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How long will Francis and his friends have been doing the following things

by the end of their school holidays?

Example: Francis - stay at his grandma's place


Francis will have been staying at his grandma's place for three weeks.

Samantha - travel round the world


Melanie - work at a summer camp
Robert - learn Spanish at a language school
Kevin - work on his house
Carol - practise beach volleyball
Peter - do community work
Naomi - take care of her neighbour's dog
Judy - attend driving school
Ben - climb mountains
Tom - do nothing

1) Samantha .............................................................for a month.


2) Melanie ................................................................for six weeks.
3) Robert ................................................ for two months.
4) Kevin ..................................................all the time.
5) Carol ..............................................for more than a month.
6) Peter ..............................................for three weeks.
7) Naomi ................................... for a couple of weeks.
8) Judy ...................................... for quite a long time.
9) Ben ..................... for a fortnight. (a period of 2 weeks)
10) Tom.......................................all the time.

Rewrite the following sentences. Use the underlined verbs and keep the
same meaning using Future Perfect Continuous.
1) It will rain for 24 hours and it will stop raining in the morning.
When it stops raining in the morning, it ........................... for 24 hours.
2) I'll learn French for seven years and then I leave school.
I ......................................................................................... French for seven years
before I leave school.
3) We moved to Hastings 18 years ago and we will live here for another two
years.
In a two year's time we ...........................................at this place for two decades.
4) I'll work in my office for a couple of hours and you'll get up at last.
By the time you get up I ..................................................................... in my
office for a couple of hours.
5) The farmer's family started picking strawberries last Friday and they will
continue till Friday.
On Friday the farmer's family .......................................................strawberries for
a week.
6) In Monaco it will be one month since Darren started sailing on his yacht.
Darren ..................................................................... on his yacht for a month
when he lands in Monaco.
7) The computer will update its operating system first. It will start working
in five minutes.
The computer .....................................its operating system for about five minutes
before it starts working.
8) We used the Internet for the first time nearly twenty years ago.
By the end of this year we ............................ the Internet for twenty years.
9) In July it will be one year since Maggie started singing in the choir.
In July Maggie ..............................in the choir for a year.
10) Shall I turn off the gas? It will be 10.15 and the water has nearly been
boiling for twenty minutes.
Shall I turn off the gass? The water ...................... for twenty minutes at 10.15

Put the verbs in brackets in the future perfect. Use the future perfect
continuous where possible.

1. Don’t arrive at the cinema after 9 o’clock. The film______________


(already/start).
2. If he doesn’t arrive soon, I _________________(wait) for almost an hour.
3. By the end of our holidays, we_____________(meet) so many interesting
people.
4. How long________________ (you/live) here this time next year?
5. How many books _____________ (you/read) by this time next year?
6. Mark and Julia fight almost every day. By next year, I think
they______(divorce).
7. Call me back in an hour. My job interview ______ (finish) by then.
8. She’ll be very tired when she gets here. She____________ (travel) for almost
two days.
9. Don’t come too early. The film__________(not/download) fully.
10. You should wake him up in an hour. He __________(sleep) for almost 12
hours!
11. I hope John doesn’t lose his voice at the end of the concert. He
_________(sing) all evening.

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