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03 Future Perfect Continuous

1) The document discusses the future perfect simple and future continuous tenses and how they are used to talk about activities that will be finished or in progress at specific times in the future. 2) It provides examples of each tense and asks the reader to complete sentences using the correct future tense. The sentences are about space travel predictions over the next 100 years, including that humans will have colonized other planets by the time the Pioneer 10 spacecraft passes a certain star. 3) The reader is also asked to complete sentences using their own ideas and the future tenses to talk about what they will be doing or will have done at various points in the future.

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03 Future Perfect Continuous

1) The document discusses the future perfect simple and future continuous tenses and how they are used to talk about activities that will be finished or in progress at specific times in the future. 2) It provides examples of each tense and asks the reader to complete sentences using the correct future tense. The sentences are about space travel predictions over the next 100 years, including that humans will have colonized other planets by the time the Pioneer 10 spacecraft passes a certain star. 3) The reader is also asked to complete sentences using their own ideas and the future tenses to talk about what they will be doing or will have done at various points in the future.

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Future perfect simple and future continuous


Future perfect simple and future 2 Complete the text. Use the correct form of
continuous the future perfect simple or future
continuous.
Use
We use the future perfect simple to talk about an What 1……………… we ……………… (do) in
activity that will be finished by a specific time in a hundred years’ time? According to NASA
the future. Scientists we 2……………… (travel) in outer
They‘ll have finished building the bridge by space. By the twenty-second century man
next January.
3
……………… (develop) a quick way of getting
We use the future continuous to talk about an to the stars, and the first long-distance paceships
activity that will be in progress at a specific time
4
……………… (leave) Earth.
in the future.
This time next week I’ll be flying to Rome. However, these spaceships won’t be the first to
Form explore outer space. Other spaceships
Future perfect simple: we use will + have/has + ……………… (already / voyage) into the
past participle. unknown. In fact, the first unmanned ship,
I’ll have finished my homework in an hour. Pioneer 10, was launched in 1972. Pioneer 10
Future continuous: we use will + be + the -ing will be in space for thousands of years, and in
form of the verb. 32,000 years’ time it will pass a star called Ross
In an hour, I’ll be getting ready to go out. 248.

By the time Pioneer 10 gets there, man


1 Complete the sentences. Use the correct 6
……………… (already / reach) Ross 248 and
form of the future perfect simple or the 7
……………… (colonize) the planets around it.
future continuous. What 8
……………… these humans
1 This time next week we ……………… (ski) ……………… (do) when Pioneer 10 passes by?
in the French Alps. Will they remember that it was the first
spaceship to venture into outer space?
2 Greg is taking a year off to travel. By the
end of next year he ……………… (visit) 3 Complete the sentences with your own
seven countries. ideas.
3 ‘What will you be doing this time tomorrow?’ 1 This time tomorrow I’ll be …………………
‘I ………………… (take) my English exam.’ ………………………………………………
4 Don’t come round at six o’clock. I 2 By next weekend I’ll have …………………
……………… (still / do) my homework. ………………………………………………
If you want to come round at seven, you can. 3 In six months’ time I’ll be …………………
I ……………… (finish) it by then. ………………………………………………
5 Jill has accepted a job abroad. This time next 4 By the end of this year I’ll have ……………
month she ……………… (work) in Paris. ………………………………………………
6 Next year, I ……………… (live) in this 5 In three years’ time I’ll be …………………
house for ten years. ………………………………………………

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