Exercises

1. Explain the use of the Future Perfect Continuous forms. Translate into Russian. Start like this:

Model: I shall have been living there for five years next February. (The verb to live is used in its Future Perfect Continuous tense form to denote an action which begins before a certain moment of time in the future and goes on up to that moment or into it.)

1. We will have been working for 5 hours already when we come and join them.

2. By the first of June he will have been working here for 14 years.

3. They will have been trying to solve this problem for 2 years by 2009.

4. She will have been writing an essay since 8 when her friends come.

5. The students will have been answering the whole hour already by 12.

6. She’ll have been talking for 2 hours already by 4.

7. Someone will have been playing the piano for 3 hours by midnight.

8. He will have been studying English for 10 months by the time he goes back to Syria in October.

9. They’ll have been sitting here quite a while by the time we return.

10. He is never going to stop talking. In 15 minutes we’ll have been listening to his lecture for 3 hours!

11. Ned will have had his driver's license for over two years.

12. She will have been working at that company for three years when it finally closes.

2. Transform into negative and interrogative forms.

1. This is a long trip! By the time we get to NY, we’ll have been riding on this bus for over 15 hours.

2. I have been sitting at this desk for an hour. By 11.00 I’ll have been sitting here for 2 hours.

3. By the end of next year I’ll have been working for him for 40 years.

4. I’ll go to bed at 10 p.m. He’ll get home at midnight. I’ll have been sleeping for 2 hours by the time he gets home.

5. By the time they reach the finish line, they’ll have been running steadily for more than 2 hours.

6. I’ll have been reading this book for 2 hours by the time you come back.

7. My aunt’ll have been working at this plant for 10 years by the end of December.

8. By the time we get to the party, they’ll have been eating for 2 hours.

9. By the 3^rd of January they’ll have been passing their exams for 2 weeks.

10. In 10 minutes the phone’ll have been ringing for 20 minutes already.

11. By the time my alarm-clock rings I'll have been sleeping for 8 hours.

12. We will be making a rest stop in half an hour, because you will have been driving the car for 6 hours by then.

3. Open the brackets. Use the Future Perfect Continuous.

1. He (to write) a letter for 3 hours when you come.

2. He (to learn) French for 6 years already when he enters the college.

3. She (to watch) this film for an hour already when you ring her up.

4. You (to have) dinner for half an hour tomorrow when he calls for us.

5. By July he (to live) here for 5 years.

6. When you enter the University, you (to study) languages for more than 10 years.

7. The painter (to work) on this landscape for almost a year by Christmas.

8. They (to quarrel) for more than an hour when the police come.

9. The students (to read) up for their exams for more than 3 hours already by the time we come to the library and join them.

10. They (to travel) for almost a year by Christmas, but they don’t want to return.

11. We (to be married) a year on June 25th.

12. He (write) this book for 3 months by the end of this week.