Present Perect

Have you ever eaten insects?

Have you ever seen a ghost?

Have you ever had an accident?

The present perfect is often used for an action

which started at some time in the past, and is still continuing now. Example:

When do we use the PRESENT PERFECT

Past tense

I lived in USA in 2001

Present tense

Now, I live in

Mexico (2008)

I have lived in USA

Present perfect tense

To form the PRESENT PERFECT you need to remember that in English

we have two kinds of verbs in this tense, Regular Verbs and

Irregular Verbs .

Regular Verbs

Want/Wanted/wanted Talk/Talked/talked

Open /opened/opened Close/closed/closed

Walk/walked/walked Play /played/played

Listen/listened/listened Jump/jumped/jumped

Watch/watched/watched

Dance/danced/danced

Cry/cried/cried

Clean/cleaned/cleaned

Wait/waited/waited

Climb/climbed/climbed

Work/worked/worked

Play/played/played

IRREGULAR VERBS

Win/won/won

Give/gave/given Find/found/found

Break/broke/broken

Take/took/taken

Think/thought/thought Cut/cut/cut

Buy/bought/bought

Read/read/read Write/wrote/written

Sleep/slept/slept Run/ran/run

Eat/ate/eaten

Drink/drank/drunk

Fly/flew/flown

Speak/spoke/spoken

To form the Negative Form we just need to add NOTHave not =haven’t has not =hasn’t

Carlos has gone to Houston

AFIRMATIVE FORM

I have played soccer in this team

Sandra has met a famous actor.

We have worked here since 2001

I haven’t played soccer in this team

Carlos hasn’t gone to Houston

Sandra hasn’t met a famous actor

We haven’t worked here since 2001

NEGATIVE FORM

COMPLETE THE STATEMENTS WRITING THE VERBS IN PARENTHESIS IN PARTICIPLE:

A. My mother _______________________ a delicious dinner. (prepare)

B. Susan and Carlos ____________________ to Europe twice this year. (go)

C. I _____________________ a ghost (not/see)

D. The teacher _____________________ the students with their homework. (help)

E. Maria ____________________ a great picture in the school. (paint)

F. We _____________________ money for our wedding. (not/save)

G. Rayados ______________________ a soccer match. (win)

H. Luis _____________________ all the questions in the exam. (not/answer)

I. I ______________________ in this company since 2001. (work)

J. My parents _____________________ to Tampico. (travel)

YES / NO QUESTIONS

YES / NO QUESTIONS AFIRMATIVE Negative

Have you ever ridden a horse? Yes, I have No, I haven’t

Have you ever eaten frog’s legs?Yes, I have

already eaten No, I haven’t

eaten yet

Have you ever copied in an exam? Yes, I have No, I haven’t

Has he ever gone to Tampico? Yes, he has No, I hasn’t

Has Mary ever had an accident? Yes she has No she hasn’t

When do we use FOR and SINCE We use for with a period of time, for example:

For a few daysfor half an hour for two years

For a year For three hours

We use since with the time when the action started, for example:

Since last year Since June 8th Since I met you

Since I started the course Since last week

Exercise. Decide if you need for or since with these time expressions

LAST WEEKEND

TEN SECONDS

I FINISHED SCHOOL

MY BIRTHDAY

A LONG TIME

FIFTEEN YEARS

I WAS A BOY

AUGUST

Exercise. Do we use for or since with the following time references

We’ve been here ___________ nine o’clock

I have worked for International House __________ more than eight years

I haven’t visited my home town ___________ i left school

I haven’t been to the cinema __________ ages

I have studied non-stop _________ 9:15

I have had a driving licence _____________ I was eighteen

She hasn’t had a day off ___________ 1999

Johan has been in England ___________ more than two weeks now

Peter has been my best friend __________ we were nine