2015-08-13
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0 Our exams finish on Friday. This time next week I 7/ relax / ‘ll be relaxing ) at home.
1 Bring your books round tonight. My brother will help / will be helping you with your Maths.
2 I’ll still be awake at midnight. I ’ll have / ‘ll be having my fifth cup of coffee!
3 I won’t go / won’t be going without you, but please don’t be late.
4 Good luck with your exam on Wednesday. I ‘ll think / ’ll be thinking of you.
5 Meet me in the library on Thursday morning. We ’ll revise / ‘ll be revising together.
6 Come round on Saturday morning for a chat. I won’t do / won’t be doing anything.
Future perfect
• We use the future perfect to talk about an action or situation that will be finished before a particular time in the future: I can meet you at six tomorrow. My football match will have finished by then. (= It will finish some time before then.)
• We often use the future perfect with by or by the time + present simple: We ’ll have finished dinner by eight. By the time I get back, he ’ll have left.
• Compare the future with will and the future perfect: We ’ll leave at six o’clock. (= Six o’clock is the time we’ll leave.) We ’ll have left by six o’clock. (= We’ll leave before six o’clock.)
Complete the sentences. Use the present simple of future perfect of the verbs in brackets.
0 I...... ‘ll have finished......my project by the end of this month. (finish)
1 We.............................. any food by the time they............................... (not make, arrive)
2 We.............................. to Scotland by the beginning of May. (move)
3.............................. your course by the time 1you again? (you / start, see)
4 Don’t call late tonight. I.............................. to bed by ten. (go)
5 He.............................. by eight. He gets up at seven thirty, (not leave)
6 By the time we.............................. the play on Saturday, we.............................. it thirty time., (perform, rehearse)
10. Complete the sentences. Use will or the future perfect of the verbs in the box.
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0 Global temperatures...... will have risen...... by at least 1 °C by the end of this century.
1 Many of us.............................. more extreme weather events, such as storms, heat waves and floods.
2 The world.............................. much more energy in the future.
3 They say that the treatment of cancer.............................. enormously by 2025.
4 Experts predict that half of today’s languages.............................. by 2100.
5 More and more people.............................. from the countryside to cities in this century.
6 They say that people.............................. on Mars by 2040.
