Watch two short clips from Friends and The Big Bang Theory where the future perfect tense is used. After each clip, choose the correct answer to a multiple-choice question to check your understanding of what the speaker means.

1. Friends
Ross is stressing out because they’re all running late. He wants everyone to get ready quickly and come up with a plan: Chandler will change first, then Joey. He says:

“Joey will go change and he’ll have vacated the chair.”
This is an example of the future perfect: something (vacating the chair) will already be finished by a specific moment in the future (when Chandler comes back).

2. The Big Bang Theory
Leonard sarcastically says their discovery is so important that they should call Time magazine. Sheldon, taking it seriously and adding a twist, says:

“It’s time travel, Leonard. I will have already done that.”
Sheldon uses the future perfect to make a joke: if time travel existed, he would have gone back in time from the future and already done it.




Friends & The Big Bang Theory - Future Perfect

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Let's do English ESL general grammar practice. Watch two short clips from Friends and The Big Bang Theory where the future perfect tense is used. After each cli…