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Grammar:
I Have Lived Here
For Years
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

• discuss places you have lived.

• talk about experiences with for and since.

Warm Up
Ask and answer the questions.

• How long have you lived in your current location?

• Where have you lived in the past?

 Grammar Instruction
Learn when to use the past simple and the present perfect in English.

To talk about completed actions in the past, English To talk about past actions that are repeated, that
uses the past simple. Use the past simple with continue to the present and with non-specific times in
specific times in the past. Remember, some verbs the past, English uses the present perfect. English
are irregular in the past. Review them in the chart. often uses the present perfect with since and for.

subject + verb-ed + rest subject + has/have + past participle + rest

Verb Past Past For Since

Simple Participle (amount of time) (starting point)

to be was/were been one month July

to buy bought bought three years 2013

to go went gone

Now you try! Now you try!

Make a sentence Make a sentence in
Example: in the past simple Example: the present perfect
I lived downtown two years ago. about where you I have lived downtown for one month. about where you
She was in a suburb last year. lived in the past. She has been in a suburb since July. have lived.
Extension
Use this slide for additional instruction.
 Grammar Practice
Fill in the sentences using the past simple or the present perfect.

1 We a house in a suburb last month. We own it!

Word Bank:

2 They to the university to look at university housing yesterday. buy

live
3 He a private apartment from his landlord for five years.

move
4 She many times in the past. Now, she lives downtown.
go

5 We are usually downtown, but we in a suburb yesterday to

rent
visit a friend.

be
6 I in a residential area with a roommate since last year.
 Grammar Practice
Complete the sentences with for or since.

1 She has lived here ten years.

2 Carl has rented that apartment January.

3 We have been at the hotel two weeks.

4 They have lived in Italy six months.

5 I have been at home 7 pm.

6 You have lived in your new place a week.

 Here or There?
Have a discussion together.

You and your friends have lived in many places! Talk about where you and people
you know have lived. Decide when to use the past simple and the present perfect.

Past Simple Present Perfect

I lived in Miami in 2019. I have lived in a residential area since last year.
My sister was downtown last year. My friend has been in a suburb for five years.
Wrap-Up
Answer one of the following questions:

• What did you do well on today?

• What do you want to improve on?

• What is one thing you learned?