Grammar for Everyone - Barbara Dykes 2007

The future perfect tense
Introduction
Part II The parts of speech

Both auxiliaries ’to have’ and ’to be’ are used to form the future perfect tense. This tense shows that an action will have been completed at some time in the future.

For example:

A table of perfect tenses - active voice

A table of perfect tenses - active voice (continued)

A table of perfect tenses - passive voice

18.1 Activities: perfect tenses

1. Students take turns to mime an action and the others guess or write down what the action is. The answers will be present participles, such as laughing, cooking etc. Students should think up their own actions.

2. Students complete a tense table with the verb ’to forget’ in the active voice.

3. Students complete a tense table with the verb ’to rescue’ in the passive voice.

4. Students are given the list of verbs on the left, and fill in a table showing the past tense and past participle of each.

5. Students answer the following questions by adding three tasks that they/others have done.

a. What have you done so far today?

1. I have ...

2 ...

3 ...

b. What has your brother/sister done today?

1. She ...

2 ...

3 ...

6. Students match each verb to its tense:

a. Future perfect, b. Past continuous, c. Present, d. Future, e. Past perfect

Checklist: perfect tenses

Students should now be able to

• define the term ’participle’

• state the present participle of any common verb

• state the past participle of most common verbs

• complete past, present and future tenses using present and past participles together with auxiliaries

• change the tense in a sentence to another tense, from those already learnt

• recognise the tense used in a given sentence