Activities for Teaching the Future Perfect (PART I)


  1. FIVE YEAR PLAN

Have your students heard the expression “5 Year Plan”? Give them a chance to create a plain of their own. Once their plans are finished, students share with the class what they will have done before those 5 years are complete, using the future perfect

  1. BY THE TIME

“By the time’ is used to express a future even that will happen after another future event. Student 1 offers a future even using “by the time” and the simple present. Student 2 expresses a 2nd event in the future perfect that will happen before that. Student 1 “by the time I finish my program… Student 2 “I will have become fluent in English”

  1. FUTURE CHANGES

What will the world be like in 100 years? What will have happened by then? Students discuss what changes they think will have happened in 100 years. Students use the future perfect in their sentences. “People will learned how to time travel.”

  1. TV PREDICTIONS

Students watch the first half of any video available online. Students make predictions as to what will have happened by the end of the show. Students watch the remainder of the video to see if their predictions were correct.


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