Learn the perfect tense, from has finished to had seen, and use it to show time, cause and links between paragraphs by solving five detective cases.
Years 5–6 english · 1
Years 5–6 english · 1
Years 5–6 english · 1
Year 5 english · 2
Year 5 english · 2 Years 5–6 english · 1
What the chapters cover in the national curriculum in England:
Perfect Tense is an interactive grammar game that teaches children aged 9–11 how to use the present perfect and past perfect to show time and cause, and how to link paragraphs in their writing, matching the KS2 English curriculum for Years 5 and 6.
Players join Tock, a clockwork owl detective, to bake cakes, watch trains leave and build bridges between story islands. They build verbs from word tiles, place events on a timeline and type their own answers. Along the way they meet the past participle (the verb form after has, have or had, such as gone or eaten) and learn why ‘has went’ and ‘had ate’ are mistakes.
They also discover adverbials of time, place and number, such as later, nearby and secondly. Every line is read aloud with captions, and a ten-clue final challenge checks everything.
The perfect tense uses has, have or had with a past participle, such as ‘has finished’ or ‘had seen’. It shows that something happened before a certain time and often still matters, like ‘I have lost my key, so I can’t get in.’
The present perfect (has or have plus a past participle) links a past action to now. The past perfect (had plus a past participle) points back to an earlier event in the past, as in ‘When Mia arrived, the train had left.’
‘Has went’ is wrong because has and have need the past participle, not the simple past. Go, went, gone: the third form is the past participle, so the correct phrase is ‘has gone’. The same goes for ‘had ate’, which should be ‘had eaten’.
The game is made for children aged 9 to 11, in Years 5 and 6. It follows the KS2 English grammar objectives on the perfect form of verbs and on linking ideas across paragraphs.
It has five chapters and a ten-question final challenge, and takes about 45 minutes to play through. Each chapter opens with a short animated introduction, uses tiles, timelines and typed answers, and ends with an animated recap.
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