Future Continuous, Future Perfect, Future Perfect Continuous

Future Continuous/ Future Perfect/ Future Perfect Continuous

Future Continuous

• To talk about an action or event which will be in progress at a stated future time.

• Eg. This time on Friday I’ll be driving my new car.
• Eg. Will you be using your laptop today?

I’d like to borrow it.

Form:

Will+ be+ Ving

Time expressions

this time next week

Future Perfect

• To talk about an action or event that will already be completed by a certain time in the future.

• Eg. The program will have ended long before we get back.
• Eg. By the time we get there the film will have started.

Form:

Will+ have+ V3

Time expressions

by

before

by then

by the time

Future Perfect Continuous

• To emphasise the duration of an action up to a certain time in the future.

• Eg. I‘ve been working here for 24 years. Next year, I will have been working here for 25 years.

Form:

Will+ have+ been+Ving

Time expressions:

By … for

Before … for

by then

by the time

• Future Continuous
• Future Perfect
• Future Perfect Continuous

Match forms and tenses:

Future perfect

Will+be+working

Will+have+left

Future perfect continuous

Will+have been+studying

Future continuous

Choose the tense

• My granny will have become a pensioner by the year 2021.
• (Future Perfect)
• I will be working at my composition the whole evening tomorrow.
• (Future Continuous)
• When we meet again, I’m sure Jane will have become a famous singer.
• (Future Perfect)

Choose the tense

• By the end of the month, I will have been working on the project for two years.
• (Future Perfect Continuous)
• They won’t have left for Italy by this time next week.
• (Future Perfect)

Put the right form:

Don’t phone between 7 and 8.We ………(have) dinner then.

• will be having
• Ben is on holiday and he is spending his money very quickly. If he continues like this, he ………… (spend) all his money before the end of his holiday.
• will have spent
• Do you think you ………….. (still d0)the same job in ten years’ time?
• will still be doing

Put the right form:

• If you need to contact me, I …………… (stay) at the Lion Hotel until Friday.
• will be staying
• At the end of this month, I ……………(work) on my physics project about six weeks but I’ve still got a lot to do.
• will have been working
• I …………… (cook) dinner by the time you get home.
• will have cooked

Right or wrong?

• They will be finishing their work by May.
• Wrong
• In few minutes, I’ll have been waiting here for Ben for over two hours. Where can he be?
• Right
• This time next month, you will probably have passed your driving test.
• Right

Right or wrong?

• This time next week, I’ll have taking my biology exam.
• Wrong
• I’ll have finishing my chemistry homework by the time you come home.
• Wrong
• In the future ,we’ll all be flying around using jet-packs.
• Right