1.13. Future Perfect Continuous

Exercise 118. Translate into Russian and comment on the use of the Future Perfect Pro­gressive Tense.

1. They will have been working for five hours already when we come and join them.

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

3. They will have been trying to solve this problem for two years by 1994.

4. She'll have been writing an essay since eight o'clock when her friends come.

5. The students will have been answering for a whole hour al­ready by twelve o'clock.

6. Next Christmas I’ll have been teaching for twenty years.

7. Next year John will have been living in New York for 6 years.

8. Tomorrow I’ll have been going sightseeing since morning and in the evening I’ll go to a restaurant.

9. Great! We’ll have been learning traditions of other countries for a month.

Exercise 119. Use the Future Perfect Continuous for each sentence.

1. They already (rehearse) for an hour when we come.

2. I (work) in this company for 10 years next April.

3. By next year he (writing) the novel for three years.

4. The thieves are sure that they (drive) for 6 hours when the police discover the robbery in the morning.

5. They (study) for 3 hours when you come.

6. By May he (live) abroad for six months.

Exercise 120. Use the Future Perfect Simple or Future Perfect Continuous for each sentence.

1. I (not finish) the report by Monday, and it's needed for Monday morning.

2. When I get home tonight I (drive) for fourteen hours non-stop.

3. In a couple of years the children (leave) home and we'll be able to get a smaller house.

4. On our next wedding anniversary we (be married) for twenty-five years.

5. When I retire I (work) for forty years.

Exercise 121. A romantic novelist writes 300-page books. She writes ten pages a day, and takes no holidays. Use the future perfect simple or continuous to answer the questions.

1. How many pages will she have written after ten days? After a month? After a year? After ten years?

2. If she starts today, how soon will she have finished her first book? How many books will she have written a year from now?

3. How long will she have been writing when she has written 120 books?

4. She earns £100,000 per book. How much money will she have made altogether after her 120th book?

Exercise 122. Use the Future Perfect Continuous Tense or the Present Simple.

1. He (cook) dinner for three hours when you (come).

2. He (learn) French for six years already when he (en­ter) this college.

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

4. We (have) dinner for half an hour tomorrow when he (call) for us.

5. By July I she (live) here for five years.

6. When you (enter) the University you (study) languages for more than ten years.

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

8. They (quarrel) for more than an hour until the police (come)!

9. The student (read) up for their exam for more that three hours already by the time we (come) to the library and (join) them!

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

11. They (ask) me silly questions for two hours by twelve. Why they (not stop)?