1. Future Perfect and Future Perfect Progressive2
Future Perfect and Future Perfect Progressive
Extreme Races
Focus on Grammar 4
Part II, Unit 6
By Ruth Luman, Gabriele Steiner, and BJ Wells
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2. The Tour de France
The Tour de France is a popular cycling race that takes place every year in July. Teams of nine riders bike 3,427 km through the French countryside. By the start of the race, 15 million spectators will have lined up to watch the race. Riders try to intake calories an hour during the race.
At the end of an average day, they will have consumed over 6,000 calories. As a group they will have drunk 42,000 bottles of water.

3. Ironman Triathlon
The Ironman is the most grueling triathlon. The fittest of athletes will swim for 2.4 miles, bike for 112 miles, and then run a marathon (26.2 miles). Participants will have been training for many months prior to the race, which officially ends after 17 hours. At that point, many racers won’t have finished yet. Contestants who do finish, however, will have fulfilled a lifelong dream.

4. The Raid World Cup
The Raid is a multi-sport adventure race that takes place in a different country every year. Teams who complete the race will have had a great adventure, and they will have gained a broader cultural awareness. The race continues 24 hours a day. By the end of the course, most participants will have endured dehydration and sleep deprivation.

5. Use
Use the future perfect to talk about a future action that will already be completed by a certain time in the future.
Athletes spend a lot of money on equipment, clothing, and entry fees.
Racers need to constantly replenish the energy they are expending.
At the end of the day
,racers will have consumed 6,000 calories.
By the start of the race
, athletes will have spent a lot of money.
past
now
future

6. Form 1
Use will/won’t + have + past participle to form the future perfect.
Contestants
a dream.
Some racers
the course.
They
dehydration.
will
have
fulfilled
won’t
have
finished
will
have
endured

7. Future Perfect Progressive 1
Use the future perfect progressive to talk about an action that will be in progress at a certain time in the future.
By her first Ironman race, she will have been running for three years.
By her first Ironman race
past
now
future
three years
began running
will enter race

8. Future Perfect Progressive 2
In the future perfect progressive, the action may start sometime in the future or it may have already started.
By the time the team begins paddling, they will have been trekking for 18 hours straight.
By the time the team begins paddling
past
now
future
18 hours
will begin trekking
will begin paddling

9. Form 2
Use will / won’t + have been + base form + -ing to form the future perfect progressive.
She
for three years.
Some racers
very long.
Riders
all day.
will
have
been
running
won’t
have
been
training
will
have
been
eating

10. Time Clauses
Use the future perfect or future perfect progressive with the simple present to show the relationship between two future events.
First, millions of spectators line up.
simple present
future perfect
When the race starts, millions of spectators will have lined up.
When the race starts
Then the race starts.
now
past
future

11. Look at the checklist. Use future perfect and future perfect progressive to say what Ann will have done by the start of the race.
Practice 1
Fill water bottles
Collect race number
Check equipment
Pack energy bars
Warm up / 45 min.
Attend briefing
Train / 6 months
Example:
She will have filled her water bottles.
She will have collected her race number.
She will have checked her equipment.
She will have packed energy bars.
She will have been warming up for 45 minutes.
She will have attended a briefing.
She will have been training for 6 months.

12. Adverbs
Use already and yet with the future perfect to emphasize which event will happen first.
When he starts this race, he will have already run three marathons.
By the time deadline, some contestants won’t have finished the race yet.

13. Practice 2 By Wednesday night, he won’t have gotten a massage yet.
Look at Ali’s training schedule for next week. Make sentences with already and yet describing what he will or won’t have done by Wednesday night.
Practice 2
By Wednesday night,
he won’t have gotten a massage yet.
he will have already done some weight training.
he will have already run 30 miles.
he will have already taken a yoga class.
he won’t have biked 25 miles yet.
he won’t have swum 10 miles yet.
he will have already checked and cleaned his bike.
he will have already biked 15 miles with hills.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
run 10 miles
do weight training
check and clean bike
take yoga class
bike 15 miles with hills
bike 25 miles
swim 10 miles
run 15 miles
get massage

14. References
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