Perfect Tenses Across Past & Future

Teaching points

• • Past perfect:
• • earlier past before later past.
• • Past perfect progressive:
• • duration before another past event.
• • Future perfect:
• • completed before a future deadline.
• • Future perfect progressive:
• • duration continuing up to a future point.

Past perfect لحدث أسبق من حدث ماضٍ آخر. Past perfect progressive للمدة قبل حدث ماضٍ. Future perfect لحدث سيكتمل قبل نقطة مستقبلية. Future perfect progressive للمدة المستمرة حتى نقطة مستقبلية.

Practice

Answer the 3 questions, then check — أجب عن الأسئلة الثلاثة ثم تحقق

1. 1. By the time the rescue team arrived, the hikers _____ in the cold for over ten hours. A. waited B. had been waiting C. have waited D. will have waited
2. 2. By the end of this month, the crew _____ the new bridge. A. will have completed B. will have been completing C. completed D. has completed
3. 3. By next June, she _____ English here for three years. A. will study B. will have studied C. will have been studying D. has been studying