1. Upcoming Schedule After tonight, we have three (2) more classes:
May 11, and 18.
Annual Year-end Picnic on May 25 – 3 weeks from tonight
At our house – about 1 K south on this same road
Food (dinner/supper), games, fun, and talking
For the whole family!
Two more Tuesday Night Conversation Classes:
May 9 and May 23

2. Future Continuous Tense

3. Verb Tenses There are 12 verb tenses in English Simple Continuous
Perfect
Perfect Continuous
Present
Simple Present
Present Continuous
Present Perfect
Present Perfect Continuous
Past
Simple Past
Past Continuous
Past Perfect
Past Perfect Continuous
Future
Simple Future
Future Continuous
Future Perfect
Future Perfect Continuous

4. Future Continuous Future Continuous with "Will"
[subject + will be + present participle]
Examples:
You will be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight.
Will you be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight?
You will not be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight.
Future Continuous with "Be Going To "
[subject + am/is/are + going to be + present participle]
You are going to be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight.
Are you going to be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight?
You are not going to be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight.
It is possible to use either "will" or "be going to" to create the Future Continuous with little difference in meaning.

5. Continuous Tense Usage
The continuous tenses are used to relate an on-going activity, event, or state to another, later, activity, event, or state; often related by:
Indicating a specific time
Indicating an activity “interrupted” by
another activity or event
Indicating overlapping activities or parallel activities
Examples:
I was writing a book yesterday evening.
I will be working when you come.
The sun is shining and the temperature is rising.

6. Future Continuous Tense Usage
Relating by indicating a specific time:
we are describing an on-going activity, event, or state at a “specific” (or “well-defined”) time in the future
Ex: I will be finishing my book next week.
Ex: He will be coming home at 9:00 pm (today – its not 9:00 yet).
Ex: They will be finishing their degrees next year.

7. Future Continuous Tense Usage
Relating by indicating an activity will be “interrupted” by another activity or event:
we are describing an on-going activity, event, or state when some other activity or event will happen
Ex: It will be raining like cats and dogs when she arrives.
Ex: I will be studying for my exam when the storm strikes.

8. Future Continuous Tense Usage
Relating by indicating overlapping activities or parallel activities:
we are describing several activities will be all going on at the same time in the future
Ex: Tonight, after ESL, I will be feeding the animals and Barby will be cleaning the kitchen.
Ex: Tonight, they will be eating dinner, {will be}1 discussing their plans, and having a good time.
Ex: What will you be doing while you are waiting2?
Most often we leave the “will be” off when describing parallel activities.
For all future tenses, the future cannot be used in clauses beginning with time expressions such as: when, while, before, after, by the time, as soon as, if, unless, etc. Instead of Future Continuous, Present Continuous is used.

9. Future Continuous Tense Usage
This can be used to describe an “atmosphere” (set a “mood”)
Ex: The birds will be singing, the sun will be shining and in the cafés people will be laughing and chatting.

10. Matthew 16:13-18 (p. 951)
13When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14“Well,” they replied, “some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say Jeremiah or one of the other prophets.” 15Then he asked them, “But who do you say I am?” 16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” 17Jesus replied, “You are blessed, Simon son of John, because my Father in heaven has revealed this to you. You did not learn this from any human being. 18Now I say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it.
Son of Man -> a name Jesus uses of himself. It identifies him with us – human beings, in terms of the essential nature of man as originally created!
Son of the living God -> identifies Jesus with God – again in terms of God’s essential nature and character; not his origin.
We have an idiom: “the son of his father” – meaning the father and son are so much like each other that they could be the same person.
Church -> a group of people – not a building; in other places these people are referred to as “the kingdom of God” or “kingdom of heaven”.
Jesus builds his kingdom, not by violence as does man, but by gentle persuasion, based on the attraction of love and fellowship.
“Building the kingdom of heaven”, based on history, is clearly an on-going process. Why don’t we use the future continuous?
We aren’t relating the process to a specific time or another event or activity.
We aren’t discussing the process being “interrupted” by another event or activity.
We aren’t discussing parallel activities.
We are talking about it as either a fact or as a promise. In both cases, we use the simple future.
Entrance into the kingdom is based on a personal faith and trust in God’s promised savior (Messiah). First, recognizing and admitting our need of a savior; then trusting the work done by God’s savoir on our behalf as the basis of our personal salvation before God. The work of the savior includes his sacrificial death for us as well as his perfect obedience to God.

