UNIT 3 LESSON 4

TALKING ABOUT YOUR FUTURE

Use expressions like these to talk about your financial future:

 

• Gloria and I are consulting a financial planner.
• I'd like to build our investments.
• We should set up a college fund for the children.

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Use expressions like these to talk about places you might want to live:

 

• My primary residence will be in Perth.
• But I'd like to buy a vacation home near the beach.
• Jill and I want to retire in the country.

FUTURE PERFECT

Use future perfect to talk about something that will have happened before another future event. Say will have + past participle verb. The future event should be stated with a when, by or before expression in the present tense, unless the time is already understood.

 

• I will have set up a college fund before my children turn 16.
• I will have retired in the country by the time I'm 65. My kids will have graduated from college.
• When I'm 60, I will have retired from my job and bought that beach house.

Future perfect questions and negatives are possible, but less common.

 

A: What will you have achieved by 2020?

B: We'll have set up a college fund, but we won't have made any significant investments.