1. Teacher Silvino Sieben
The Future Perfect
Teacher Silvino Sieben

2. The Future Perfect
Like all perfect tenses, The Future Perfect links two different times together.
The Future Perfect links a time in the future (e.g. tomorrow evening) with an earlier future time (e.g. tomorrow morning), and is used to say that an action will have been completed before the later time.

3. Take a look at the example and timeline below:
John will have started a new job by next April.
This means that John will start a new job sometime in the future (exactly when is not important) before next April.
now
between now and April
April

4. Form The form is: will + have + past participle
We generally use the preposition by.
By the end of this lesson, I’ll have learnt the Present Future!

5. 1. Copy and complete the following sentences using the Future Perfect:
1. Tom ______________ (finish) university by next year.
2. By this time tomorrow, Marie ____________ (painted) her bedroom.
3. I moved to Australia when I was a child. Next year I _____________(be) here for 20 years.
4. By the time I’m forty I _________ (made) my first million.
5. ‘__________ you __________ (prepare) that report by the end of the day?’
6. ‘I’m afraid I ___________________ (not clean) everything by six o’ clock.
7. By the time we get there we __________ (drive) 100km.
8. ‘Call me after 8. I ______________ (complete) my homework by then.

6. List 5 things she’ll have done by the time she’s 18.
1._________________
2._________________
3. _________________
4. _________________
5._________________
Here’s Baby Ann.
List 5 things she’ll have done by the time she’s 18. 2

7. Make a list with your neighbour. Use the following verbs:
What changes do you think there will have been in the world by the year 2100?
Make a list with your neighbour.
Use the following verbs:
Do you think life will be better or worse in the year 2100?
learn
discover
invent
become
build