Patricia goes to work every day. She leaves home at 8 o’clock and arrives at work at about 8.45. She starts work immediately and continues until 12.30 when she has lunch (which takes about half an hour). She starts work again at 1.15 and goes home at exactly 4.30. Every day she follows the same routine and tomorrow will be no exception.
1. at 7.454. at 12.45
a) she’ll be leaving the house a) she’ll have lunch
b) she’ll have left the house b) she’ll be having lunch
c) she’ll be at home c) she’ll have finished her lunch
d) she’ll be having breakfast d) she’ll have started her lunch
2. at 8.155. at 4 o’clock
a) she’ll be leaving the house a) she’ll have finished work
b) she’ll have left the house b) she’ll finish work
c) she’ll have arrived at work c) she’ll be working
d) she’ll be arriving at work d) she won’t have finished work
3. at 9.156. at 4.45
a) she’ll be working a) she’ll leave work
b) she’ll start work b) she’ll be leaving work
c) she’ll have started work c) she’ll have left work
d) she’ll be arriving at work d) she’ll have arrived home
Exercise 22. Put the verbs in brackets into Future Continuous or Future Simple.
1. Don’t call for her at 7; she ______________ (watch)her favourite TV programme then.
2. “You’ve just missed the last bus!” “Never mind. I ____________ (walk).”
3. It’s no good asking him. He ___________ (not do) anything you say.
4. I’m afraid, Mr Turner _____________ (not teach) your class next term because he only
teaches the 6-th form and you’ll be in the 7-th.
5. I wonder what we ___________ (do) this time next year?
6. “I’d like to double-glaze the bedroom windows.” “All right. I ____________ (get) the
materials at once and we _____________ (do) it this weekend.”
7. “You _____________ (have) lunch with me on the 24-th?” “I’d love to, but I’m afraid I
____________ (do) my exam then.”
8. I ___________ (work) for Mr Pitt next week as his own secretary ___________ (be) away.
9. Why did you take his CD? He _____________ (look) for it everywhere tomorrow.
10. “I don’t feel well enough to go to the station to meet him.” “Don’t worry. I ____________
(meet) him for you. But how I ___________ (recognize) him?” “He’s small and fair, and he
____________ (wear) a black and white school cap.”
11. I hope you ____________ (do) well in the race tomorrow. I _____________ (think) of you.
12. “You’ve left the light on.” “ Oh, so I have. I ___________ (go) and turn it off.”
13. “This time next Monday I ____________ (sit) in a Paris café reading Le Figaro.” “You
____________ (not read). You _____________ (look) at all pretty girls.”
14. I _____________ (tell) her what you say but she _____________ (not believe) it.
15. “You _____________ (use) your bike this afternoon?” “No, you can borrow it if you like.”
16. I _____________ (not wear) glasses when you see me next. I ____________ (wear) contact
lenses. You probably _______________ (not recognize) me.
Exercise 23. Use Future Perfect.
1. By the time I get up tomorrow morning, the sun already _____________ (rise).
2. What? You’re smoking another cigarette? At this rate you ____________ (smoke) a whole
pack before lunchtime.
3. Douglas has been putting some money away every month to prepare for his trip to South
America next year. By the end of this year, he ____________ (save) enough. Looks like he’s
going to make it.
4. This traffic is terrible. We’re going to be late. By the time we ____________ (get) to the
airport, Bob’s plane already _____________ (arrive), and he’ll be wondering where we are.
5. We have been married for a long time. By our next anniversary, we ____________ (be)
married for 43 years.
6. I hope they ______________ (repair) this road by the time we come back next summer.
7. In two months’ time he ______________ (finish) his preliminary training and will be starting
work.
8. “I’ll be back again at the end of next month.” “ I hope I ____________ (pass) my driving
test by then. If I have, I’ll meet your train.”
Exercise 24. Read the task and answer the questions using Future Perfect.
A romantic novelist writes 300-page books. She writes ten pages a day and takes no holidays.
1. How many pages will she have written after 10 days? After a month? After a year? After 10
