Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Future perfect

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Future perfect continuous

by Diana M

​The future perfect

​Future perfect

​The future perfect tense is used for an action that will be finished before a stated time in the future.

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​Example: By the 21st, I will have finished my project.

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(Today is the 3rd, so I am talking about the future, but an action that will be finished before the 21st.)

​Signal words for the future perfect tense:

• ​by that time

• ​by the time

• ​by Monday

• ​by the end of the month (year, week, day)

• ​before

• ​until

• ​by then

• ​by 5 o'clock

• ​by tomorrow

• ​by next week, month, year, century

Multiple Select

Select ALL of the sentences that are in future perfect.

• By the end of the day, he will have finished all of his classes. 

• I will help you answer this activity. 

• I will have arrived at the office by 8-

• She'll have forgotten everything.

Multiple Select

Select the marker words for the future perfect tense:

• before (time)...

• by (time)...

• before (time)...

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct structure for the Future Perfect tense:

• Subject+ will have + verb in past participle

• Subject + will had + verb in past participle

• Subject + will + verb

Multiple Choice

She __________ eight hours till early in the morning.

• will have slept

• have slept

• slept

Multiple Choice

By June, I ___________ my passport.

• will get

• will has gotten

• will have gotten

Multiple Choice

Tom __________ for 16 hours by the time he leaves the office.

• have worked

• will have worked

• will work

Multiple Choice

By Sunday, I __________ this novel.

• will finish

• will have finished

Multiple Choice

She _________ the cookies before we arrive.

• will have baked

• have baked

• will have bak

Multiple Choice

When __________ your assignment?

• will you have completed

• you will have completed

• will you complete

Multiple Choice

They ___________ around the world before they come to Norway.

• will have traveled

• will travel

• will be traveling

Fill in the Blanks

By the time the doctor arrives, the patient

(take) medicine.

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By December, I

(complete) my course.

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By this time next year, I

(be)  10 years in my job.

​The future perfect continuous

​The future perfect continuous

​The future perfect continuous is used to emphasize the duration of an action up to a certain time in the future.

​Examples

• ​By the end of next month, she will have been teaching for twenty years. ​

• ​This shop will have been serving customers for 5 years by this time next year.

​Signal words for the future perfect continuous:

​For....,

​for the last couple of hours,

​all day long

Multiple Choice

Select the grammar structure for the future perfect continuous:

• S + will have been + verb in ING

• S+ had been + verb in ING

• S+ will be

Multiple Choice

Select the main use for the future perfect continuous:

• To emphasize the duration of an action up to a certain time in the future

• To talk about the future

• Predictions, plans or promises

Multiple Choice

(future perfect continuous)

By the end of this month we _____________ together for six years.

• will have been living

• will have live

• will be living

Multiple Choice

(future perfect continuous)

By midnight we ______ this videogame for 48 hours.

• have will been playing

• will play

• will have been playing

Multiple Choice

(future perfect continuous)

By the end of the week I _________ here four four months.

• will have been working

• will be working

• will working

Multiple Choice

By dinner, she _______ the whole afternoon.

• will have been cooking

• will cooked

• will cook

• will have be cooking

Fill in the Blanks

By the end of the term she

( not study) for nine years.

Fill in the Blanks

(future perfect continuous)

By next year, I

(study) English for 7 years. 

Multiple Choice

____________ a bath since morning?

• Will he have been taking

• he will have been taking

Fill in the Blanks

Jessica

(help) them for 12 months.

Fill in the Blanks

By this time tomorrow, I

(do) this exercise for a long time. 

Poll

Personal question:

How well did you understand these topics?

• Very well!

• Good, but I need to study the future perfect more.

• Good, but I need to study the future perfect continuous more.

• Not so well, I need to review and practice more.