Future Perfect Continuous

Future Perfect Continuous

Created by: Kenneth Sahuleka

Have you ever heard of the future perfect continuous tense?

Would you like to guess what its use is?

What is the future perfect continuous?

• It's a tense used for talking about actions that will continue to happen until a certain point in the future.

• This May, Mimi will have been visiting us for 3 years.

• By the end of this year, I will have been teaching English for 6 years.

• At 5 o'clock, he will have been waiting for 30 minutes.

How do we use the future perfect continuous?

• Like this:

• subject + will have been + verb-ing (present participle)

• In November + subject + will have been + work (verb-ing) + at my company for three years.

• In November, I will have been working at my company for three years.

• Notice that the time indicator (In November...) almost always start future perfect continuous sentences.

Right then, let's practice for a bit.

Any questions before we begin?

Multiple Choice

Which answer is future perfect continuous?

In a month, Jake _____ at St. John for four years.

• will have been studying

• will be studying

• will have studied

• would have been studying

Multiple Choice

Which answer is future perfect continuous?

If we win this match, we _____ our title for 5 years.

• will have protected

• have protected

• will have been protecting

• will be protecting

Multiple Choice

Which answer is future perfect continuous?

By 2022, I _____ in Indonesia for 27 years.

• will have lived

• will have been living

• will be living

• will live

Open Ended

Write a sentence in the future perfect continuous affirmative.

How was it?

Too easy? Too hard? Just right?

Future Perfect Continuous Negative

• Negative = No

• subject + will not have been + verb-ing

• In a few hours, I (subject) + will not have been + cook (verb-ing) + soup, mainly because I'm itching to make and eat sushi.

• In a few hours, I will not have been cooking soup, mainly because I'm itching to make and eat sushi.

• To be perfectly honest, the negative form of the future perfect continuous is very rarely used, and does sound kinda weird.

Future Perfect Continuous Interrogative

• Interrogative = Used to ask questions.

• will + subject + have been + verb-ing

• I'll probably be there in an hour or two. Will + you (subject) + have been + wait (verb-ing) for too long by then?

• I'll probably be there in an hour or two. Will you have been waiting for too long by then?

• Yup, the interrogative also sounds weird, and isn't used very often either.

Right then, let's start the 2nd practice session?

Are you ready?

Multiple Choice

Which answer is future perfect continuous negative?

By midnight, I _____ the piano for hours. Because I'm planning to play video games in secret.

• will have been practicing

• will not have been practicing

• will not be practicing

• won't be practicing

Multiple Choice

Which answer is future perfect continuous negative?

If only we had recruited him for our team. If that happened, he _____ against us in the next season.

• will not score

• will have been scoring

• will not be scoring

• will not have been scoring

Open Ended

Let's try to write a future perfect continuous negative sentence.

Multiple Choice

Which answer is future perfect continuous interrogative?

_____ Mandarin for seven months this October?

• will I be learning

• will I have been learning

• will I have learned

• have I been learning

Multiple Choice

Which answer is future perfect continuous interrogative?

Next week, _____ in New York for a month?

• will you have been living

• will you be living

• have you been living

• will you live

Open Ended

Can you write a future perfect continuous interrogative sentence?

Well, that's all we need to know about the future perfect continuous tense!

Is it weird?

Do you think you'll be using this tense often?