Future Continuous vs. Future Perfect ESL Activities, Games and Worksheets
This future continuous vs. future perfect speaking activity helps students practice forming, asking and answering conversation questions about their lives in ten years. In two groups, students use verbs in brackets to complete conversation questions in the future continuous or future perfect. Next, students pair up with someone from the other group. Students then imagine their lives in ten years and take turns asking and answering the questions with their partner. Afterwards, students share what they found out about their partner with the class.
In this free future continuous vs. future perfect game, students make predictions about their classmates. Students begin by putting verbs in brackets in the future continuous or future perfect tense, according to the time expression used in each sentence. Next, students write the name of a classmate at the beginning of each statement that they think the prediction will come true for, e.g. 'Craig will be living in a different place a year from now.' Students then go around the class asking and answering questions to find out if their sentences are true or are likely to become true, e.g. 'Craig, do you think you will be living in a different place a year from now?' The student who guesses the most correct sentences wins the game.
In this thought-provoking future continuous vs. future perfect activity, students make predictions about what life will be like a year from now. First, students make predictions about what their lives will be like this time next year using the future continuous and future perfect. Next, in groups, students talk about their predictions and discuss what their lives will be like a year from now. Finally, there is a class feedback session to find out the students' predictions.
In this future continuous and future perfect activity, students role-play a telephone conversation about arranging an interview with Richard Branson. In pairs, one student takes on the role of Richard Branson's secretary, and the other student is a journalist for Wired magazine. The students' task is to use the future continuous and future perfect to help them arrange a one-hour slot for an interview when both Richard and the journalist are free. Students then act out the role-play and arrange a mutually convenient time for the interview.
This future continuous vs. future perfect speaking activity helps students practice forming, asking and answering conversation questions in the future continuous and future perfect tense. First, in two groups, students complete conversation questions on the worksheet in the future continuous or future perfect using verbs in brackets. Next, students pair up with someone from the other group and take turns asking and answering the conversation questions with their partner, responding by giving their ideas in the future continuous or future perfect, according to the tense of each question. Afterwards, students share what they found out about their partner with the class.
In this comprehensive future continuous and future perfect worksheet, students use the two tenses to make predictions about when they are really old. First, students change sentences into future continuous or future perfect Wh questions and write which future tense is being used in each question. Students then use the future continuous and future perfect to write two more questions that they would like to ask their future selves. Next, students complete predictions with the negative form of the future continuous or future perfect. Lastly, students imagine themselves when they are really old and make predictions about their life using the future continuous and future perfect by answering the questions from Exercise A and B. Afterwards, students read their predictions to the class.
