(1)表示将来某一时间点或时间段正在进行的动作。

Dr Brain will be talking about success next time.

What will you be doing at eight tomorrow evening?

I wonder if it will still be raining this afternoon.

　(2). 表示即将或按计划在未来要发生的事情, 主语为第一人称时往往含有期盼情感.

　I'll be seeing my grandma next month.

　They will be separating in the summer.

3．将来完成时

表示将来某一时间之前已经完成的动作，并往往对将来某一时间产生影响。

When you get home, you father will have left for America.

By the end of next month he will have finished his novel.

4. 过去将来时

1)从过去某时看将要发生的动作。

I never imagined that he would become a doctor.

I was about to leave when my uncle arrived.

2)come, go, leave, arrive等表示位置移动的词，可用过去进行时表过去将来。

Mr. Smith telephoned home to tell his wife that John was coming for supper.

He told me that he was leaving soon.

5. 近年高考中时态考查示例

[例1]： 考查过去完成时

[2001上海春]：The new suspension bridge _____ by the end of last month.

A. has been designed B. had been designed C. was designed D. would be designed

[解析]：by (the end of ) last month是过去完成时的典型的时间状语. 悬挂大桥是被设计, 用过去完成时的被动形式. 答案: B

[演变]: John and I ______ friends for eight years. We first went to know each other at a Christmas party

But we ______ each other a couple of times before that.

　A. had been; have seen B. have been; have seen

　C. had been; had seen D. have been; had seen

[点拨]：约翰和我(到现在)已经做朋友8年, 用现在完成时; 后面是在过去某时间前已经见