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Tomorrow, I’ll do my homework at 8:00. Then, I’ll go to bed at 10:00.

Before I go to bed tomorrow, I will have done my homework.

By the time I go to bed tomorrow, I will have done my homework.

Tomorrow, first I’ll do my homework; second I’ll go to bed.

We use the first action in the future perfect and the second one in the simple present.

More examples:

Tonight, first I’ll have a snack. Second, I’ll watch a movie.

I‘ll have had a snack before I watch a movie.

• Or for an action which will have been completed in the future before a certain time or between now and a certain period in the future.

At this time next Monday, we’ll have moved to our new house.

This time next May, we’ll have covered the programme.

By 2010, Morocco will have reached 10 million tourists

By five o’clock tomorrow, the political prisoner will have gone on strike for ten days.

Before June, the football team will have prepared for the competition.

I’ll have completed my medicine studies in seven years time.

The time indicators used with the future perfect:

Exercise: Use the future perfect or simple present:

• Before you come back home, we (tidy up) the house.

• By 2010, the GATT (come into) effect .

• A: What you (do)   by this time tomorrow?
• B: I (revise)     my French lessons.
• A: How many countries you (visit)    by next summer?
• B: I (visit)     three countries.
• A: how long you (live)     in Errachidia by 2020.
• B: I (live)   for twenty years.
• They (be married)   for 10 years in six years time.
•  My mother (cook)     before we (return)

                                                  From school.

•  By the time  you(leave)   work, she (prepare)   a sandwich.

•  The students (do)   the test before the bell (ring)  

 

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