English Grammar Exercises for B1- Future continuous and future perfect

1. Make predictions about your future. Use the future continuous, affirmative or negative form of the verbs in brackets.

When I’m thirty years old.

1) I’ll be living (live) in New York.

2) I ______________ (work) for a large company.

3) I ______________ (earn) a lot of money.

4) I ______________ (spend) a lot of time doing hobbies.

5) I ______________ (drive) an expensive car.

6) I ______________ (live) with friends.

7) I ______________ (travel) a lot for work and pleasure.

8) I ______________ (see) the same people I see now.

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2) ’ll be / won’t be working 3) ’ll be / won’t be earning

4) ’ll be / won’t be spending  5) ’ll be / won’t be driving

6) ’ll be / won’t be living 7) ’ll be / won’t be travelling

8) ’ll be / won’t be seeing

2. Look at the timeline for a new medical school. Write sentences using the affirmative or negative form of the future perfect and the prompts below

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1) by 2023 / building work / finish

2) by 2025 / the first students / arrive

3) by 2027 / the first students / graduate

4) by 2029 / the first students / graduate

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1) By 2023, building work won’t have finished.

2) By 2025, the first students will have arrived.

3) By 2027, the first students won’t have graduated.

4) By 2029, the first students will have graduated.

3. Complete the text with the future continuous or future perfect form of the verbs in brackets.

According to researcher Cadell Last from the Global Brain Institute, a completely new type of human 1) _____. (evolve) by 2050. We 2) _____. (live) much longer on average – perhaps to the age of 120. And we 3) _____. (enjoy) our old age much more because even when we are 90 or 100, we 4) _____. (lead) active lives. Mr Last believes that, by the middle of this century, scientists 5) _____. (invent) robots that can do most tasks, so humans 6) _____. (not do) boring housework or repetitive jobs. Instead, they 7) _____. (spend) more time living in virtual reality. But not everybody agrees with Mr Last’s vision. Some scientists think that even by the end of the century, humans 8) _____. (not change) very much.

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1) will have evolved   2) will be living   3) will be enjoying

4) will be leading   5) will have invented   6) won’t be doing

7) will be spending   8) won’t have changed

4. Complete the future time phrases with the words below.

at      by      from      in      into      within

1) within 50 years

2) a bout 100 years ________. now.

3) _____. some point in the future

4) _____. a million years’ time

5) _____. the end of the century / millennium

6) a few thousand years ________. the future.

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2) from   3) at   4) in   5) by   6) into

5. Write your own predictions for the future using the prompts below. Use the future continuous or future perfect form and time phrases from exercise 4.

1) humans / live on Mars

 ________.

 ________.

2) scientists / accidentally create a new disease

 ________.

 ________.

3) all wars / end

 ________.

 ________.

4) robots / do most jobs

 ________.

 ________.

5) many people / have holidays in space

     ________.

     ________.

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1) Humans will / won’t be living on Mars.

2) Scientists will have / won’t have accidentally created a new disease.

3) All wars will have / won’t have ended.

4) Robots will / won’t be doing most jobs.

5) Many people will / won’t be having holidays in space. / Many people will have had / won’t have had holidays in space.

6. Complete the dialogues with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use the first conditional.

1)  a What ____________ (you / do) if somebody asks about your black eye?

b I ____________ (tell) them exactly what happened!

2)  a Will you stop playing if your ankle ____________ (start) to hurt?

b Yes. The coach ____________ (not let) me play if I’m injured.

3)  a What will happen if I ____________ (not take) the medicine?

b Your cough ____________ (get) worse.

4)  a How will we get to the hospital if the bus ____________ (not come)?

b We ____________ (walk). It isn’t very far.

5)  a _______ (the doctor / give) you antibiotics if you ask for them?

b No, he’ll only prescribe them if they ____________ (be) really necessary.

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1) will you do, ’ll tell   2) starts, won’t let   3) don’t take, will get

4) doesn’t come, ’ll walk   5) Will the doctor give, are

7. Complete the text with the future continuous or future perfect form of the verbs in brackets.

This is final year at school. Six months from now, I 1) _______ (study) at university. It’s a three-year course, so I 2) _______ (finish) it by the time I’m 22. I’d love a career in nursing, but I want to do some voluntary work before I settle down. In four years’ time, perhaps I 3) _______ (help) the victims of a natural disaster somewhere. By the time I’m 26, I 4) _______ (spend) enough time abroad, and I 5) _______ (think) about coming home. In ten years’ time, I hope I 6) _______ (find) a good job in a hospital, where I 7) _______ (work) with young children. Perhaps I 8) _______ (start) a family by then, and I’ll have own baby to look after!

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1) ‘ll be studying   2) ‘ll have finished   3) ‘ll be helping

4) ‘ll have spent   5) ‘ll be thinking   6) ‘ll have found

7) ‘ll be working   8) ‘ll have started

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