• Quick retrieval from earlier learning (Present perfect (has/have + past participle); Present and past progressive (-ing)). Students answer on mini whiteboards.
• Show answers together and note who needs support in the main task.

1. Choose the correct present perfect form. I ___ never ___ a camel. (have, rode / have, ride / has, ridden / have, ridden) → have, riddenPrompt: Use has with he, she, it; use have with I, you, we, they.
2. Choose the correct -ing form of the verb. When the phone rang, I ___ (read). (am reading / was reading / reading / read) → was readingPrompt: Is it happening now or was it happening in the past?
3. Choose the correct present perfect form. The bus ___ yet. (not has arrived / haven't arrived / hasn't arrive / hasn't arrived) → hasn't arrivedPrompt: Use has with he, she, it; use have with I, you, we, they.

• Show a sentence with the grammar point used wrongly and ask what sounds odd.
• Share the objective: Perfect tenses (past, present, future). Read the success criteria together.

• Work through the example out loud, saying why you do each step, not just what you do.
• Example: Choose the correct perfect tense. By the time we arrived, the film ___ (start).
• Step 1: Perfect tenses show an action completed before another time.
• Step 2: It happened before another past event, so we use the past perfect (had + participle).
• Step 3: Put it back into the sentence and read it aloud: "By the time we arrived, the film had started."
• Step 4: So the answer is: had started
• Answer: had started
• Pause after each step and ask a student to say what comes next.

• Do these together. Students try each step on whiteboards before you reveal it.
• Use the hints as prompts rather than giving the answer.

1. Choose the correct perfect tense. We ___ (visit) the museum twice this year. (will have visited / had visited / have visited / visiting) → have visitedPrompt: Is the action finished before a past time, before now, or before a future time?
2. Choose the correct perfect tense. I ___ (live) here for six years. (had lived / am living / have lived / will have lived) → have livedPrompt: Is the action finished before a past time, before now, or before a future time?

• Students work on the student sheet. Circulate and check the first two answers of every student early.
• Students who finish: write a question of their own for a partner, with the answer.

The 8 questions are on the student sheet below, with answers in the key.

• Two questions on their own. Sort answers into got it / nearly / not yet to plan the next lesson.

1. Choose the correct perfect tense. We ___ (visit) the museum twice this year. (will have visited / visiting / have visited / had visited) → have visitedPrompt: Is the action finished before a past time, before now, or before a future time?
2. Choose the correct perfect tense. By next June, she ___ (finish) school. (has finished / had finished / will have finished / finishes) → will have finishedPrompt: Is the action finished before a past time, before now, or before a future time?

Free online practice with hints and printable worksheets for this skill: eurekami.com/english/grade-5.