Year 3 · SPaG · Verb tenses
Year 3 recognising the present perfect worksheet and PowerPoint
To recognise the present perfect and to tell it from the simple past.
The present perfect
The present perfect uses has or have and a past participle. It links something that happened to now. The simple past is just finished.
| present perfect | She has finished. We have built a den. |
|---|---|
| simple past | She finished yesterday. We built a den last week. |
| irregular | has gone, have seen, has taken |
Examples
- The dog has barked all morning.
- We have grown vegetables.
Key words
- present perfect
- has or have with a past participle
- past participle
- the verb form used after has and have
- tense
- the form of a verb that shows when something happens
- past
- already happened
What is on the worksheet
Every sheet for this lesson has a short teaching box and 12 questions that get gradually harder: 8 fluency questions, then 4 reasoning questions that ask pupils to explain or choose. A writing challenge follows. The questions use the same styles as the key stage 2 grammar and punctuation test (circle, underline, tick, fill the gap, add punctuation, rewrite, explain). They are written for this website, not copied from past papers.
All the answers are on the last page of the same editable Word file. New questions are made every time, so you can print a different sheet for every group or for homework. The same sheet code always gives the same sheet.
Writing challenge: Find five sentences with has or have and a past participle in a story. Copy them and underline the verbs.
Pupil target: I can spot the present perfect.
The PowerPoint
A 20-slide lesson deck for the same lesson: a starter that revisits earlier learning, key words, an I do and a You do question on each slide with a countdown timer, answers that appear one click at a time, and a challenge. Download the recognising the present perfect PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 9 of 53 in the Year 3 SPaG scheme, in the block “Verb tenses”.
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