Future perfect & Future continuous

Future continuous (will be + ‘ing’ )

• • Please don’t ring at 7 o’clock. I’ll be watching my favourite programme on TV.
  • This time tomorrow we’ll be sitting on the beach. I can’t wait!

  We use the future continuous to talk about something that will be in progress at or around a time in the future.

  • Don’t phone David now, he’ll be having dinner.
  • The kids are very quiet. They’ll be doing something wrong, I know it!

  
  

  These sentences are not about the future but we can use the future continuous to talk about what we assume is happening at the moment.

Future Perfect (WILL+HAVE+ PAST PARTICIPLE)

• • Do you think you will have finished the project by next Thursday?
  • In 2 years time I’ll have finished university and I’ll be able to earn some money at last.

  We use the future perfect to say that something will be finished by a particular time in the future.
  
  We often use the future perfect with ‘by’ or ‘in’

  • I think astronauts will have landed on Mars by the year 2025.
  • I’ll have finished in an hour and then you can use the computer.

  ‘By’ means ‘not later than a particular time’ and ‘in’ means 'within a period of time’. We don’t know exactly when something will finish.

  • I promise I’ll have done all the work by next Saturday.

  
  

  We don’t know exactly when he will finish the work – maybe Thursday, maybe Friday – but definitely before Saturday. 

• We don't know exactly when he will finish the work – maybe Thursday, maybe Friday – but definitely before Saturday. 

AFFIRMATIVE > Examples:

At 10 am tomorrow,

• I will be sleeping
• you will be working
• she will be studying
• it will be raining
• he will be cooking
• we will be eating breakfast
• they will be travelling

NEGATIVE:  She won't be sleeping

INTERROGATIVE: Will she be sleeping at ten tomorrow?

PRACTiCE: Complete the following sentences with the future continuous or future perfect:

1. Lucas___________(fly) to Tokyo at this time next week.

2. By the end of the year, she____________(pass) all her exams and she will go 

to University.

3. Sam___________________(work) in Madrid next summer in August.

4. _________Mark_____________(live) in Manchester next February?

5. By the end of next week, she_______________________(buy) her house.

6. I____________________(read) this book by lunch time. It's so interesting!

7. I______________(eat) at Kirk's restaurant next Saturday at 2 o'clock.

8. We___________________(finish) the exercises by the time you arrive.

ANSWERS in comment #1

The position of adverbs and adverbial phrases

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Put the words in the following sentences in the correct order:

 Example: they quickly finish work their usually very

>>>They usually finish their work very quickly.

1. she a lot drank night last.
2. she badly behaves honestly, often
3. know you never obviously can
4. please, tomorrow your car carefully drive
5. our team will probably probably and badly are playing
6. many people every year in the US are wrongly imprisoned
7. the criminal last year died in prison almost

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Narrative tenses & So/ such

1)Choose the correct option to complete the text below.

Many years ago I 1 was decidingdecidedhad decided to spend New Year’s Eve with my family. I 2 wasn’t normally spendinghadn’t normally spentdidn’t normally spend new year with my parents but I had nowhere to go, and being with my family seemed preferable to being on my own.

When my parents 3 openedwere openinghad been opening the door I could see they 4 had smiledwere smilingsmiled, and that they were genuinely happy to see me. I 5 was beinghad beenwas addicted to heroin for 10 years, and for them, seeing me was the confirmation that I wasn’t dead in an alley. Unfortunately, I 6 was havinghad hadhad nothing new or exciting to tell them, just the same sad old stories. I 7 wenthad been goingwas going from crappy job to crappy job, being invariably sacked, and I 8 resortedhad been resortingwas resorting to crime whenever I was out of money. Same old, same old.

During dinner, I 9 was drinking updrank uphad drink up a few glassfuls of whisky. I 10 had neededneededwas needing something to make ease the pain, because for the whole evening my sisters 11 had been lookinghad lookedlooked at me with such contempt that it was unbearable. My own sisters 12 were hatinghatedhad hated me. Then I had a moment of realisation; I 13 discoveredwas discoveringhad discovered that they would never hate me as much as I hated myself.

When we finished dinner I 14 had raisedraisedwas raising my glass. “I’m going into rehab,” I said. My parents 15 lookedhad lookedhad been looking at me with some kind of hope. Parents never lose hope. But my sisters just 16 lookedhad been lookinghad looked down with disdain. They 17 knewwere knowinghad knownperfectly well that I had been in rehab centres many times before, and that this time wouldn’t be different.

But this time it was different. After that day, I 18 rememberedwas rememberinghad remembered that look in my sisters’ eyes every day, every time I 19 wantedhad wantingwas wanting to shoot some heroin.  10 years later, on a New Year’s Eve, I thanked my sisters because they 20 had savedwere savinghad been savingmy life. They kissed me with their new look in their eyes, the look of love.  

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2)  Complete the sentences with so, such (a), so much, so many.

1I like my uncles. They are sosuch aso muchso manysuch nice people.

2I was surprised that he looked suchsoso manysuch aso much young at his age.

3They have suchsuch asoso manyso much money that they don’t know what to do with it.

4The game was so muchsosuch aso manysuch boring that I almost fell asleep.

5SuchSuch aSo muchSoSo many people went to the show that there weren’t enough chairs.

6We had a really good time. It was such asuchso muchso manyso pity that you couldn’t come.

7The food at the hotel was so manysosuchso muchsuch a awful that I didn’t eat it.

8I’ve never eaten suchsuch asoso manyso much awful food.

9She works such aso muchso manysosuch hard that she always looks tired.

10I couldn’t believe what happened. It was such aso manyso muchsosuch shock!

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