The Future Perfect
The Future Perfect
Use
We use the Future Perfect to say that something will be finished or complete by a certain time in the future.
In a few years’ time, global warming will have
changed the world we live in.
Do we know exactly when? No. We just know that it will happen between ‘NOW’ and ‘a few years’ time’.
Notice these sentences from the text:
A student following a CLIL course will soon have learned to think about such probing questions as ‘why?’, ‘how?’ and ‘what evidence is there?’, and so will have practised Higher Order Thinking Skills (6).
CLIL teachers design questions, activities and tasks so that by the end of a lesson students will have had opportunities to develop both LOTS and HOTS (7).
These verbs have an auxiliary to show that they are perfect tenses - (‘have’), and another auxiliary to show the future - (‘will’).
Will have learned
Will have practised
Will have had
We know that Perfect Tenses link two points in time. Which two points are being linked here?
We are looking from ‘NOW’ to a point in the future. In sentence (6) the future is ‘soon’. In sentence (7), the future is ‘by the end of the lesson’.
We don’t know exactly when the action will happen, but it will happen:
between now and ‘soon’ in sentence (6)
between now and ‘the end of the lesson’ in sentence (7)
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