🎨 Future: simple, perfect simple, perfect continuous

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What is the difference in meaning between the following sentences?
1. Next week we will have learned the future perfect.
2. Next week we will be learning the future continuous.

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Future Continuous

Future Perfect

Future Perfect Continuous

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that are useful to you!

Future Continuous

Future                                      Continuous

will

What's in a name? 

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[be ]+ verb + -ing

Future Continuous

will

[be ]+ verb + -ing

What's in a name? 

Future

Continuous

will

[be ]+ verb + -ing

Examples of the Future Continuous

I will be eating.

You will be sleeping.

He will be reading.

We will be studying.

They will be taking.

Future Continuous: Use

1) To talk about an unfinished action in progress in the future.

2)To talk about planned or routine future events, actions, or situations.

3) To form polite questions or requests.

examples of 

action in progress in the future

This time tomorrow we’ll be sitting on the beach. I can’t wait!

Don’t ring at 8 o’clock. I’ll be watching Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

examples of 

routine or planned future events (etc.)

After work I’ll be going to the supermarket.

My whole family will be visitng for the holidays.

examples of 

polite enquiry

Will you be dining in a fancy restaurant on Valentine's Day?

 Will she be studying hard for the test? 

[that is sometime in the future]

Future continuous:  Forms

Statements:

I will be taking the test on Monday.

Questions:

Will you be taking the test on Monday?

Negations:

I won't be taking the test on Monday.

By 2050
Many people ... on the moon

1. will be living
2. will have lived
3. will been lived

By 2050
We ... all our shopping online

1. will be doing
2. will have done

Future Perfect

Future                                           Perfect

will

have + past participle

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What's in a name? 

Future

Perfect

will

have + past participle

Examples of the Future Perfect

I will have eaten.

You will have slept.

He will have read.

We will have studied.

They will have talked.

Future Perfect

to talk about a situation or action 

that will be completed before a certain time in the future.

Use the

examples of 

an action that will be completed before a certain time in the future

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

I think astronauts will have landed on Mars by the year 2020.

Future perfect:  Forms

Statements:

I will have finished this task by tomorrow. 

Questions:

Will you have finished this task by tomorrow? 

Negations:

I won't have finished this task by tomorrow.

By 2050
The polar icecaps ... completely.

1. will be melting
2. will have melted

By 2050
All marine life ... : There will be no life in the oceans

1. will be dying
2. will have died

Future Perfect Continuous

Future               Perfect           Continuous

will

See the pattern?

[be ]+ verb + -ing

have + past participle

What's in a name? 

Future

Perfect

Continuous 

will

have + past participle

[be ]+ verb + -ing

Examples

I will have been eating

You will have been sleeping

He will have been reading

We will have been studying

They will have been taking

Future Perfect Continuous

-to talk about actions or states which will have been in progress for some time by a certain time in the future.  

AKA: to say how long something has been going on in the future

Use the

** for  is often used **

Future Perfect Continuous

time expressions 

• by 2030/next month/next year
• by then
• by the time
• in....time --> 

       in two days'/three weeks'/ten years' time  

examples of 

saying how long something has been going on in the future

 I’ll have been traveling/travelling for three months in July. 

These astronauts will have been staying in the ISS for three months when they get back.

Future perfect continuous:  Forms

Statements:

 I will have been fishing for three weeks by then.

Questions:

Will you have been fishing for three weeks then?

Negations:

I won't have been staying in this hotel for two weeks on Saturday. 

Mr T ........... for 50 years in 2025.

1. will be acting
2. will have been acting
3. will have acted

Mixed questions

Type the missing words.

Today is Monday. I am doing my driving test next Thursday.
"This time next week I ... (do) my driving test."

You always have dinner at 8 p.m. What about tonight?
"... (have) at 8 p.m. tonight?"

The film starts at 7.30. We haven't arrived yet.
"The film ... (start) by the time we arrive"

We are living in this house now. We're moving in February.
"Next year, we ... (move) out of this house."