This is a presentation by Katia Martins about the use of the Future Continuous, Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous.

1. FutureFuture
Continuous &Continuous &
PerfectPerfect

2. Future ContinuousFuture Continuous
will + be + verb-ingwill + be + verb-ing
This time next week
we’ll be sitting on the
beach.
A: Where do I meet you?
B: I’ll be waiting for you
outside the cinema.

3. to talk about an action thatto talk about an action that will be inwill be in
progressprogress at aat a specific point in thespecific point in the
future.future.
UseUse Future ContinuousFuture Continuous
At seven o’clock tomorrow I will
be playing soccer.

4. to talk aboutto talk about planned eventsplanned events, or, or
events that weevents that we expect to happenexpect to happen..
(Similar to the(Similar to the present continuouspresent continuous forfor
arrangements)arrangements)
UseUse Future ContinuousFuture Continuous
I’ll be going to the mall later. Is
there anything you need?

5. toto predictpredict what iswhat is happening nowhappening now..
UseUse Future ContinuousFuture Continuous
Try phoning the school. He’ll
probably still be having lunch.

6. Can you let me know
what time you will be
arriving?
Use WILL
to ask extremely politely about
future plans.

7. By the time we get
to the movies, the
film will have already
started.
Future PerfectFuture Perfect
will + have + verbwill + have + verb (past participle)(past participle)

8. to talk about a completed action orto talk about a completed action or
event in the future / to look back fromevent in the future / to look back from
the future to an earlier event, oftenthe future to an earlier event, often
withwith BYBY oror BY THE TIMEBY THE TIME..
UseUse Future PerfectFuture Perfect
By June, he will have
payed his debt.

9. By May, she will have
bought a car.
She’ll have looked at a
lot of cars by then.

10. The party started early.
So, by midnight we will
have been celebrating for
many hours.
Future Perfect ContinuousFuture Perfect Continuous
will + have + been verb-ingwill + have + been verb-ing

11. By the time he isBy the time he is
eighteen, heeighteen, he will havewill have
been learningbeen learning French forFrench for
ten years.ten years.
UseUse Future Perfect ContinuousFuture Perfect Continuous
to say how long an action or eventto say how long an action or event
will have been in progresswill have been in progress at aat a
specific timespecific time in the futurein the future..

12. BibliographyBibliography
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13. Developed by Kátia Martins PereiraDeveloped by Kátia Martins Pereira