10. Future progressive
The future progressive is formed with
s+ will +
be +
present participle
Use the future progressive to talk about something you
will be doing at certain time in the future.
11. Example
will be
subject
By this time next week, I will be lying in
the sun on the beautiful beach in Cozumel.
present participle
12. Future perfect
The future perfect is formed with
s+ will have past+
+ participle
Use the future perfect to say what something will have
already happened before a certain time in the future.
13. Example
Come and pick me up at 10 o’clock.
The game will have ended by then.
subject will have past participle
15. Reporter : Professor, in the
nineteen seventies, scientists
predicted that
the world's oil reserves would have
all been use up by the beginning of
the twenty-first century.
Prof. K : Those prediction were
highly exaggerated.
However, in a hundred years' time
at the present rate of consumption,
we will have use all the available oil
resource.
Therefore, we need to find clean
renewable fuel, especially for
automobiles.
16. Reporter : What other fuels are
being developed?
Prof. K : We are working on alternative
sources of energy such as biodiesel, solar
energy, electricity, and hydrogen.
Reporter : What will we be filling our car
tanks with in twenty years' time?
Prof K : According to the U.S. National
Engineering Academy, by 2024, half of all
vehicles will be running on part
electricity and part of gasoline.
They also predict that by 2038, all the
new cars produced in the U.S. will use
hydrogen.
17. Reporter : That's a big change in
relatively short period of time?
Prof. K : Yes, science nowadays
advances very quickly,
and changes in technology that
affect people's every day lives can
occur very fast.
I wouldn't be surprised if most of us
will be driving hydrogen-powered
cars in the near future.