future continuous and future perfect

Lecture No.15
Future Continuous (Will be doing) and Future Perfect (Will have done)
Study this example situation:
These people are standing in a queue to get into the cinema now.
Half an hour from now, the cinema will be full. Everyone will be watching the film.
Three hours from now, the cinema will be empty. The film will have finished.
Everyone will have gone home .
I will be doing something (future continuous)= I will be in the middle of doing it:
This time next week I ll be on holiday. I ll be lying on the beach or swimming in the sea.
You have no chance of getting the job.You Ll be wasting your time if you apply for it.
Compare will be (do)ing and will (do):
Don t phone between 7 and 8. We ll be having dinner.
Lefs wait for Liz to arrive and then we ll have dinner.
Compare will be-ing with other continuous forms:
At 10 o clock yesterday, Sally was in her office. She was working. (past )
it s 10 o clock now. She is in her office. She is working. (present)
At 10 o clock tomorrow, she will be in her office. She will be working .
We also use will be-ing to talk about complete actions in the future.
For example:
The government will be making a statement about the crisis later today.
? Will you be going away this summer
Later in the programme, I ll be talking to the minister of Education.
Our best player is injured and won t be playing in the game on Saturday.
In these examples will be -ing is similar to (be) going to ... Later in the programme
I ll be talking to ...
We use will have (done) (future perfect) to say that something will already be complete before a time in the future. For example:
Sally always leaves for work at 8.30 in the morning. She won t be at home at 9 o clock. She ll have gone to work.
We re late. The film will already have started by the time we get to the cinema.
Compare will have (done) with other perfect forms:
Ted and Amy have been married for 24 years. (present perfect)
Next year they will have been married for 25 years.
When their son was born, they had been married for three years. (past perfect )
Exercises
Put the verb into the correct form will be (do)ing or will have (done).
1.Donlt phone between 7 and 8. ....... (we / have) dinner then.
2.Phone me after 8 0 clock. ....... ............ (we / finish) dinner by then.
3.Tomorrow afternoon we re going to play tennis from 3 o clock until 4.30. So at 4 o clock,................. (we / play) tennis.
4.A: Can we meet tomorrow afternoon?
s: Yes, but not in the afternoon. .................... (I / work).
5.He has to go to a meeting which begins at 10 0 clock. lt will last about an hour.
Will you be free at 11.30 ? Yes .. ......... (the meeting / end) by then.
6.Ben is on holiday and he is spending his money very quickly. If he continues like this, .............. (he / spend ). all his money before the end of his holiday.
7.Do you think ....... ....... (you / still / do). the same job in ten years time?
8.Lisa is from New Zealand. She is travelling around Europe at the moment. So far she has travelled about 11000 miles. By the end of the trip, ............ (she / travel) more than 3,000 miles.
9.If you need to contact me, ............... (I / stay) at the Lion Hotel until Friday .
10.A: . ............ (you / see) Laura tomorrow? s: Yes, probably. Why ?