Future Perfect Continuous

Exercise 230

Answer the following questions. Use the future Perfect Continuous form of the verbs.

I

1. How long will you have been studying in this group by February?

2. And how long have you been studying here already?

3. How many grammar themes have you covered already?

4. How long had you been studying English before you became a student of this group?

II

1. How long will our scientists and engineers have been working at the exploration of cosmos by 2010?

2. And how long have they been studying this problem already?

3. What have they achieved?

4. How long had they been launching man-made satellites when the Americans launched their first one?

III

1. For how many years has our country been building atomic power stations?

2. How many have our engineers and workers built?

3. Have they solved all the problems?

4. How long had our scientists been carrying on scientific research before the first one was built?

5. Will our country have stopped building all other power stations but atomic ones by 2020? Why?

6. For how many years shall we have been building such stations by 2020?

Exercise 231

Complete the sentences with the Future Perfect Continuous form of the verbs given in brackets.

1. Wake him up at eight. He _____ (sleep) nine hours by that time. Quite enough time to have a rest.

2. Next August I _____ (to work) in my office for ten years.

3. I hope I'll manage to do this work. We _____ (to study) English for four years by that time.

4. By the second decade of the 21st century people _____ (eat) more genetically modified food than before.

5. By the end of the 21st century many people _____ (live) to over 100 as medical science advances.

6. By the time you get free I _____ (wait for) you for an hour. You always make me wait.

7. How long _____ you (study) abroad before we are able to visit you.

8. He _____ (stay) at he Mansion House Hotel for a week, before we join him.

9. For next decades more potent microprocessors and further improvements in various voice and other technologies underlying computer "speech" _____ (develop) before computers begin to speak rather than display messages.

10. I _____ (miss) a bus one by one until you come.

Future Perfect Continuous or future Perfect?

Exercise 232

Complete the sentences with either the Future Perfect Continuous or the Future Perfect for each situation.

1. Simon started to learn Spanish when he was 25. He is still learning Spanish.

When he's 40 he will have been learning Spanish for 15 years.

2. Every day, Peter eats three bars of chocolate on the way home from school.

Before he gets home from school tonight Peter ………………………

3. So many people enter the New York Marathon that the last runners start several minutes after the ones at the front.

By the time the last runners start, the ones at the front …………...

4. I started writing this book 3 years ago next month.

By next month I ………………………………………………………………

5. The company is spending $ 5 million on developing the software before it

goes on sale.

By the time the software goes on sale, the company ……………….

6. I'm going to paint the front door today. I'll finish it before you get back.

When you get back, I …………………………………………………………

7. This traffic is terrible. We're going to be late. Bob' plane is arriving in time. He'll be wondering where we are.

By the time we get to the airport, Bob's plane ……… already……..

8. I will go to bed at 10 p.m. He will get home at midnight. At midnight I will be

sleeping.

By the time he gets home I …………………………….. for two hours.

9. Ann and Andy got married on June the1st. Today is June the 14th. Ann and Andy have been married for two weeks.

By June the 28th, they …

10. I'm getting tired of sitting in the car and driving.

Do you realize that by the time we arrive in Phoenix, we …………

………………for 20 straight hours.

Exercise 233

Put the verbs in brackets into the future Perfect Continuous or the future Perfect.

1. By 7.00 p.m. they will have been playing (play) cricket for eight hours.

2. I _____ (finish) painting your room by the time you get home.

3. By the end of next month I _____ (live) in London for exactly three years.

4. Tom _____ (write) his third novel by the end of this year.

5. By the time he arrives in London, John _____ (drive) for five hours.

6. This film _____ (probably / not / finish) until midnight.

8. How long _____(you / study) English by the end of this term?

9. Don't worry! You _____ (forget) all about it by this time next year.

10. By Friday I _____ (work) on this project for two weeks.

10. Hopefully, he _____ (cook) dinner for us by the time we get home.

11. I _____(read) this book by tomorrow night.

12. He hopes he _____ (make) a million pounds by the time he is thirty.

13. By 5 o'clock I _____ (do) this crossword puzzle for three hours.

Exercise 234

Correct the mistakes in the following sentences.

1. They will make a decision by Friday.

2. Have you see the Bruce Lee film on TV last night?

3. They had been sailing while a month before they reached a port.

4. He left his job because he had been feeling dissatisfied for months.

5. She has been to Paris for three years.

6. She has been in Berlin once.

7. They has been talking on the phone since 9 o'clock this morning.

8. He have gained a lot of weight recently.

9. By the end of this year she shall have been working here for five years.

10. How long ago will you have been studying English by the end of this

term?

CONVERSATIONS

Exercise 235

Complete these dialogues. Use the Future Perfect Continuous.

1.	A: B:	How long _____ you _____ (work) as a teacher before you retire? I guess I _____ (teach) for about 30 or 35 years, of course, if I have patience and wish.
2.	A: B:	You _____ (stay) in bed for a week before the doctor visits you again, won't you? You are wrong! The doctor is coming tomorrow.
3.	A: B: A:	By the year 2057 people _____ (launch) artificial satellites for a hundred of years. Sorry, how should I know? It's easy to count if you know the exact date of the first launching - October 4th, 1957.
4.	A: B: A:	How can I get in touch with you while you're out of town? I've booked a room in the Pilgrim Hotel. I _____(stay) at the Pilgrim Hotel for ten days by the end of my leave. You can reach me there. OK.

Exercise 236

Read the text.