Future Perfect Simple ESL Games, Activities and Worksheets

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By the End of My Holiday...

ESL Future Perfect Simple Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences from Prompts, Guessing, Freer Practice - Group Work - Intermediate (B1) - 20 minutes

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.
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By the End of the Day...

ESL Future Perfect Simple Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences from Prompts, Guessing, Asking Questions - Pair Work - Intermediate (B1) - 25 minutes

In this free future perfect simple game, students guess jobs from clues read out in the future perfect simple. Students look at each person's job and future perfect clue prompts on their worksheet and write one more clue for each job in the space provided. Students then play a guessing game in which they take turns reading out the clues for each person's job on their worksheet using the future perfect simple, e.g. 'By the end of the day, Yumiko will have pushed a trolley'. Their partner listens to the clues and has one minute to guess the person's job. If their partner needs more clues, they can ask yes/no questions in the future perfect simple, such as 'Will they have spoken to many people?' If their partner manages to guess the person's job within the time frame, the student puts a tick in the box next to the job. The student who guesses the most jobs correctly wins the game.
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Future Perfect Simple Practice

ESL Future Perfect Simple Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Gap-fill, Matching, Sentence Completion - Intermediate (B1) - 30 minutes

This insightful future perfect simple worksheet helps students learn how to make predictions about actions that will be completed in the future. Students begin by completing sentences with the future perfect simple form of the verbs in brackets. Students then match each sentence with a related meaning in a box. Next, students match future perfect simple sentences with suitable responses. After that, students complete sentences using the verbs in brackets in the future perfect simple tense. In the last exercise, students complete future perfect sentences with their own ideas.
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Find Someone Who...

ESL Future Perfect Simple Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions from Prompts, Controlled Practice - Upper-intermediate (B2) - 30 minutes

In this engaging future perfect simple speaking activity, students practice asking and answering future perfect yes/no questions. To start, students complete the find someone who tasks with the verbs on the worksheet in their future perfect form. Students then review the future perfect yes/no questions the students 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. When everyone has finished, have a class feedback session and ask the students to share what they found out about their classmates.
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What's the Reason?

ESL Future Perfect Simple Activity - Grammar: Matching, Changing Word Forms, Forming Sentences - Pair Work - Upper-intermediate (B2) - 25 minutes

In this productive future perfect simple 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.
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Will that have happened?

ESL Future Perfect Simple Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled and Freer Practice - Group Work - Upper-intermediate (B2) - 30 minutes

In this enjoyable future perfect 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.
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