Year 5 · SPaG · Verb tenses and the perfect form
Year 5 which tense? worksheet and PowerPoint
To recognise and use the past, present and future tenses in their simple, progressive and perfect forms.
Choosing a tense
Ask two questions: when is the action (past, present or future) and what kind is it (simple, progressive or perfect)?
| present | I walk. I am walking. I have walked. |
|---|---|
| past | I walked. I was walking. I had walked. |
| future | I will walk. I will have walked. |
Examples
- She walked to school. / She had walked to school.
- They will walk. / They will have walked.
Key words
- tense
- the form of a verb that shows when something happens
- simple
- the plain form of the verb
- progressive
- the -ing form
- perfect
- has, have, had or will have with a 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 a story about a school trip in the past tense. Then rewrite the first four sentences in the present tense and in the future tense.
Pupil target: I can choose the right tense.
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 which tense? PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 22 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
- Using the future perfect form
- Recognising the perfect form in sentences
- Using the perfect form in sentences
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