Prepared by: CHAN Darareaksmey

SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

UNIT TWO: WORK

Section I : Grammar
How to use Futures Overview
Futures Overview is also called Future Perfect or Future Perfect Continuous.

The future continuous (will be + ing form) and the future perfect (will have + past
participle) tenses are used to talk about events in the future.
Future continuous
Dont ring at 8 oclock. Ill be watching Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
This time tomorrow well be sitting on the beach. I cant wait!
We use the future continuous to talk about something that will be in progress at or around
a time in the future.
Dont phone grandma now, shell be having dinner.
The kids are very quiet. Theyll be doing something wrong, I know it!
These sentences are not about the future but we can use the future continuous to talk about
what we assume is happening at the moment.
Future Perfect
Do you think you will have finished it by next Thursday?
In 5 years time Ill have finished university and Ill be able to earn some money at last.
We use the future perfect to say that something will be finished by a particular time in the
future.

We often use the future perfect with by or in

I think astronauts will have landed on Mars by the year 2020.
Ill have finished in an hour and then you can use the computer.

By means not later than a particular time and in means 'within a period of time. We
dont know exactly when something will finish.
I promise Ill have done all the work by next Saturday.

We dont know exactly when he will finish the work maybe Thursday, maybe Friday but
definitely before Saturday.

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Practice:
Put the verbs into the correct form (future perfect simple).
1. By 9 o'clock, we (finish)

our homework.

2. They (leave)
3. We (go)

the classroom by the end of the hour.

home by next week.

4. She (return)
5. (buy / he)

from the excursion by 6 o'clock.

the new house by October?

6. The sun (not / rise)

7. (you/do)

by 4 o'clock.
the shopping by 3 o'clock?

Put the verbs into the correct form (future perfect continuous).
1. By the end of the month I (live)

in this town for ten years.

2. By the end of this week we (work)

on the project for a month.

3. By July the fifth they (study)

4. By 10 o'clock she (watch)
5. She (sleep)
6. We (look for)
7. They (wait)

English for 3 years.

TV for 4 hours.

for 10 hours by 11 o'clock.

him for 40 days by next Saturday.
for the president for 5 hours.

Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense (future perfect simple or
continuous.)
1. By 2018 we (live)
2. He (write)
3. (finish, you)

in Madrid for 20 years.

a book by the end of the year.
this novel by next week?

4. He (read)

this book for 15 days by the end of this week.

5. They (be)

married for 40 years by the end of this month.

6. (be, she)

pregnant for three months this week?

Warning
Before submitting the test, check the following:

Punctuation and capitalization

Spelling
Spaces (don't add any unnecessary spaces)

Such mistakes would cost you valuable points. Good luck!

Prepared by: CHAN Darareaksmey

SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

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