Present Perfect Workshop

Activity 1
The past participle of the irregular verbs is the principal parts of a sentence/question in present perfect. The past participle of regular
verbs is the same as the SIMPLE PAST form: both end in -ed. The past participle of irregular verbs is the third column of the list of verbs
that we need to remember.

REGULAR VERBS finish finished finished

stop stopped stopped
wait waited waited
IRREGULAR VERBS see saw seen
make made made
put put put

Activity 2
How many past participles can you write in a minute? Write the past participles that you remember without looking at the phone or
book.
____________ ____________ _____________ _____________ ____________ ____________
____________ ____________ ____________ ______________ ___________ ____________
When you finish, check your verbs with your partner and correct them. (Use your students’ book pg. 182).

Activity 3
Fill the puzzle with the appropriate past participle of the following verbs:

1. Wear
2. Think 3
3. Write 1       
4. Hurt   8  
5. Understand   4 6  
6. Teach
2                 
7. Grow
8. Steal        
       
    7          
 
5                    
Activity 4
Write the correct form of the verb in the Present Perfect Tense on the line. Use the negative when necessary.

Roberta Stack is making a lot of progress in her career as a concert pianist. This year she (give) .................. more than thirty concerts
in the U. S. and twenty other countries around the world. She (travel) .................... to almost every country in Europe and Africa, but
she still (visit) .......................... any countries in Asia. She wants to do an Asian tour next year, if possible. Right now she is busy
working on her newest album. She (finish) .......................... recording all of it yet, but she has to stop working on the album soon,
because she (accept) .......................... an offer to compose music for a movie.

SIMPLE PAST vs. PRESENT PERFECT

Activity 5
Complete the following sentences using simple past or present perfect:

a. I _____________________ (move) to Seattle in January. I _____________________ (live) here for 3 months now. I
_____________________ (live) in Canada from 1978 to 1980.
b. My friend ______________ (live) in Seattle since 1990.
c. My teacher in my country was British. I _________________ (study) with her for 1 year.
d. Now my teacher is American. I _________________ (study) with her since the beginning of the quarter.
e. My father __________________ (work) hard all of his life. (he is dead.)
f. My father __________________ (work) hard all of his life. (He is alive.)
g. My friend works at Microsoft now, but before that, she ____________________ (have) a job with Boeing.
h. Since January, I _________________ (have) a great job. I feel very lucky.
i. My parents ____________________ (like) my girlfriend since they met her.
Activity 7
Complete the following paragraphs with the correct tense (present perfect or simple past).

1. Last night, I _______________________________ (talk) to my friend and she___________ (have) great news. She’s getting
married soon. But she ___________________ (tell/not) her parents yet. They ______________________ (be) angry at her for two
weeks because she ____________________________________ (borrow) their car and _______________ (have) an accident two
weeks ago.

2. Last week, I _____________ (meet) my friend at a restaurant. We _____________ (have) many things to talk about. He is married
now. He __________________ (be) married for 2 years. Since 1990, he _______________ (work) for a travel agency. He
____________ (travel) around the world twice and he is going to go again next year. I _____________ _______________________
(meet/never) his wife. He___________________ (say) she likes to travel, too.

3. Film maker George Richards  (be) ________________interested in the cinema since he  (be) ________________a small child.
He  (make) __________________his first film when he  (be) ________________just twelve years old. He is now almost forty and
he  (make) ________________thirty films. George loves travelling. His work  (take) ________________him all over the world. He  (be)
________________ to Africa, India, Australia, China, the USA and South America. Last year, he  (visit) ________________ Russia for
the first time. George is married to the singer Kathy Burke. They  (be) ________________married for ten years. They live with their two
children on the Greek island of Kos. They  (buy) ________________a house on the island in 1987 and they  (live)
________________there since then.

4. Since computers were first introduced to the public in the early 1980's, technology (change) ________________ a great deal. The
first computers (be) ________________  simple machines designed for basic tasks. They (have, not) ________________ much
memory and they (be, not) ________________ very powerful. Early computers were often quite expensive and customers often (pay)
________________  thousands of dollars for machines which actually (do)  very little. Most computers
(be)  ________________separate, individual machines used mostly as expensive typewriters or for playing games. 

5. Times (change) ________________ . Computers (become) ________________ powerful machines with very practical applications.
Programmers (create) ________________ a large selection of useful programs which do everything from teaching foreign languages to
bookkeeping. We are still playing video games, but today's games (become) ________________ faster, more exciting interactive
adventures. Many computer users (get, also) ________________ on the Internet and (begin)  ________________communicating with
other computer users around the world. We (start)  ________________to create international communities online. In short, the simple,
individual machines of the past (evolve) ________________ into an international World Wide Web of knowledge.