Ex.23. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form, the Future Perfect or the Future Perfect Continuous.

Ex.21. Put the verbs in brackets into the Future Perfect.

THE FUTURE PERFECT versus THE FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS

Ex.20. Choose the correct variant to complete the sentences. Explain your choice.

1. I’ve got toothache again. I see/ am seeing the dentist this afternoon.

2. I’m going to the supermarket. - You’d better be quick then as it is going to close /closes at eight o’clock.

3. I know exactly. When we arrive, she will pick/ will be picking cherries.

4. Is Janet coming to the theatre with us next Saturday? - I don’t know, but I’ll be seeing /I am going to see her in the fitness club tomorrow. I’ll ask her then.

5. I’ll call you as soon as I arrive /will arrive at the airport.

6. I’m sure when I get home my dog will sit/ will be sitting at the door waiting for me.

7. I doubt if she passes/ will pass her exams.

8. If you ask/ will ask Bob nicely, I’m sure he will help you.

9. Don’t call Amanda between 8 and 9. She will put/ will be putting her child into bed.

10. He will finish his course paper when he will have/ has all the material.

1. Let’s hope they ____________ (repair) the road by the end of this summer.

2. The train ____________ (leave) by that time. We have to look for another way to get there.

3. He _________ (not graduate) from university by May.

4. Don’t say anything. You _________ (forget) me by then.

5. By Christmas, Patrick and his wife ________(be married) for 20 years.

6. My uncle _________ (retire) by the end of this year.

7. _______ you ______(buy) a new printer by the end of this week?

8. By the time you get home we _________ (clean) the house from top to bottom.

9. I _________ (not complete) the report until 5 o’clock. Will you help me?

10. We’d better wait till the end of the month. Charles ________ (pass) his exams by then, so we’ll be able to travel together.

Ex.22. Say or write what they will have been doing by the end of this year.

Be attentive: state verbs cannot have the Perfect Continuous Tense form.

Model:

My brother /run/ his own business/ five years –

By the end of this year, my brother will have been running his own business for five years.

1. Monica /design clothes/ three years.

2. My father/work for the same company/ ten years.

3. Elizabeth /be in this job/six years.

4. My friend Kevin/ study/Economics/ four years.

5. They/ build their new house/ two years.

6. William Brown/train the Irish national basketball team/ five years.

7. The Greens /live in this house/ twenty years.

8. Martha /specialize in growing tulips/ about four years.

9. Helen /play the piano/over ten years.

10. Her elder brother Nick/play football/ five years.

1. Television began broadcasting in 1947. By the year 2017, people ____________ (watch) TV for 70 years.

2. Tom is on holiday and he is spending his money very quickly. If he continues like this, he ____________ (spend) all his money before the end of his holiday.

3. I came to England six months ago. I started my economics course three months ago. When I return to Australia, I ____________ (study) for nine months and I ____________ (be) in England for exactly one year.

4. By the time they arrive, we ____________ (go) home.

5. We won’t make a decision until we ____________ (consult) everyone.

6. You only imagine! You ____________ (fly) non-stop for fourteen hours before you get to Kolkata.

7. In June, my grandmother and grandfather ________ (be married) for fifty years.

8. The party ____________ (go) for ages by the time we arrive.

9. You _________ (perfect) your English by the time you come back from the US.

10. By the time we get to Chicago this evening, we ____________ (drive) more than four hundred miles. We are going to be exhausted.