FUTURE CONTINUOUS AND FUTURE PERFECT

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AS USUAL, YOU WILL BE PRESENTED THE TOPICS SEEN IN CLASS in a different way in order to have another perspective and the possibility of practising.


The future continuous (will be + ‘ing’ form) and the future perfect (will have + past participle) tenses are used to talk about events in the future.
Future continuous
·         Don’t ring at 8 o’clock. I’ll be watching Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
·         This time tomorrow we’ll be sitting on the beach. I can’t wait!
We use the future continuous to talk about something that will be in progress at or around a time in the future.
·         Don’t phone grandma now, she’ll be having dinner.
·         The kids are very quiet. They’ll be doing something wrong, I know it!
These sentences are not about the future but we can use the future continuous to talk about what we assume is happening at the moment.
Future Perfect
·         Do you think you will have finished it by next Thursday?
·         In 5 years time I’ll have finished university and I’ll be able to earn some money at last.
We use the future perfect to say that something will be finished by a particular time in the future.

We often use the future perfect with ‘by’ or ‘in’
·         I think astronauts will have landed on Mars by the year 2020.
·         I’ll have finished in an hour and then you can use the computer.
‘By’ means ‘not later than a particular time’ and ‘in’ means 'within a period of time’. We don’t know exactly when something will finish.
·         I promise I’ll have done all the work by next Saturday.
We don’t know exactly when he will finish the work – maybe Thursday, maybe Friday – but definitely before Saturday. 
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  1. Juan Andrés ZambranoJun 6, 2016, 5:39:00 PM

    It is a website that explains very well each topic, grammar, how to use and understand in a different, interesting and playful way.
    The topic I liked the most was the future continuous and future perfect.
    The future continuous is used to express actions that occur at a specific time in the future, for example: She will be flying to New York at this time next week. The structure is: Subject+will be+ V-ing+complements, in the case of a negative form the structure is the same but with won't be, and in the interrogative way: Will+Subject+be+V-ing+Complements?
    The future perfect is used to express an action that ends at a certain time in the future, for example: By the end of next week, she will have bought her house. The structure is: Subject+will have+p+complements, in negative form is with won`t have, and interrogative way: Will+subject+p+complements?

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