing their own schedule. First, students look at your planned timetable for a day trip next Saturday. Students then test your memory of the timetable by asking you questions using the future continuous, e.g. 'What will you be doing at half past one on Saturday?' Afterwards, each student prepares their own timetable for a day trip. In pairs, students then swap timetables and ask questions to test each other's memory using the future continuous. The winners are the students who answer all the questions correctly. show less

ESL Future Continuous Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Gap-fill, Sentence Completion - Speaking Game: Guessing, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work This free future continuous worksheet helps students to learn and practice how to form and use the future continuous to describe actions in progress at specific future times and talk about personal plans. To begin, students read two future continuous sentences and answer questions about their grammar. Students then complete a text with words that make up the future continuous structure. Next, students complete each sentence with the verb in brackets in the future continuous tense using the positive or negative form as appropriate. After that, students complete sentences with verbs from a box in the future continuous. Next, students use the future continuous to complete sentences with true information about what they will be doing at the times shown. In pairs, students then write sentences, guessing what they think their partner will be doing at the same times. Finally, students ask their partner what they will be doing at those times. For each correct guess, students score a point. The student with the most points wins. show less

ESL Future Continuous Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Writing and Reading Sentences, Asking Questions, Information Gap, Guessing - Group and Pair Work In this useful future continuous activity, students use the future continuous to write clues about what Paolo will be doing at certain times during the day and guess where he will be from the clues. First, in two groups, students write clues in the future continuous about what Paolo will be doing at certain times. Next, students pair up with someone from the other group. Students then take turns asking their partner what Paolo will be doing at the times shown on their worksheet, e.g. 'What will Paolo be doing at 6 a.m.?' Their partner then reads out their future continuous clues, and the student tries to guess where he will be at that time, based on what he will be doing. Once a student has guessed the place, they write it down under the time. The activity continues until all the places have been guessed. show less

ESL Future Continuous Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences from Prompts, Guessing, Freer Practice - Group Work In this engaging future continuous game, students listen to clues and guess what a partner will be doing at various times using the future continuous tense. In teams of two, students take turns picking up a card and reading the two clues written on the card to their partner using the future continuous. The two clues explain what the student will be doing at a certain time, e.g. 'At 6:00, I will be hitting a ball with a club. I will be walking around a course.' Their partner then has 30 seconds to guess what the student will be doing at that time, while the other team times them. If the partner guesses correctly and says the sentence written at the bottom of the card, the team wins and keeps the card, e.g. 'At 6:00, you'll be playing golf.' If not, the other team can guess and keep the card if they are successful. The team with the most cards at the end of the game is the winner. show less

ESL Future Continuous Game - Grammar: Gap-fill, Asking Questions, Miming, Guessing - Pair Work In this creative future continuous game, students partly complete an itinerary for a weekend overseas trip using the future continuous, then mime and guess the remaining plans to complete the itinerary. In two groups, students begin by completing sentences about an itinerary for a weekend trip with verbs in their future continuous form. Next, students pair up with someone from the other group and take turns asking their partner what they will be doing at the times missing from their table using the future continuous, e.g. 'What will we be doing at 2:00 p.m. on Friday?' Their partner then mimes the plan, and the other student tries to guess what it is by saying a future continuous sentence, e.g. 'At 2:00 p.m. on Friday, we will be skiing down a mountain.' When the mime has been correctly guessed, the student writes the plan in their table. The pairs then swap roles, and it is the other student's turn to ask a question. The first pair to correctly complete the itinerary wins. show less

ESL Future Continuous Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences from Prompts, True or False, Asking and Answering Questions, Guessing - Group Work In this future continuous true or false board game, students practice future continuous questions, statements and time expressions. Students take turns rolling the dice and moving their counter along the board. When a student lands on a square, they pick up a true or false card from the pile and look at it. The student then makes a true or false future continuous sentence using the prompt and time expression on the square, using will/won't be + verb‑ing, e.g. 'At 7 p.m. today, I'll be doing my homework.' The other students then ask future continuous questions to determine if the student is lying or telling the truth, e.g. 'What homework will you be doing?' After two or three questions have been answered, the group members guess whether the student's answer is true or false. The student then reveals the answer. The group members who guessed correctly each score one point. The next student then rolls the dice, and so on. When a student reaches the finish, the game ends and the points are added up. The student with the most points wins the game. show less

ESL Future Continuous Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Gap-fill, Matching, Changing Word Forms, Writing Sentences Here is a productive future continuous worksheet to help students practice the future continuous to describe activities in progress at specific future times in work and daily-life contexts. First, students complete sentences about the shifts of four workers using verbs from a box in their future continuous form and then match the sentences to jobs. Next, students match sentence halves to form sentences about a day in the life of a teacher and then complete them with verbs in the future continuous form. After that, students complete future continuous questions about a business trip with verbs in their correct form. Lastly, students think of a job and imagine that they are a person who does that job. Students then write future continuous sentences describing their work day and read them to a partner, who tries to guess their job. show less

ESL Future Continuous Game - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Guessing - Pair Work In this entertaining future continuous game, students guess what activities their partner has planned for them for next week by asking future continuous yes/no questions. Student A starts by asking future continuous yes/no questions about the activity planned for them on Monday, e.g. 'Will I be eating something?' Their partner answers 'Yes, you will' or 'No, you won't' accordingly. After five questions have been asked, Student A guesses the activity for two points. If the guess is wrong, their partner provides a final clue using the future continuous, e.g. 'You will be watching a performance.' If Student A guesses correctly from the clue, they score one point. If Student A guesses the activity, they write it down under the corresponding day along with their score. This continues until Student A has attempted to guess all the activities. Afterwards, the two students swap roles and repeat the process. The student with the most points at the end of the game wins. show less