Future perfect, Future continuous, future 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.

Take notes!!

Future Continuous

Future Perfect

Future Perfect Continuous

Future Continuous

What's in a name? 

Future

Continuous

will

be + verb + -ing

Examples

I will be eating

You will be sleeping

He will be reading

We will be studying

They will be taking

Future Continuous

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

2) make polite enquiries about the future

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 polite enquiry

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

Will you be studying hard for the test? 

Future continuous

questions

Will you be doing the test on Monday?

negations

I won't be doing the test on Monday.

By 2050
Many people ... on the moon

1. will be living
2. will have lived

By 2050
We ... all our shopping online

1. will be doing
2. will have done

Future Perfect

What's in a name? 

Future

Perfect

will

have + past participle

Examples

I will have eaten

You will have slept

He will have read

We will have studied

They will have taken

Future Perfect

to talk about a completed action in the past

examples:

    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

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

What's in a name? 

Future

Perfect

Continuous 

will

have + past participle

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

- usually with for

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

examples:

    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

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

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."