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MUHI English; Empowering Your English

Task 16
Study the use of Future Continuous Tense and Future Perfect.

I will have done something (future perfect) = it will be complete before a time in the future.
For example:
(a) Sally always leaves for work at 8.30 in the morning. She won’t be at home at 9 o’clock –
she’ll have gone to work.
(b) We’re late. The film will already have started by the time we get to the cinema.

Compare:
Ted and Amy have been married for 24 years. (present perfect)
Next year they will have been married for 25 years. (future perfect)
When their son was born, they had been married for three years. (past perfect)

Picture 3.10
We use the future continuous (subject + will + be + verb + -ing) to talk about situations and
events that will be in progress at a time in the future.
(a) We’ll be walking home at four o’clock.
(b) Mr. Smith won’t be teaching us this time next year.
(c) ‘Will you be doing your homework at five o’clock this afternoon?’ ‘Yes, I will./ No, I won’t.’

We can also use the future continuous to talk about a single action which will happen because
it is part of a bigger future plan or schedule.
The runners will be leaving here at six o’clock tomorrow morning. (will leave/are leaving are
also possible here.)

We use the future perfect (subject + will + have + past participle) when we predict events that
will be completed before a specific time in the future.
The film will have finished by eight o’clock. I won’t have had lunch before I see you.
‘Will you have finished that book by the end of the week?’
‘Yes, I will. /No, I won’t.

Task 17
Which tense? Complete the questions with the future continuous or future perfect tense
of the verb in brackets.
Will you be studying (you/ study) at this school six months from now?
1. (you/ do your homework) by eight o’clock this evening?
2. What (you / do) at three o’clock tomorrow morning?
3. (you / change) your hairstyle by April next year?
4. Where (you / live) three years from now?
5. What (you / do) five years from now?

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