Будущее совершенное или Будущее совершенно-длительное время The Future Perfect Tense vs. The Future Perfect Continuous Tense exercises

Exercise 1.

Complete using the Future Perfect Simple or the Future Perfect Continuous of the verbs in brackets.

1.

Julia ____ (complete) her Bachelor’s Degree by June.

2.

Old Mr. Johnson will ____ (teach) maths for 30 years by the end of this term.

3.

By the time we get to Liverpool this evening, we ____ (drive) more than four hundred miles. We are going to be exhausted.

4.

They ____ (not/finish) painting the house by the time we get back from holiday.

5.

In a few minutes, I ____ (wait) here for Eric for over two hours. Where can he be?

6.

When Molly goes on vacation next month, she ____ (study) German for over two years. She should be able to communicate fairly well while she is in Austria.

7.

This time next month, you ____ (probably / pass) your driving test!

8.

By Christmas, I ____ (work) for this company for eighteen months.

9.

By the end of next month, Sam ____ (finish) the project.

10.

Martin just changed jobs again. If he keeps this up, he ____ (change) jobs at least four or five times by the end of the year.

11.

Tomorrow Helen ____ (work) on the project for ten days.

12.

At Six o’clock this evening, we ____ (not/climb) for five hours but for seven hours!

Exercise 2.

There are three mistakes in each dialogue. Find and correct them.

1.

Fred:

Lucy:

Fred:

Lucy:

Fred:

Lucy:

When are going to get your bachelor’s degree, Lucy?

I am going to finish my degree next June. By the time I graduate, I go to four different colleges and universities, and I will have studying for more than seven years.

Wow, that’s a long time!

And I plan to continue on to get a Ph.D.

Really? How long is that going to take?

By the time I finally finish studying, I have been a student for over 13 years.

2.

Steve:

Philip:

Steve:

It’s 6:00, and I have been working on my essay for over three hours.

Do you think you finished by 10:00? There’s a party at Donna’s tonight.

I will probably have been completing the essay by 10:00, but I will have worked on it for more than seven hours, and I don’t think I am going to feel like going to a party.

3.

Mike:

Alex:

Mike:

Alex:

By the time they finish their trip across Yosemite National Park, they will hiking for more than six days.

And they shan’t have been in a bed or have had a shower in almost a week!

When we pick them up, they will have been ate camping food for days, and I am sure they will be starving.

I think we had better plan on taking them directly to a restaurant.

Exercise 3.

Work in pairs. Discuss with your friend your targets and predictions for the future. What will you have achieved/ What will you have been doing by the year of 2020, 2025, 2030?

Model:

You will have become a perfect English-speaker.

You will have been studying another language for 2 years.

You will have become very rich.