Future Perfect Simple ESL Activities, Games and Worksheets

In this fun future perfect game, students guess which countries other students are going to on holiday from clues read out in the future perfect simple. Students take turns picking up a card and saying "By the end of my holiday..." followed by three clues in the future perfect, e.g. 'By the end of my holiday, I will have drunk sangria...' The other students listen to the clues and try to guess where the student is going on their holiday, e.g. 'You are going to Spain,' The first student to make a sentence, guessing the correct country wins and keeps the card. If no one manages to correctly guess the country after a few tries, the student with the card wins and keeps the card. The student with the most cards at the end of the game is the winner.

In this engaging future perfect speaking activity, students practice asking and answering future perfect yes/no questions. First, students complete Find someone who prompts with verbs in their future perfect form. Students then review the future perfect yes/no questions they need to ask in order to do the activity, e.g. 'Will you have checked your phone by the end of the lesson?' Next, students go around the class asking each other the questions. When a classmate thinks the future event in the question is possible, they answer 'Yes, I will.' The student then writes their name and asks a follow-up question to gain more details, writing the answer in the 'More information' column. If a classmate replies 'No, I won't', the student repeats the question with another student or asks a different question. Finally, students share what they found out about their classmates with the class.

In this productive future perfect activity, students race to form sentences with the future perfect simple. In pairs, students line up the sentence beginning cards in order and match each one with an ending card. After that, students complete each sentence with a verb card, writing the verb in its future perfect simple form. The first pair to complete all their sentences correctly wins.

In this enjoyable future perfect simple speaking activity, students practice using the future perfect to ask and answer questions about actions that will be completed by a specific time in the future. In groups, students take turns picking up a card and completing the question with the future perfect simple form of the verb in brackets, e.g. 'Will you have learned to speak English fluently within a year?' The student then asks the question to the other group members, who each answer the question in turn, e.g. 'Yes because I will have travelled abroad and practiced a lot of English.' The group then discusses the answers, and the student notes down the main answers on the back of the card. The next student then picks up a card, and so on. When the students have finished, elicit each future perfect question from the class and have the groups tell the class their findings.