About This Lesson
Once students have mastered all future forms of verbs and the present perfect simple, it is time to learn the future perfect simple. This free ESL lesson plan provides a guide for how to teach the future perfect simple. The lesson plan is suitable for students at an intermediate level and is classified CEFR B1+.
How to Teach the Future Perfect Simple?
Remember, the future perfect simple is used for an event that will already be completed for a specified time in the future. It also can express an ongoing state measured at a future date.
That might seem a bit confusing for your students, but it doesn’t have to be!
For example, you might use the future perfect simple to say, “Sarah will have finished building her house by June.”
Or, “Miguel will have started running his marathon by Monday.”
The magic combination is “subject + will + have+ verb3 (e.g. done, finished, started).
Another type of this verb is an ongoing state, measured at a future date. As an example, “By the time you arrive home at 2pm, James will have working for 4 hours.”
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