Future continuous and future perfect simple

Future continuous: form

We form the future continuous with will + be + -ing.
We’ll be sitting on a beach this time tomorrow! (+)
We won’t be leaving until 5 p.m. (–)
Will you be working when I get home tonight? (?)

Future continuous: use

We use the future continuous to describe an action in progress at or around a
certain time in the future.
I’ll be watching the football at 8.30 tonight.
We also use the future continuous to predict events we expect to be in progress
at a certain time in the future.
In ten years, we’ll be using computers in very different ways.
I’ll be seeing Fasil at the conference next week.
We often use time phrases like this time next week, tomorrow at 8 p.m. and until
with the future continuous.
This time next week, I’ll be doing my final university exam.
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Future perfect: form
We form the future perfect with will + have + past participle.
We’ll have arrived by 1 p.m. (+)
We won’t have finished the report before Monday. (–)
Will people have stopped using social networks in fifty years’ time? (?)

Future perfect : use

We use the future perfect simple to describe an action completed before a
certain time in the future.
I’ll have finished my university project by the end of summer. (= I’ll finish it
before that time.)
We often use the future perfect with time expressions like in five years, in ten
years’ time, by, by the time, before and already.
I’ll have gone to bed by the time you get home.
I think that in fifty years, we’ll have invented an alternative to private cars.
 Exercises 4, 5 and 6
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4 Choose the correct options to complete the text.

Experts say that by 2030, the world’s population 1 will be increasing / will
have increased to 8.5 billion. These extra people 2 will have used / will be
using a lot more energy, so we’ll need to find new energy sources. Solar
power is one possible solution, and countries in Africa may have a big role
to play in this. For example, Morocco has recently built a huge solar power
plant in the Sahara desert, which 3 will be starting / will have started to
produce a third of the country’s energy within five years. By 2030, the
government hopes that it 4 will be producing / will have produced 52% of its
energy from solar power. They also hope that one day Morocco 5 will have
become / will be becoming energy-independent and that they 6 will be
selling / will have sold energy to other countries around the world. If
everything goes to plan, some day in the future, a person living in Europe
7 will have used / will be using electricity produced in Africa.

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5 Complete the pairs of sentences with the future continuous or future
perfect of the verbs.
won’t be sitting
1 This time next week, I ___________________ (not sit) in this office. I
will have started (start) my new job by then.
___________________
’ll be teaching
2 From 12.30 p.m. to 2.30 p.m., she ___________________ (teach). The
won’t have finished (not finish) by 2 p.m.
lesson ___________________
won’t be driving
3 In the future, most people ___________________ (not drive) petrol
will___________________
cars. But I don’t think we have stopped (stop) using petrol
completely.
’ll be passing
4 A: I ___________________ (pass) near your house tomorrow at about 4
won’t have got
p.m. Do you want to meet up? B: Sorry, but I ___________________
(not get) back from work by then.
Will
5 A: ___________________ be using
you ___________________ (use) your car this
afternoon? Or can I borrow it? My car’s in the garage and they
won't have fixed (not fix) it in time for my Spanish class.
___________________

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6 Read the information in Paula’s diary. Complete the sentences below with
either the future continuous or the future perfect of the verbs in brackets.
Use negative forms when necessary.

9 a.m. start work 3–4 phone call with client

10 – 11 meeting 6–7 go to gym
12 – 1 lunch 7.30 dinner with Greg

1 will have started

Paula ____________________ work at 9.30 a.m. (start)
2 won’t have finished by 10.45 a.m. (finish)
Her meeting ____________________
3 ’ll be having
She ____________________ lunch between 12 and 1. (have)
4 won’t be talking
She ____________________ (talk) to her client at 4.15.
5 will be working out in the gym. (work out)
At 6.30 p.m., Paula ____________________
will have been
6 She ____________________ to the gym by the time she has dinner. (go)

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