Future progressive tense

There is a simple pattern in English to express a sustained action in the future:

I will be taking meals in the hotel the whole week.
She will be seeing her family in July.
He will be speaking to the class this afternoon.

In French, for the same purpose, you have to treat each verb differently, true?
What would be some good ways to say the above?

Appreciate your thoughts.

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EducatorPermalink Reply by George Hunt on April 9, 2016 at 6:16pm

I think that in French you would normally just use the ordinary future tense and rely on the context to show the continuity or otherwise of the what is going on.

There is the expressions "aller être en train de...faire" or ,similarly "Je serai en train de....faire" which would demonstrate continuity in the future more obviously but I think you would be unlikely to need to make this distinction very often.

There is also ,of course the "je vais ....faire" expression instead of the simple "je ferai" expression but I don't see much difference between the two in the sense that you are asking about.