Future - Present Continuous Structure

The Present Continuous (or progressive) is the tense used to talk about situations that are going on around the moment of speaking (before, during and after the moment of speaking). {see Present Continuous – Affirmative, A1 level}

The Present Continuous structure can be used to refer to fixed plans.

We usually find this structure in its three forms:

Affirmative

The Present Continuous in its Affirmative form of the verb “to work” has this structure:
Subject + verb to be + [verb to work + -ing].

SUBJECT	TO BE	PRESENT PARTICIPLE
I	am	working
You/We/They	are	working
He/She/It	is	working

Negative

The Present Continuous in its Negative form of the verb “to work“ has this structure:
Subject + verb to be + not + [verb to work + -ing].

SUBJECT	TO BE – NEGATION	PRESENT PARTICIPLE
I	am not	working
You/We/They	are not	working
He/She/It	is not	working

Interrogative

The Present Continuous in its Interrogative form of the verb “to work” has this structure:
Verb to be + subject + [verb to work + -ing] + (?).

TO BE	SUBJECT	PRESENT PARTICIPLE
Am	I	working?
Are	you/we/they	working?
Is	he/she/it	working?

I am meeting my younger sister to buy a wedding suit.
He is buying new clothes on the internet the day after tomorrow.
We’re giving a discount next week.
We aren’t giving a discount next week.
Are we giving a discount next week?

We can use the Present Continuous tense to talk about planned activities or arrangements in the future.

We usually use this tense when the time of the future activity has been already decided.

We can use the Present Continuous to talk about the future, when we refer to fixed plans.

We can form the Present Continuous in its Affirmative, Negative and Interrogative forms.

Affirmative: Subject + verb to be + [verb + -ing] (e.g. I am working);
Negative: Subject + verb to be + not + [verb + -ing] (e.g. I am not working);
Interrogative: Verb to be + subject + [verb + -ing] + (?) (e.g. Are you working?).

For example:
— “I’ll work one hour more.” = In this case we use the Future Simple because we express a future decision taken in the moment of speaking.
> “I’m working the whole summer.” = In this case we use the Present Continuous because we want to talk about an arrangement for the near future.

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