- BY THE TIME
Students work in pairs. Students starts by identifying a future time with the phrase “By the time…” + a sentence in the simple present. Student 2 completes the sentence with a main clause using the future prefect progressive. A complete sentence could be, “By the time I finish “War and Peace”, I will have been reading it for 10 years.”
- CAUSE AND EFFECT
What might the cause of future events be? Students explain cause and effect relationships for future events. They phrase the cause in the future perfect progressive and the effect in the simple future. “Jane will get an A on Tuesday’s test because she will have been studying for 3 days when she takes it.”
- LEAVING A MARK
Students think about their lives, both what has already passed and what is yet to come. By the end of their lives, what will they have been doing to make the world a better place? What will they have been to give their lives meaning? Students share how they will have been leaving their marks on the world by the end of their lives and how long they will have been doing those things using the future perfect progressive