In this presentation you can learn and practice the use of the Present Perfect

1. Have you ever eaten insects? Present Perfect/already/yet Present Perfect vs Past tense By Profr. Jose M. Jaramillo S. February, 2008 Have you ever seen a ghost? Have you ever had an accident?

2. 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 ? I lived in USA in 2001 Now, I live in Mexico (2008) PAST TENSE PRESENT TENSE I have lived in USA PRESENT PERFECT TENSE You refer to an specific action in the past and is important in the present

3. 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 Suty-Stud ied Change the –y if there is a consonant before and add –ed Play- play ed Verbs ending in –y preceded by a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) add -ed Love- lov ed Save-sav ed One –e at the end of the verb: Leave the –e and add –d Stop-stop ped Shop-shop ped Consonant after a short, stressed vowel at the end of a word, doble the consonant Add –ed to the regular vebs

4. REGULAR VERBS

5. Want/Wanted/wanted Talk/Talked/talked Open /opened/opened Close/closed/closed

6. Walk/walked/walked Play /played/played Listen/listened/listened Jump/jumped/jumped

7. Watch/watched/watched Dance/danced/danced Cry/cried/cried Clean/cleaned/cleaned

8. Wait/waited/waited Climb/climbed/climbed Work/worked/worked Play/played/played

9. Cook/cooked/cooked Call/called/called Study/studied/studied Share/shared/shared

10. Push/pushed/pushed Pull/pulled/pulled Fix/fixed/fixed

11. Colour/coloured/coloured Wash/washed/washed Ask/asked/asked

12. Irregular Verbs With the Irregular Verbs some of them change completly. Example: Present Past Participle GO WENT GONE

13. IRREGULAR VERBS

14. Win/won/won Give/gave/given Find/found/found Break/broke/broken

15. Take/took/taken Think/thought/thought Cut/cut/cut Buy/bought/bought

16. Read/read/read Write/wrote/writen Sleep/slept/slept Run/ran/run

17. Fly/flew/flown Take/took/taken a bath Eat/ate/eaten Drink/drank/drunk

18. Swim/swam/swum Make/made/made Fight/fought/fought Speak/spoke/spoken

19. Ride/rode/ridden Sing/sang/sung Go/went/gone Come/came/come

20. Drive/drove/driven Do/did/done homework Wake up/woke up/woken up

21. Look for the Past Participle form of the following verbs in your list. PAST PAST PARTICIPLE PARTICIPLE 18.- hear 9.- see 17.- read 8. Eat 16.- bring 7. get 15.- sing 6. Go 14.- ring 5.- leave 13.- buy 4.- do 12.- write 3.- run 11.- make 2. Take 10.-forget 1. Drive

22. We form the Present Perfect with the auxiliar have or has and the past participle of the verb Form of the Present Perfect a ghost in my house. seen have I practicing English today. been have We too hard this day. worked have The group All the exercises in the class. done have Luis and Mike a lot today. eaten has My dog her room twice in this week. cleaned has Martha English in the University. studied has Juan To Tampico once. gone have You San Francisco twice. visited have I Complement Verb in Participle Auxiliar Pronouno or Subject

23. To form the Negative Form we just need to add NOT to the auxiliar. have not = haven’t has not = hasn’t We haven’t worked here since 2001. Sandra hasn’t met a famous actor. Carlos hasn’t gone to Houston. I haven’t played soccer in this team. NEGATIVE FORM We have worked here since 2001 . Sandra has met a famous actor. Carlos has gone to Houston. I have played soccer in this team. AFIRMATIVE FORM

24. COMPLETE THE CHART WRITING THE VERBS IN PAST TENSE AND PARTICIPLE. 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) J. I ______________________ in this company since 2001. (work) K. My parents _____________________ to Tampico. (travel) WROTE WRITE WORKED WORK TOLD TELL HAD HAVE MADE MAKE WENT GO EATEN EAT DID DO ANSWER BEEN WAS/WERE BE PARTICIPLE PAST PRESENT SIMPLE

25. YES / NO QUESTIONS No, she hasn’t had it yet. Yes, she has already had it. Has Mary ever had an acciden? No, he hasn’t No, I haven’t. No, I haven’t eaten yet. No, I haven’t Negative Yes, he has Yes, I have. Yes, I have already eaten. Yes, I have. Afirmative Has he ever gone to Tampico? Have you ever copied in an exam? Have you ever eaten frog’s legs? Have you ever ridden a horse? YES/NO QUESTIONS

26. Contractions You’ ve You have We’ ve We have They’ ve They have It ’s It has He’ s He has She’ s She has You’ ve You have I’ ve I have You haven’t You have not We haven’t We have not They haven’t They have not It hasn’t It has not He hasn’t He has not She hasn’t She has not You haven’t You have not I haven’t I have not

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29. Exercise. Decide if you need for or since with these time expressions. THEN THE ACCIDENT FIFTEEN YEARS THE LAST MONTH AUGUST I WAS A BOY THE 70’s TEN CENTURIES A LONG TIME MY BIRTHDAY A COUPLE OF DAYS I FINISHED SCHOOL A DECADE CHRISTMAS EVE TEN SECONDS LAST WEEKEND

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