The Future Continuous is used to describe an event or action that will be in progress at a given time in the future.

 

This event or action will start before the given time and may continue after it.

 

Right now Daniel is working in a cafe (Present Continuous).

In 3 years’ time he hopes he will be running his own restaurant (Future Continuous).

 

To make the Future Continuous, use:

 

will be + the “-ing” form of the verb

 

Singular	Plural
I will (I’ll) be waiting You’ll be waiting He/she/it’ll be waiting	We’ll be waiting You’ll be waiting They’ll be waiting

 

This time next week I’ll be walking in the parks of Versailles.

 

Tom will be starting school in September.

 

The Future Continuous is also used in  neutral questions — to ask for information, but not to make a request.

 

Consider the following examples:

 

Neutral question	Request
Will you be passing by the new grocery store? They have a wide selection of tea on sale.	Will you pass by the new grocery store, please? We’ve run out of tea.
Will you be attending the meeting this afternoon? Several interesting speakers are expected.	Will you attend the meeting this afternoon, please? They’ll discuss the topics of your interest.

 

The Future Continuous can sometimes be formed with ‘going to’ instead of ‘will’, but this is less common:

 

I‘m going to be studying all day long.

 

Do you want to go to a concert tonight? My wife’s going to be performing.

 

Shall we have lunch together on Friday? Peter and Jessica are going to be visiting our city.