Year 5 · SPaG · Verb tenses and the perfect form
Year 5 using the future perfect form worksheet and PowerPoint
To use the future perfect form to say that something will be finished by a time in the future.
Using the future perfect
To make the future perfect, put will have before the past participle. Use it when something will be complete by a certain time.
| future → future perfect | She will finish. → She will have finished. |
|---|---|
| in a sentence | By next week the class will have read the whole book. |
| irregular verbs | He will have taken, they will have gone |
Examples
- We will have eaten by seven.
- The snow will have melted by Monday.
Key words
- future perfect
- will have + past participle
- past participle
- the verb form used after have
- by
- a clue word showing when it will be complete
- tense
- the form of a verb that shows when something happens
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: Write a plan for a school fair. Use the future perfect in six sentences to say what will have been done by the day of the fair.
Pupil target: I can use the future 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 using the future perfect form PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 19 of 43 in the Year 5 SPaG scheme, in the block “Verb tenses and the perfect form”.
Other lessons in this block
- Past or present
- The present perfect form
- Recognising the past perfect form
- Using the past perfect form
- Recognising the future perfect form
- Recognising the perfect form in sentences
- Using the perfect form in sentences
- Which tense?
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