FutureContinuous &

Perfect

Future Continuouswill + be + verb-ing

This time next weekwe’ll be sitting on the beach.

A: Where do I meet you?B: I’ll be waiting for you outside the cinema.

to talk about an action that will be in progress at a specific point in the future.

Use Use Future ContinuousFuture Continuous

At seven o’clock tomorrow I will be playing soccer.

to talk about planned events, or events that we expect to happen. (Similar to the present continuous for arrangements)

Use Use Future ContinuousFuture Continuous

I’ll be going to the mall later. Is there anything you need?

to predict what is happening now.

Use Use Future ContinuousFuture Continuous

Try phoning the school. He’llprobably still be having lunch.

Can you let me know what time you will be arriving?

Use WILLto ask extremely politely about future plans.

By the time we get to the movies, the film will have already started.

Future Perfectwill + have + verb (past participle)

to talk about a completed action to talk about a completed action or event in the future / to look or event in the future / to look back from the future to an earlier back from the future to an earlier event, often with event, often with BYBY or or BY THE BY THE TIMETIME..

Use Use Future PerfectFuture Perfect

By June, he will have payed his debt.

By May, she will have bought a car.

She’ll have looked at a lot of cars by then.

The party started early. So, by midnight

we will have been celebrating for many

hours.

Future Perfect Future Perfect ContinuousContinuous

will + have + been verb-will + have + been verb-inging

By the time he is By the time he is eighteen, he eighteen, he will have will have been learning been learning French French for ten years.for ten years.

Use Use Future Perfect ContinuousFuture Perfect Continuous

to say how long an action or to say how long an action or event event will have been in progress will have been in progress at a specific time at a specific time in the futurein the future..