Present Perfect Simple

Tvorimo ga od have (I/ you/ we/ they)/ has (he/ she/ it) + past
participle
-njene reenice haven't/ hasn't+ p.p.
-upitne: have/ has stavimo ispred subjekta+ p.p.
KORISTIMO GA ZA:
- kada priamo o neijem dosadanjem iskustvu
- za radnje koje su se desile u nekoj nedavnoj prolosti, ali ne
znamo vrijeme niti nam nije bitno, a te radnje imaju posljedicu ili
rezultat u sadanjosti:
- Someone has broken the window.
- za period vremena koji jo uvijek traje-today, this week, this
month
- uz odreene priloge:
ALREADY (ve)-dolazi izmeu have/has i p.p.
I have already seen this film.
Have you already washed the dishes?
JUST (upravo, ovog trena)- dolazi izmeu have/ has i p.p.
Someone has just come into the room.
I've heard a noise. Has someone just come into the room?
No, someone hasn't just come into the room.
YET (jo)- u njenim reenicama, dolazi na kraju
I haven't seen this film yet. Let's go and see it at the cinema.
Hasn't Paul returned yet? He should have been here hours ago.
EVER (ikada)- dolazi u pitanjima
Have you ever seen a ghost?
NEVER (nikada) dolazi u njenim reenicama, izmeu have/ has i p.p.
I have never seen a ghost.
RECENTLY/LATELY (nedavno) dolaze na kraju
I haven't seen him recently/lately.
FOR (ne prevodi se na hrvatski, a oznauje neki period vremena koliko
je prolo od nekog vremena u prolosti do sada).
I haven't seen him for a day/ a week/ a while/ a month/ a couple of
days.
I have been here for 10 minutes/ an hour.
SINCE ( od nekog vremena)

I haven't seen him since June, since last week/ since Monday/ last year.
BEFORE/ SO FAR/ ONCE/ TWICE
I haven't seen him before/ I have seen him once/ twice.
I have seen him many times so far.
1) FILL IN WITH ALREADY/ JUST/ YET
a) Do you want to come and visit Jane with me?
No,thanks. I have _______________ visited her.
b) Why are you so pale? You look as you have _____________ seen a
ghost.
c) Where are Jane and Tom? I haven't seen them _________________.
d) I'll buy her a nice sweater for her birthday.
- Don't do that! Mick has _____________ bought her a sweater.
e) She hasn't returned from school yet.
f) Hello, police? Someone has ________________ broken into our
house.

WRITE P.P. OF THESE VERBS:

BEGETHAVEBREAKEATBECOMECOMETAKEDRINKSINGSWIMSTEALRUNCUTPUTGO-

TRAVELSTOPFLYTHINKTEACHUNDERSTAND-

VOCABULARY
another word for precious is v__ __ __ __ __ __ __
Would you f__ __ __ __ going out to the cinema with me?
She didn't graduate. She was a school d__ __ __ __ __ __.

I was so happy when I got an A in English. I was in the seventh h__ __

__ __ __.
Do you see that handsome boy? Mary would like to d__ __ __
him.
If you stop going out with a guy you d__ __ __ him.
My brother has such a quick t__ __ __ __ __. He gets upset over every
little thing.
My friends always c__ __ __ __ __ __ in me. They tell me all their
secrets.
When you finish university you get a d__ __ __ __ __.
I'm not very k__ __ __ on football, I find it a bit boring.
He got his first l__ __ __ role in a comedy.
My mum always c__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ s everything I do, she's never
satisfied.
She's such a g__ __ __ __ __ , she knows everything about everyone

MATCH ADJECTIVES WITH THEIR DEFINITIONS

modest
and feelings openly

honest, showing your thoughts

frank

faithful, a true friend

loyal
your qualities

shy, not having a high opinion of

jealous
somebody loves

feeling upset because you think

another person, or you want

something somebody
else has, being envious

WRITE THE VERB THAT GOES TOGETHER WITH THESE NOUNS

a crush
a secret
________
promise

an argument
married

___________

_______

divorced

FILL IN THE MISSING PREPOSITIONS:

out/ up/behind/ down/ up/ in
1) Thank you for your trust in me! I will never let you ___________.
2) She hangs __________ with her friends at the shopping mall after
school.
3) Please, hand _________ your book reports by the end of the week,
said the teacher.
4) She missed two weeks of classes so now she is falling
____________ with her lessons but I'm sure she'll catch
everything_______ after some time.
5) Sorry I forgot about your birthday! I will make it _______ to you.
6) Tom and Mary have fallen __________ and don't talk to each other
anymore.
7) Children were brought _________ by their grandparents.

