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This podcast is for English learners who want to practice their listening comprehension in a natural way. In each episode, an American speaker talks about different topics without reading a script. He speaks in a natural way, with native words and phrases, but he speaks a little more slowly and clearly than other native speakers. Each episode includes the transcript, which you can use to help you understand the speaker. If you want my advanced podcast episodes and my specialized training, th ...
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LOOKING BACK FROM A POINT IN THE FUTURE - FUTURE PERFECT
I have studied / I have been studying English for/since...
(from the past to the present)
Next September, I will have studied / been studying English for ten years
(from the past to a moment in the future
I will have had this car for fifteen years next month.
I will have lived / been living in Seville for twenty-five years
This summer I will have been working for three years at the car factory.
The structure is the same for other verbs that use modal auxiliary verbs
I should study now
I should have studied in the past (but I didn't)
We call this the perfect infinitive.
I could work in the car factory
I could have worked in the car factory (but I didn't)
I might buy that sweater I saw in the shop window.
I might have bought that sweater I saw in the shop window. (but I didn't)
(Georgia on my Mind cover by M.A. Bilbrough)
Read the story transcript at my website: https://www.practisingenglish.com/podcast-235.htm
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Mike Bilbrough (Secondary school English teacher and Doctor in English philology)
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