Future perfect continuous: exercise
How long will Francis and his friends have been doing the following things by the end of their school holidays?
Example:
Francis - stay at his grandma's place
Francis will have been staying at his grandma's place for three weeks.
Samantha - travel round the world
Melanie - work at a summer camp
Robert - learn Spanish at a language school
Kevin - work on his house
Carol - practise beach volleyball
Peter - do community work
Naomi - take care of her neighbour's dog
Judy - attend driving school
Ben - climb mountains
Tom - do nothing
Samantha ............................................................................................................. for a month.
Ans- Samantha will have been travelling round the world for a month.
Melanie ................................................................................................................ for six weeks.
Ans- Melanie will have been working at a summer camp for six weeks.
Robert .................................................................................................................. for two months.
Ans- Robert will have been learning Spanish at a language school for two months.
Kevin ................................................................................................................... all the time.
Ans- Kevin will have been working on his house all the time.
Carol .................................................................................................................... for more than a month.
Ans- Carol will have been practising beach volleyball for more than a month.
Peter ..................................................................................................................... for three weeks.
Ans- Peter will have been doing community work for three weeks.
Naomi .................................................................................................................. for a couple of weeks.
Ans- Naomi will have been taking care of her neighbour's dog for a couple of weeks.
Judy ..................................................................................................................... for quite a long time.
Ans- Judy will have been attending driving school for quite a long time.
Ben ...................................................................................................................... for a fortnight.
Ans- Ben will have been climbing mountains for a fortnight.
Tom ..................................................................................................................... all the time.
Ans- Tom will have been doing nothing all the time.
Respond to the following situations.
Why are you so angry?
They .......................................................................................... the road by the end of this year. (repair)
Ans- They will have been repairing the road by the end of this year.
Your French is not perfect.
Don't worry. I ....................................................................... it for a year by the time I leave for France. (learn)
Ans- Don't worry. I will have been learning it for a year by the time I leave for France.
Look at Jane. She's so nervous.No wonder. She ............................................................... for Tim for five hours when his plane finally arrives. (wait)
Ans- No wonder. She will have been waiting for Tim for five hours when his plane finally arrives
Bill is a good teacher.Definitely. He ........................................................................ for five years by the time he's 30. (teach)
Ans- Definitely. He will have been teaching for five years by the time he's 30.
I could help you pick apples on Saturday.We ................................................................................ apples for a week by Saturday. We'll be finished. (pick)
Ans- We will have been picking apples for a week by Saturday. We'll be finished.
Do you think you will pass the exam? I hope so. I ........................................................................... for it for two weeks when I take it. (revise)
Ans- hope so. I will have been revising for it for two weeks when I take it.
Is Grace your neighbour? Yes, she is. She .............................................................. next door for a year next month. (live)
Ans- Yes, she is. She will have been living next door for a year next month.
We could buy Lisa a new piano for her birthday. Good idea. When she turns twenty, she ....................................................................... the piano for twelve years. (play)
Ans- Good idea. When she turns twenty, she will have been playing the piano for twelve years.
Shall I wake Doris up? Yes, please. At nine o'clock she ................................................................. for ten hours. (sleep)
Ans- Yes, please. At nine o'clock she will have been sleeping for ten hours.
Your parents are experienced workers.Yes, they are. They ........................................................................ together for thirty five years before they retire. (work)
Ans- Yes, they are. They will have been working together for thirty five years before they retire.
Exercise – 1
♦ Circle the number of sentences containing unnecessary words.
1. The building project would be costly.
2. Jane’s day was kind of like a train wreck.
3. The teacher was very pleased with the students in her class.
4. He never knew who told the family’s secret.
5. The city council had no future plans to expand that street.
6. My brother and sister often argue.
7. He hugged his mother for no particular reason.
8. The stoplight actually turned green when we approached the intersection.
9. They enjoyed a long discussion about the new rules.
10. Her grandmother’s visit was an unexpected surprise.
10. Her grandmother’s visit was an unexpected surprise.
Jacob the Great
Read the following passage.
Jacob hated finishing things almost as much as he loved starting them. As a result, he had gotten into a million hobbies and activities, but he never stuck with any of them long enough to get any good.
He begged his mother for months for a guitar so that he could play Black Eyed Peas songs to Angie, a girl he liked, but after he finally got one for Christmas, he found out that guitars don’t play themselves. He took a few lessons, but strumming the strings hurt his fingers and he didn’t like holding the pick, so now the fivehundred dollar guitar lives under his bed.
After reading an ad in the back of one of his comic books, Jacob decided that he wanted a Wonder- Sweeper 5000 metal detector, so that he could find buried pirate treasure. So he mowed lawns all summer and didn’t spend his money on ice-cream like his younger brother, Alex. He saved it all in a shoe box in his closet. Then he shoveled driveways all winter, and he didn’t spend his money on candy and chips
like his classmates. By the time spring came he had saved $200, and he purchased the Wonder-Sweeper 5000 metal detector. He beeped it around the park for a while, be he soon found out that no pirates had ever set sail in his neighborhood, and if they had they didn’t leave any treasure. Even though he found a key ring, forty-seven cents, and all the bottle caps he could throw, he buried the metal detector in his closest.
Given Jacob’s history with hobbies, it was no surprise that Jacob’s father was reluctant to buy him a magician’s kit for his birthday. “Geez, Jacob… You sure you wouldn’t rather I got you more guitar lessons?” He suggested. Jacob was insistent. “Dad, you’ve got to get me the magician’s kit. This time I’ll stick with it for real. I promise! Come on, Dad,” Jacob begged. Jacob’s father sighed and then replied, “Oh, I don’t know, Jacob. Things are awfully tight right now.” But Jacob’s father was reminded of his own youth long ago, when he quit football and started karate practice before hardly getting his equipment dirty. So when Jacob’s
birthday came around, Jacob was both surprised and pleased to find the magician’s kit that he had desired so badly with a big bright bow on it.
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