Future
Continuous &
Perfect
Future Continuous
will + be + verb-ing
This time next week
we’ll be sitting on the
beach.
A: Where do I meet you?
B: I’ll be waiting for you
outside the cinema.
Use Future Continuous
to talk about an action that will be in
progress at a specific point in the
future.
At seven o’clock tomorrow I will
be playing soccer.
Use Future Continuous
to talk about planned events, or
events that we expect to happen.
(Similar to the present continuous for
arrangements)
I’ll be going to the mall later. Is
there anything you need?
Use Future Continuous
to predict what is happening now.
Try phoning the school. He’ll
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.
Future Perfect
will + have + verb (past participle)
By the time we get
to the movies, the
film will have already
started.
Use Future Perfect
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.
By June, he will have
payed his debt.
By May, she will have
bought a car.
She’ll have looked at a
lot of cars by then.
Future Perfect Continuous
will + have + been verb-ing
The party started early.
So, by midnight we will
have been celebrating for
many hours.
Use Future Perfect Continuous
to say how long an action or event
will have been in progress at a
specific time in the future.
By the time he is
eighteen, he will have
been learning French for
ten years.
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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