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Perfect simple or perfect continuous?

I. Complete the dialogue with the future perfect simple or future perfect continuous:
A: How long have you been preparing your campaign, Derek?
B: By the end of this month I ..................................................................(work) on it for a year.
A: For a year? And do you think you.......................................... (launch) it by the end of June?
B: I hope so. I suppose we..................................... (make) all the posters and TV shots by then.
A: Why has it taken you so long?
B: We needed a lot of data to support our arguments.
And we'll have to sort them out. But we....................................... (finish) it by the end of June.
A: I wish you all good luck, Derek. And I hope that before your campaign ends, the public
transport in our city.......................................................... (change) for the better.
II. Use the future perfect simple or future perfect continuous:
1. When .......................you .............................................. the dinner? By 7 oclock. ( to cook)
2. By this time next year we ..................................................... into our new house. ( to move)
3. When retiring, he ............................................................................ for fifty years. ( to work)
4. As soon as we reach the coast, we .......................................................... for a week. ( to sail)
5. He will come back in summer. By then he .......................... in Cork for two years. ( to stay)
6. At midnight the speakers ......................................... their projects for ten hours. ( to present)
7. They ............................................................................... the station by November. ( to build)
8. When we go to see our kids, they ................................... at the camp for a fortnight. ( to be)
9. How many continents .................. you ............................. after your journey to Australia? It
will be my fifth continent.( to visit)
10. How long ................... you ...................................................... this course next week? For
six weeks or so. ( to attend)
III. Complete the sentences with past perfect simple or conrinuous:
1. We ...................................... ( to put) the fire before the fire brigade ................... ( to arrive).
2. Ian and Rose ......................................................... ( to save) up to buy a flat for a year
before they ........................................ ( to get) married.
3. Mary ............................................... ( to work) as a bartender for three years when she
finally.................................. ( to get) her ideal job last month.
4. They ............................................... ( to talk ) about the wedding for ages, before they
actually ................................ ( to get) round to set a date for it not long ago.
5. When the isnspector ...................................... ( to visit) the school yesterday, how many
rooms ............................ the workers ............................. ( to paint)?
6. How long ..................... you ............................... ( to perform) before you ............................
( to become) very successful?
7. When the bus finally .................................. ( to arrive) we .................................. ( to wait)
for a long time.
8. Before I ................................... ( to start) to write to Wendy last year, it ................................
( never come) to my mind that I could go to the states on my own.
9. By the time James ................................. ( to get) up, they ................................... ( to eat )
all the sandwiches.
10. Sue ........................ ( to be) happy because she ........................................ ( to dance) with
Peter all night.

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