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.

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