Friday Sessions #88: ‘They’ll be lining up fast’ – ‘Shuffle a Dream’ Little Dragon
Line up! Line up! Get ready to revise the future continuous with the Swedish electronic band Little Dragon. If you want to predict what someone or something will be doing in the future, you can use the Future Continuous verb tense. Your future predictions will need the grammar structure: will + be + -ing.
Todays lyric: They’ll be lining up fast
The phrasal verb ‘line up’ literally means to form a line, (or to form a queue (noun) / to queue (verb)
Another example:
1. “Do you think the product launch will be a success?” “Absolutely! Everyone will be lining up to buy it.”
Another prediction using the future continuous:
2. “I predict that A.I will be continuing to disrupt the market in the following years.”
Don’t forget that the future continuous isn’t only used to make a prediction. We might simply want to talk about an action that ‘will be happening’ in the future.
3. “The company will be launching the product next year.”
Tip!: When you hear the future continuous, the pronoun is often contracted with ‘will’:
4. We’ll be sending the delivery tomorrow.”
5. “Do you think he’ll be arriving before 12:00?”
So, what will you be doing this weekend? (Apart from revising your verb tenses of course…)
Lyrics
You cruise around in a deluxe water craft
And play it big in designer shades acting high class
And the girls that you know all admire that
They want your kids in a row
They’ll be lining up fast
To your door
So make a move
Castle in the sky
Pick and choose
If you want him
Would you share?
Cause that’s the deal, girl
Trickling coins
Making the noise
Follow it blind
Follow the signs
Why would want
Someone so vain
Stealing your soul
Making it rain?
You act supreme as your fortune lit the sky
But it’s a shell with a crack
And you’re just a plain guy
Play it big cause our world made it easy to
I see those shimmering rocks moving closer to you
To your door
So make a move
Castle in the sky
Pick and choose
If you want him, girl
Could you share?
Cause that’s the deal now
If you dare
Trickling coins
Making the noise
Follow it blind
Follow the signs
Why would want
Someone so vain
Stealing your soul
Making it rain?
Trickling coins
(Trickling coins)
Making the noise
(Making the noise)
Follow it blind
(Follow it blind)
Follow the signs
(Follow the signs)
Why would you want
(Why would you want)
Someone so vain
(Someone so vain)
Stealing your soul
(Stealing your soul)
Making it rain?
(Making it rain?)
Trickling coins
(Trickling coins)
Making the noise
Follow it blind
Follow the signs