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Future tenses
Look at the pictures and the examples on p. 64. Underline all the future tenses and identify them.
How do we form the affirmative, negative and interrogative of these tenses? Which uses of these
tenses are seen in the examples?
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Match the tenses in bold to the correct description (a-e).
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a
an action which will be in progress at a stated
future time
b
asking someone politely about their plans or
arrangements
c
emphasis on the duration of an action up to a
certain point in the future.
d
an action that will have finished before
a stated time in the future
e
an action that will definitely happen in the
future as a result of a routine or arrangement.
By 30th March, we
will have been living
in
our new house for exactly one year.
Tara
will be having
her piano lesson at 6:00
this evening so you’ll have to come later.
Will
you
be ordering
books this month?
Perhaps you can place an order for me as well.
I
’ll be meeting
James and Lily for lunch in
an hour, do you want to join us?
Patrick
will have come back
from the gym
by dinnertime.
1
c
2
3
4
5
Choose the correct item.
1
I
won’t be finishing/won’t have finished
reading the book until this afternoon.
2
How long
will you have been travelling/
will you be travelling
by the time you reach
Singapore?
3
You
’ll be seeing/’ll have seen
Kate later,
won’t you? Can you tell her about dinner
on Saturday night?
4
I promise I
will be picking/will pick
you up
at the train station.
5
Jeremy
is meeting/meets
with investors
for lunch tomorrow.
6
I got my acceptance letter today. I
am going
to start/will have started
my course after the
summer.
7
The garage
is opening/opens
at 8:00 am
tomorrow.
8
You can call them now. They
won’t have
been sleeping/won’t be sleeping
.
9
In two weeks, Jim
will have been
teaching/will be teaching
for a year.
10
Sandra
is taking/will take
her dog to the
vet’s tomorrow morning. She’s just made an
appointment.
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We
will have watched/are going to
watch
the match at the weekend. Do you
want to come?
12
Do you think you
will finish/are finishing
in time to help me with dinner?
13
It’s 7 o’clock. Mum
will have been doing/
will have done
the shopping by now and
be on her way home.
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Choose the correct item.
1
A: What time
is Dad coming/will Dad
have come
home tonight?
B: Well, he
will be leaving/will have left
the office at 5:00, as usual, so I’m sure
he’ll be here by 6:00.
2
A:
Will you have been working/Will you be
working
on your computer tonight?
B: No, you can use it.
3
A:
Are we going to watch/Will we have
watched
the DVD tonight?
B: We need to meet Jo at 10:00 pm. We
won’t be finishing/won’t have finished
watching it by then.
4
A: This time next week, you
’ll have been
swimming/’ll be swimming
in Fiji.
B: I know! It’ll be my best holiday ever!
5
A: By the time we get to Manchester, we
’ll
be driving/’ll have been driving
for five
hours. And then it’s four more hours to
Glasgow.
B: I know. We’ll have a couple of rest
stops along the way.
6
A:
Will Mark have completed/Will Mark
have been completing
the report by
Wednesday?
B: I hope so, or he’ll miss the deadline.
7
A: His train
arrives/will have arrived
at 6
o’clock.
B: Do you think you
will be/are
able to
pick him up?
8
A: I heard Professor Betts is retiring.
B: Well, by the end of this school year,
he
’ll be teaching/’ll have been
teaching
here for thirty-five years.
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