masterMind Level 2

Unit 6 Grammar 2

FUTURE PERFECT
PROGRESSIVE
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1. Who is using the future perfect progressive?

2. Which tense is the other speaker using?present perfect
3. Can you notice an error? progressive

A: How long
have they
been being
working on this?

B: B By the endend
By the of this
of this
month they’ll
month have
they’ll been
have been
working
workingon
onititfor
forsix
sixmonths.
months.
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1. Identify the future perfect progressive in each sentence.

2. What time does the future perfect progressive relate to?
By 2030, students won’t have been taking written
exams for at least 10 years.
They’ll have been using computers in classrooms
instead of teachers for years by the time my children
go to school.
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TIP Use the future perfect progressive to talk about an action or
situation happening for a period of time until a specific future time.
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More examples of the future perfect progressive:

• When we get home, our wonderful robot will have

been cleaning the house all day! It’ll look amazing!
• It’s Jack’s anniversary next month. Do you realize
he’ll have been working in Robotics for 50 years?
• You won’t have been studying there for very long
by the time you get your doctorate, will you?
• How long will the team have been working on the
project by the end of the year?
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Forms Examples

Did you know that by the time

we retire, we’ll all have been
will/won’t + working for more than 40
have + been + years?
–ing form
Maybe so, but I’m sure I won’t
have been doing the same job
for 40 years.
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We use the future perfect progressive to talk about an

action or situation that is happening for a period of time
up to a specific time in the future.

1. Tomorrow, I’ll have been waiting for a response to

my paper on Computers and Life in 2025 for a month.
future perfect progressive: action will be in progress
2. By 2025, life will be very different; most people will
have become accustomed to letting machines do the
boring jobs we have to do today.
future perfect: action will be completed
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Complete the sentences with the future perfect

progressive forms of the verbs in parentheses.
will have been producing
1. By January, the company ______________________
(produce) robotic replacements for damaged
organs for three years.
2. Before the end of this decade, scientists
will have been developing (develop) new
_________________________
technologies for growing food for over fifty years.
3. How long _______________________
will you have been using (you / use)
this particular technology when it’s officially
launched?
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Complete the sentences using the future perfect

progressive or future perfect form of the verb.
1. The surgeon will have been working (work) with a
____________________
robot assistant for three years when he finishes his
contract.
will have become
2. Do you really think people will __________________
(become) used to having their lives controlled by
computers by 2050?
3. She’s tired. She ’ll have been sitting (sit) in front of
__________________
her computer all day by the time she finishes this.
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Talk with a partner about:

• how robots and computers change the way

we live in our homes

• how you think people will feel about having

robots in their homes
Use the future perfect and future perfect
progressive for your predictions and opinions.
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Grammar wrap-up
1. You can use the future perfect progressive to
describe an action or situation that is ___ a
specific time in the future.
a. in progress for a period of time up to
b. completed by
2. We form the future perfect progressive with
will + have + been + ___.
a. past participle
b. –ing form