Year 5 · SPaG · Verb tenses and the perfect form
Year 5 the present perfect form worksheet and PowerPoint
To recognise and use the present perfect form, which links something that happened to the present.
The present perfect
The present perfect uses has or have and the past participle. It shows that something has happened and still matters now.
| has / have + past participle | Sana has asked. We have built a den. |
|---|---|
| regular verbs | the past participle ends -ed: washed, opened |
| irregular verbs | the past participle can be a different word: bought, taken, said |
| compare | I washed the car (finished, past) / I have washed the car (it is clean now) |
Examples
- The dog has barked all morning.
- We have grown vegetables in the garden.
Key words
- perfect form
- a verb group with has, have or had and a past participle
- past participle
- the verb form used after has, have and had
- auxiliary verb
- a helping verb such as has or have
- present perfect
- has or have + past participle
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 eight sentences about what you and your family have done this week. Use the present perfect in every sentence and underline has or have and the past participle.
Pupil target: I can use the present perfect form.
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 the present perfect form PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 15 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
- Recognising the past perfect form
- Using the past perfect form
- Recognising the future perfect form
- Using the future perfect form
- Recognising the perfect form in sentences
- Using the perfect form in sentences
- Which tense?
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