Future

Continuous &
Perfect

Future Continuous
will + be + verb-ing
This time next week
well be sitting on the
beach.

A: Where do I meet you?
B: Ill be waiting for you
outside the cinema.
to talk about an action that will be in
progress at a specific point in the
future.
Use Future Continuous
At seven oclock tomorrow I will
be playing soccer.
to talk about planned events, or
events that we expect to happen.
(Similar to the present continuous for
arrangements)
Use Future Continuous
Ill be going to the mall later. Is
there anything you need?
to predict what is happening now.
Use Future Continuous
Try phoning the school. Hell
probably still be having lunch.
Can you let me know
what time you will be
arriving?
Use WILL
to ask extremely politely about
future plans.
By the time we get
to the movies, the
film will have already
started.
Future Perfect
will + have + verb (past participle)
to talk about a completed action or
event in the future / to look back from
the future to an earlier event, often
with BY or BY THE TIME.
Use Future Perfect
By June, he will have
payed his debt.
By May, she will have
bought a car.
Shell have looked at a
lot of cars by then.


The party started early.
So, by midnight we will
have been celebrating for
many hours.
Future Perfect Continuous
will + have + been verb-ing
By the time he is
eighteen, he will have
been learning French for
ten years.
Use Future Perfect Continuous
to say how long an action or event
will have been in progress at a
specific time in the future.
Bibliography

FALLA, Tim. Solutions Upper-Intermediate, Oxford,
2009
FUCHS, Marjorie & BONNER, Margaret. Grammar
Express, Longman, 2003
VINCE, Michael. Macmillan English Grammar in
Context, Macmillan, 2008





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