Ex.23. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form, the Future Perfect or the Future Perfect Continuous.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 432.

Be attentive: state verbs cannot have the Perfect Continuous Tense form.

Model:

My brother /run/ his own business/ five years –

By the end of this year, my brother will have been running his own business for five years.

1. Monica /design clothes/ three years.

2. My father/work for the same company/ ten years.

3. Elizabeth /be in this job/six years.

4. My friend Kevin/ study/economics/ four years.

5. They/ build their new house/ two years.

6. William Brown/train the Irish national basketball team/ five years.

7. The Greens /live in this house/ twenty years.

8. Martha /specialize in growing tulips/ about four years.

9. Helen /play the piano/over ten years.

10. Her elder brother Nick/play football/ five years.

1. Television began broadcasting in 1947. By the year 2017, people ____________ (watch) TV for 70 years.

2. Tom is on holiday and he is spending his money very quickly. If he continues like this, he ____________ (spend) all his money before the end of his holiday.

3. I came to England six months ago. I started my economics course three months ago. When I return to Australia, I ____________ (study) for nine months and I ____________ (be) in England for exactly one year.

4. By the time they arrive, we ____________ (go) home.

5. You only imagine! You ____________ (fly) non-stop for fourteen hours before you get to Kolkata.

6. In June, my grandmother and grandfather ________ (be married) for fifty years.

7. The party ____________ (go) for ages by the time we arrive.

8. You _________ (perfect) your English by the time you come back from the US.

9. By the time we get to Chicago this evening, we ____________ (drive) more than four hundred miles. We are going to be exhausted.