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Life
Level 5 Unit 3b
Future continuous and future perfect
Presentation
Future continuous Use will be + ing to talk about an action that you know or think will be in progress at a certain point in time, or during a certain period of time, in the future. This time tonight, I ’ll be celebrating with my friends! (= point in time) Next week, I ’ll be lying in the sun. (= period of time)
I / You He / She / It ’ll / won’t be celebrating! We / They
Future perfect Use will have + past participle to talk about an action that is going to be completed at or before a given time in the future. Just two more hours to go and I ’ll have finished the last exam of my whole life!
I / You He / She / It ’ll / won’t have finished. We / They
TIP You often use the future perfect with expressions using by: I’ll have finished all my exams by the end of the week. I’ll have finished work by five o’clock.
Time expressions With the future continuous we often use time expressions like: this time next week, tomorrow at 6, until With the future perfect we often use time expressions like: in two years, in ten years’ time, by, by the time, before, already
At the end of this month, I’ll have taught here for 35 years! It’s time I retired! Next week, I’ll be lying in the sun …
This time tonight, I’ll be celebrating with my friends!
Just two more hours to go and I’ll have finished the last exam of my whole life!
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Level 5 Unit 3b
Exercises
Exercises
1 5 Complete the text using the future continuous form of the verb in parentheses. Then listen and check. 1 Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen. This is flight LH from Berlin to New York’s John F. Kennedy airport. We 1 your seatbelts. 2 We 2
(take) off shortly so please fasten
(fly) at a speed of 885 kilometers per hour and at a height of over 10,000 meters. We 3 (land) in New York in about ten hours, so sit back and enjoy the flight. 3 In a few minutes, our staff 4 (serve) a hot lunch. After lunch, we 5 (start) our duty-free service when we 6 (sell) perfumes and other gift items.
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(^6) Complete the text using the future perfect form of the verbs in parentheses. (cross) all (drive) more than (sleep) under the stars, (see) the sun set over Uluru, (visit) the famous town of Alice
By this time next week, we (^1) of Australia. We 2 2,000 miles, we 3 we 4 we 5 Springs, and we 6 (arrive) at our final destination, Darwin, on the tropical north coast.
3 Choose the correct form of the verb.
1 A: Will you be in the office tomorrow? B: I’ll be traveling / have traveled all day, but you can call me on my cell phone. 2 A: I promise you we’ll be finishing / have finished it by Friday. B: I should hope so, because I won’t be working / won’t have been working on this over the weekend! 3 A: How long have you been here? A year and a half? B: No, longer. We’ll be living / have lived here for three years at the end of this month. 4 A: Will you be seeing / have seen Patricia this afternoon? B: No, sorry. I won’t be going / have gone to the sports center this afternoon.
4 Complete these sentences so that they are true for you.
1 This time tomorrow, I’ll be. 2 By this time next week, I’ll have. 3 By the end of the weekend, I’ll be feeling because I’ll have.
