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Three Step English for Intermediate Learners - Learn #33 - Future Plans & Expectations - Grammar

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🗓️ 26 May 2025

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learn to set future plans and expectations

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Let's look at the sentence pattern.

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This pattern is the structure that all of our examples will follow.

0:08.0

Noun plus will be, verb, I, N-G.

0:13.0

This pattern expresses a future arrangement or planned action.

0:17.0

We begin with a noun, the subject involved in the future action.

0:21.6

Next, we use will be, indicating a definite action happening at a specific time in the future.

0:28.6

Finally, we add the verb in the progressive form by appending ING to the infinitive.

0:35.6

This puts the phrase into the future continuous tense,

0:39.3

clearly showing that this activity will be ongoing or in progress at a certain moment.

0:45.3

Let's see how a line from the dialogue follows this pattern.

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We'll be waiting for you at 7 p.m.

0:52.3

Here, we is our noun.

0:54.8

It's the people who have planned the arrangement.

0:57.7

Then Will Be clearly signals a definite action in the future.

1:02.8

Lastly, waiting is the verb in the progressive or continuous form,

1:07.9

emphasizing that the action, waiting,

1:10.4

will be actively happening at the specified

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future time 7 p.m.

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Will plus verb and will be plus verb-ing are similar future tense phrases, but they describe different kinds of actions and events. When you say something with the pattern, will plus verb, it's just a simple future action.

1:33.3

It expresses something that will happen often as a decision, a promise, or a prediction.

1:39.3

The action is seen as a single event, not something happening over time. Will be plus verb-ing is used when we want to talk about an action that will be in

1:50.0

progress at a specific time in the future. It focuses on the ongoing nature of the action.

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