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Present perfect, past simple, present simple Present perfect 1 Make the present perfect using the verb have + past participle. 1/You/We/—have[Ve)visited have not haven’ They Pvenot visite ‘Make questions and short answers follows: Yes} have EE Noilhaven {J you/we/they visited .? 2 Use the presont perfect to talk about recent events oF 3 past event which the speaker feels is connected with the prosant. Kars very hoppy that he has graduate (Petia they arrived? Ye they here Past simple 3. Usethe past simple to talk about a finished action in thepast, oh Harvard died. ‘Matt Damon went ro Horvrd Present simple 4 Use the present simple to talk about present facts orevents. study Marhemancs a Horan There are 15 students my clas Present perfect vs. present simple 5. Use the present perfec, not the present simple, for an vent ora citation which hogan in the pact and continues Inthe present, when we want to say how much time it has boon going on Harvard has been a university since 1636, NOT wmaraavrsyn Natale how fon have you worked inthe move business? NOT alayouwort hasnt rained for months now NOT = did't. 6 Gohas two past participles: gone and been. 2 diffrence in meaning ‘My brother has gone to America. [-Mybrotheristrveling te America ors there ron) hy roe as teem re [2My brother went 1 America but he back home rom Present perfect vs. past simple 7 Use the present perfect when we donot know ‘exactly when the past event took place or itis not Inport Use tha pet plat give deta laer- Have you seen my book? i ree eerie Tuesday. Prestint Obema has arrived in nce He met Inia business men and visited 8 With the prosent perfect, we use words which mean ‘atatime up to new eg. already, ever, for lately, never, recently since, yet. Wit te past we use ‘words and expressions which mean a nished period ‘oftime,e. ago n 2003. last week. on my birthday. then wien, yesterday. Toroca hn aren graduated We never been to imerca The university started in 1636, ast Saturday we had a party 9 With today and this + time words e this “afternoon, this year we can use the present perfect. ‘orthe past simple. Use th present perfect to mean ‘the complete time period up to now. Use the past ‘simple to moan a finished par of that time period. ve phoned fh this morning Utisstil the moring) ‘phoned jonn zis mori. (teienew the 2Ferman} In conversation, we can often us either the ‘past simple or the present perfec. Did you speak to fim? ‘OR Have you spoken tom? ‘Brenda bought hat. ‘Of Brenda has bough «ha Practice ‘A. Complete these news stores withthe present perfect and the past simple. 1 JomnBace, 445.4 _ (win) three milion eurosin alottery He Flt uy helen eke st Sturt and 2 Princess ola and Si Fh Fal (ratty) They ee! ae pry at Windsor Cate 08 2 Cameron Bowie oa the BOO ecard Oslo He (run) 140.23, the fastest timein the 4 Farmer Bo Peep lose lhe sheep. She {Cal he police lastnight bu hey 5 PopstarDonna Ma [zo] olive in Greenland, ‘The popstar (soy tha. 6 Builders Hansel and Gretel Sweet (outa) house eur of sugar Work onthe house (stan) ‘wo yeas ago ard — 18 Underline the correct option. Lets go out, The rain stops /bas stoped [Alice ess ten leet for the years. Itis/ns been my birthday today. Tony does speak hast spoken German Tony dsr speak has’ spoken to me fr years Do you eve see Have you ever een my school photos? ‘olay / have played it twice This cake doesn case /hasne casted very ice England hos as had aking or queen for more than 1.000 yeas 10, Wha thins /has thought ho known the anor? {© Match the pairs 1 Leo Tolstoy: has written mary books. 2 Thatwoman nex toyou>

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