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Future Continuous and Future Perfect Grammar and Interactive Exercises

FUTURE CONTINUOUS

We can use the future continuous (will/won't be + -ing form) to talk about future actions that:

1. Will be in progress at a specific time in the future. Examples:

When you come out of school tomorrow, I'll be boarding a plane.

You can visit us during the first week of July. I won't be working then.

Try to call before 8 o'clock. After that, we'll be watching the match.

2. The Future Continuous can also be used to talk about actions we see as new, different or temporary:

Today we're taking the bus but next week we'll be taking the train.

She'll be staying with her parents for several months while her mother is in recovery.

Can you write your own sentences now?

FUTURE PERFECT

We use the future perfect simple (will/won't have + past participle) to talk about something that will be completed before a specific time in the future.

The guests are coming at 8 p.m. I'll have finished cooking by then.

On 9 October we'll have been married for 50 years.

Will you have gone to bed when I get back?

We can use phrases like by or by the time (meaning 'at some point before') and in or in a day's time / in two months' time / in five years' time etc. (meaning 'at the end of this period') to give the time period in which the action will be completed.

Can you write your own sentences now?

INTERACTIVE EXERCISES

PDF Exercise to be printed

Grammar Adapted from https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/

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