1) WRITE THE COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE OF THESE

ADJECTIVES:
nice
good
bad
far
comfortable
intelligent
sad
happy
beautiful
wet
2) PUT IN THE COMPARATIVE OR SUPERLATIVE OF THE ADJECTIVES
IN BRACKETS:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)

My friend is ________________(SHY) than me.

My friens is __________________ (SHY) person in our class.
The Sahara is ____________________ (DRY) place in the world.
She is _________________ (TALL) of her sisters.
Your bag is _______________(BIG) than mine.
My sister is ______________________ (INTELLIGENT) girl in her class.
He is _______________ (GOOD) friend I could ask for.
Her grades are ________________(BAD) than mine.
Wow! This is ________________________ (BEAUTIFUL) place I have
ever seen.
10)
Vampires are ______________(SCARY) than monsters.
MATCH:
Surf
Join
Download
Send

the school's website

an email
the Internet
a walk

Scan
Visit
Go for
Play
Go to
Do
Ride
Take part in

the chat room

computer games
a bike
sports
the cimena
some music
for viruses
after-school activities

FILL IN WITH THESE WORDS:

SHY RESPONSIBLE
STRAIGHT
PLUMP

LAZY

CHATTY

HELPFUL

1) My friend is so ___________________. He always does his

homework.
2) Don't be so ______________! Go and clean the room!
3) Girls are so ______________. They talk all the time.
4) She's got _______________ hair.
5) She isn't very thin. She's _______________.
6) My English teacher is very _________________. She always explains
me when I don't understand someting.
7) Jim is very _____________ and doesn't talk to anyone.

1) GUESS THE ANIMAL:

It's big. It's dangerous. It lives in the jungle. It can't fly. It can run fast.
It eats meat.
It's the king of all animas. It's a ________________.
It can be long or short. It is sometimes dangerous. It hasn't got any
legs. It's a ______________.

It's big. It lives in the water. It's fat. It's a ________________.

It's small. It has wings but it can't fly. It's black and white. It's a
________________.
It lives in the jungle. It's got long neck. It eats leaves. It's a
__________________.
It's a bird. It can be yellow, blue, green or orange. It can sometimes
talk,too. It's a _________________.

2) PUT IN HAS GOT/ CAN/IS

It__________ small. It __________ green. It _________ jump. It's a frog.
It____________ big. It ____________ a long trunk. It's an elephant.
It ______________ funny. It ____________ climb trees. It ______________
brown fur. It's a monkey.

hippos

penguins

monkeys

snakes

giraffes

WRITE WHERE THEY ARE

The
The
The
The
The

monkeys are __________________ the hippos and the giraffes.penguins are ______________________ the hippos.
snakes are ______________________ the penguins.
monkeys are _____________________ the snakes.
giraffes are ________________________ the monkeys-

PRESENT SIMPLE/ PRESENT CONTINUOUS/ PRESENT PERFECT

My friend Mike ________________(live) in Cambridge but each winter he
_______________(go) to Spain. He __________________(attend) several
Spanish language courses since he started going there and now he
_______________(speak) Spanish quite well. While he is in Spain, he
______________(go) mountain climbing and he _______________(climb) all
the important mountains at least once. Unfortunately, he broke his leg

last month so at the moment he _______________(read) and

_______________(watch) a lot of television. Usually he
_________________(not watch) much televison but since the accident he
________________( seen) at least two films every day.

TENSES REVISION
1) It is Friday evening and the Brown family are at home. Mrs Brown
_____________(listen) to a concert on the radio; Mr Brown _____________(read) a
paper, George Brown ______________ (do) his homework and Ann Brown
_________________(write) a letter.
2) Mr Brown always ___________(read) his newspapers in the evenings. Mrs Brown
sometimes _______________ (knit) but she _______________ (not knit) tonight.
3) Mr Black often ______________ (go) to the theatre but his wife _______________
(not go) very often. He_____________ (like) all sorts of plays. She _____________
(prefer) comedies. Tonight they ____________ (watch) a very modern comedy. They

