Употребление the Future Perfect Continuous (Progressive) Tense
Действие, которое будет длиться вплоть до определенного момента в будущем.
| By next summer we’ll have been living here for ten years. | К следующему лету мы будем жить здесь уже в течение 10 лет. |
EXERCISES
| Exercise 1. | Open the brackets using the verb in the Future Perfect Continuous. |
| 1. | Lucy ____ (to study) in London for two years when I come here. |
| 2. | Mark ____ (to teach) German for two years when I begin to teach English. |
| 3. | By next July she ____ (to live) here for five years. |
| 4. | At six o’clock I ____ (to work) for five hours. |
| 5. | I ____ (to work) at the library for 8 hours when you come there. |
| 6. | By next summer we ____ (to live) here for ten years. |
| 7. | You ____ (to study) English for five years by the next spring. |
| Exercise 2. | Look through the given information and answer to the question using the Future Perfect Continuous. Use by the timeif necessary. There may be more than one answer. |
| Model: | Doctors began using morphine in the 1860s.How long will doctors have been using morphine by 2020? |
| Doctors will have been using morphine for about 160 years by 2020. |
| 1. | Alex started writing his book in November. How long will he have been writing his book by May? |
| 2. | Fred became a computer programmer in 1997. He is still a computer programmer. How long will he have been a computer programmer in 2030? |
| 3. | People began taking pictures in the 1830’s. How long will people have been taking pictures by 2080? |
| 4. | Emma started looking for a job on Sunday. How long will Emma have been looking for a job on Tuesday? |
| 5. | The Greens moved to Manchester in 1995. They have lived there ever since. How long will the Greens have been living in Manchester by the end of the year? |
| Exercise 3. | What will the following people have been doing by the end of next month? Using the prompts below, make sentences, as in the example. |
| Model: | Bryan/travel/eight years |
| At the end of next month, Bryan will have been travelling for eight years. |
| 1. | Kevin/run/own business/five years |
| 2. | Grace/star in films/nine years |
| 3. | Anita/design clothes/six years |
| 4. | Harry/build houses/seven years |
| 5. | Jack/paint/thirteen years |
| 6. | Diana/teach children/eight years |
| Exercise 4. | Work in pairs. Discuss with your group mate what you will have been doing by the time you finish University. |
| Model: | SA: By the time I finish University I will have been learning English for 11 years. And what about you? |
| SB: As for me ____ |
| 1. | To dance (4 years) |
| 2. | To live in a hostel (5 years) |
| 3. | To work on the project |
| 4. | To do yoga |
| 5. | To climb mountains |
| 6. | To learn geometry |
| 7. | To learn a foreign language |
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. |