FUTURE CONTINUOUS VS FUTURE PERFECT

Future Continuous vs Future Perfect

01

Future Continuous

The Future Continuous tense is used to express actions that will be in progress at a specific time in the future.

This time next month, I'll be travelling across Europe.

tomorrow

4 pm

NOW

25/04/2023

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Tomorrow at 4 o'clock I'll be finishing my microbiology project.

FUTURE

NOW(25/03/2023)

It is also used to express actions that will be in progress over an extended time in the future

Grammar in context

The FUTURE CONTINUOUS can also be used to talk about something that will happen in the normal course of events, or routines.

Examples

Grammar structure

Subject + will be + verb (ing) + object Subject + won't be + verb (ing) + object Will + subject + be + verb (ing) + obect?

I will be studying tomorrow.

I won't be studying tomorrow.

Will you be studying tomorrow?

02

Future Perfect

The future perfect is used to talk about an action that will be completed in the future before another event or before another specific time in the future

I will have finished the report by the deadline

deadline

8 pm

NOW

I will have left by 8 pm.

Grammar structure

Subject + will ('ll) have + past participle Subject + won't have + past participle Will + subject + have + past participle

I will have done my homework by the time my friends arrive.

I won't have done my homework by the time my friends arrive.

Will you have done your homework by the time we arrive?

It refers to a completed action in the future. We use this tense when we are projecting ourselves forward into the future and looking back at an action that will be completed some time later than now.

More examples

• By the time I arrive, the lesson will have started.
• I will have graduated in two years.
• Will people's lives have changed by 10 years?
• By the time the exam begins, I'll have forgotten everything!

FUTURE

NOW

Common time expressions with the Future Perfect

We need to use a DEADLINE with the FUTURE PERFECT!

• by (2050, 6 o'clock, the end of the month, next year/month/Monday/week, then, that time, etc).

• In (10 years, 2 months, 3 weeks, etc.)

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• By 2060, renewable energy technologies will have replaced fossil fuels.

• By 2030, scientists predict that global temperatures will have risen by several degrees Celsius.

• By the end of the decade, many coastal regions will have experienced devastating effects of sea-level rise.

You've already nailed the PRESENT PERFECT TENSE (to have + past participle) Ex: I've studied English for 5 years. (2024) Let's put the two together: FUTURE + present perfect = FUTURE PERFECT By 2029, I will have studied English for 10 years.

• I'll be studying in London for a year.
• Where will you be staying when you go to London?
• I'll be staying with a host family for over a month.

At 13 o'clock tomorrow, we will be having lunch at school.

Tomorrow at 10, you'll be doing your exams.

She won't be working on Tuesday.

This time next week, I’ll be taking photographs with my new camera.