_______________ (enjoy) it, but they _______________ (not understand) some of the
jokes.
4) What ______________ (happen) in your class? __________________(the
teacher/give) lectures every day? No. He ____________(give) one lecture a week,
and on the other days he ________________(show) films or
_________________(discuss) books with us.
5) Peter and Ann (decide) to redecorate their sitting-room themselves. They
_____________(choose) cream paint for the woodwork and apricot for the walls.When
John _______________(look) in to see how they _________________(get) on, Ann
________________ (mix) the paint, and Peter _________________(wash) down the
walls. They _______________glad to see John and _______________ (ask) if he
___________________anything special that day. 5 He hastily _______________he
________________ to the theatre and ____________away at once, because he
_______________(know) they _________________ (look) for someone to help them.
They ________________(begin) painting, but ______________(find) the walls
____________(be) too wet. While they _______________(wait) for the walls to dry,
Ann __________________ (remember) she _____________ (have) a phone call to
make. Peter ________________ (start) painting while she _____________________
(telephone), and ____________ (do) a whole wall before Ann ______________ (come)
back. He ______________ (grumble) that she ____________________
(always/telephone). Ann _______________(retort) that Peter
________________________ (always/complain). They ________________ (work) in
silence for some time. Just as they ________________(start) the third wall, the doorbell
_______________ (ring). It ___________(be) a friend of Peter's who _________ (want)
to know if Peter ________________(play) golf the following weekend. He
_____________(stay) talking to Peter in the hall while Ann ______________(go) on
painting. At last he ____________(leave). Peter ___________(return), expecting Ann to
say something about friends who ______________(come) and ____________(waste)
valuable time talking about golf. But Ann nobly ______________(say) nothing.
Then Peter _______________(think) he would do the ceiling. He just
_____________(climb) the step ladder when the doorbell (ring) again. Ann
____________(say) she _______________ (get) tired of interruptions but __________
(go) and ______________ (open) the door. It ____________(be) the postman with a
letter from her aunt Mary, saying she ___________________ (come) to spend the
weekend with them and____________________ (arrive) that evening at 6.30.
I _____________(buy) a new house last year, but I ________________(not sell) my old
house yet, so at the moment I have two houses.
When Ann___________ (be) on her way to the station it ____________(begin) to rain.
Ann ____________(run) back to her flat for her umbrella, but this (make) her late for
her train.
She______________ (catch) the next train but it _____________(not get) in till 9.00, so
she _________________(arrive) at her office ten minutes late.
Her boss _____________(look) up as she _____________(come) in. 'You
______________ (be) late every morning this week,' he_____________ (growl).
At 7 a.m. Charles _____________ (ring) Peter and ____________(say), 'I'm going
fishing, Peter. Would you like to come?'

'But it's so early,' ____________(say) Peter. I________________ (not have) breakfast

yet. Why ______________ (you/not tell) me last night?'
Tom _______________(meet) Paul at lunch time and____________ (say), I
_____________(not see) you at the bus stop this morning. ____________(you/miss)
the bus?'
'I _____________ (not miss) it,' ____________(reply) Paul. I _____________(not
miss) a bus for years. But this morning George ______________(give) me a lift. '
Ann ___________(go) to Canada six months ago. She ____________(work) in Canada
for a while and then _______________ (go) to the United States.
Mary _______________ (be) in Japan for two years. She is working there and likes it
very much. ~ How ____________ (she/go)? ~
She ___________ (go) by air.
When I ______________(buy) my new house I ___________(ask) for a telephone. The
Post Office ___________ (tell) me to wait, but I _____________ (wait) a year now
and my phone still _____________ (not come).
Bill usually has breakfast at 8.00. Yesterday at 8.30 Peter __________ (meet) Bill and
______________ (offer) him an apple. 'No, thanks,' __________ (say) Bill. I
___________(just/have) breakfast.'
Peter _____________(try) to come in quietly but his mother ____________(hear) him
and _____________(call) out, 'Where ___________ (you/be)? Your supper
____________(be) in the oven for an hour.'
___________________ (you/be)to the theatre lately? ~
Yes, I ______________(go) to Othello last week. ~
_______________ (you/like) it?Yes, but I ________________(not see) very well. I ______________ (be) right at the
back.
I hope you're enjoying your visit to England. ______________ (you/meet) any
Englishmen yet? ~
Yes, I ________________ (meet) a man called Smith at a party last night. ~
What _______________ (you/talk) about? ~
We ________________(talk) about the weather.
Tom: Don't you think it's time we ____________ (have) something different for, Sunday
dinner?
Ann: But we ______________ (have) roast beef for Sunday dinner ever since we
________________(get married. Your mother _____________(tell) me that you
_______________ (be) particularly fond of roast beef.
Tom: But my mother ___________________ (be) dead for five years and in those five
year my tastes ____________________ (change).