12. Future Continuous Future Continuous with "Will"
[subject + will be + present participle]
Examples:
You will be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight.
Will you be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight?
You will not be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight.
Future Continuous with "Be Going To "
[subject + am/is/are + going to be + present participle]
You are going to be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight.
Are you going to be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight?
You are not going to be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight.
It is possible to use either "will" or "be going to" to create the Future Continuous with little difference in meaning.

13. Continuous Tense Usage
The continuous tenses are used to relate an on-going activity, event, or state to another, later, activity, event, or state; often related by:
Indicating a specific time
Indicating an activity “interrupted” by
another activity or event
Indicating overlapping activities or parallel activities
Examples:
I was writing a book yesterday evening.
I will be working when you come.
The sun is shining and the temperature is rising.

14. Future Continuous Tense Usage
Relating by indicating a specific time:
we are describing an on-going activity, event, or state at a “specific” (or “well-defined”) time in the future
Ex: I will be finishing my book next week.
Ex: He will be coming home at 9:00 pm (today – its not 9:00 yet).
Ex: They will be finishing their degrees next year.

15. Future Continuous Tense Usage
Relating by indicating an activity will be “interrupted” by another activity or event:
we are describing an on-going activity, event, or state when some other activity or event will happen
Ex: It will be raining like cats and dogs when she arrives.
Ex: I will be studying for my exam when the storm strikes.

16. Future Continuous Tense Usage
Relating by indicating overlapping activities or parallel activities:
we are describing several activities will be all going on at the same time in the future
Ex: Tonight, after ESL, I will be feeding the animals and Barby will be cleaning the kitchen.
Ex: Tonight, they will be eating dinner, {will be}1 discussing their plans, and having a good time.
Ex: What will you be doing while you are waiting2?
Most often we leave the “will be” off when describing parallel activities.
For all future tenses, the future cannot be used in clauses beginning with time expressions such as: when, while, before, after, by the time, as soon as, if, unless, etc. Instead of Future Continuous, Present Continuous is used.

17. Future Continuous Tense Usage
This can be used to describe an “atmosphere” (set a “mood”)
Ex: The birds will be singing, the sun will be shining and in the cafés people will be laughing and chatting.

18. Matthew 16:13-18 (p. 951)
13When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14“Well,” they replied, “some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say Jeremiah or one of the other prophets.” 15Then he asked them, “But who do you say I am?” 16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” 17Jesus replied, “You are blessed, Simon son of John, because my Father in heaven has revealed this to you. You did not learn this from any human being. 18Now I say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it.
Son of Man -> a name Jesus uses of himself. It identifies him with us, in terms of the essential nature of man as originally created!
Son of the living God -> identifies Jesus with God – again in terms of God’s essential nature and character; not his origin.
We have an idiom: “the son of his father” – meaning the father and son are very, very much like each other.
Church -> a group of people – not a building; in other places this group of people are referred to as “the kingdom of God” or “kingdom of heaven”.
Jesus builds his kingdom, not by violence as does man, but by gentle persuasion, based on the attraction of love and fellowship.
“Building the kingdom of heaven”, based on the flow of history, is clearly an on-going process. So why don’t we use the future continuous?
We aren’t relating the process to a specific time or another event or activity.
We aren’t discussing the process being “interrupted” by another event or activity.
We aren’t discussing parallel activities.
Rather we are talking about building the kingdom – based on the belief that Jesus is God’s Messiah - as either a fact or as a promise. In both cases, we use the simple future.
Entrance into the kingdom of God is based on a personal faith and trust in God’s promised savior (Messiah). First, recognizing and admitting our need of a savior; then trusting in the work done by God’s savoir on our behalf as the basis of our personal salvation before God. The work of the savior includes his sacrificial death for us as well as his perfect obedience to God.