PRESENT

PERFECT FOR
EXPERIENCE

TEACHER: ADRIANA ARANGO

We use the
Present
Perfect to
talk about
our
experience
• and to talk about
things that have
recently
happened as
well as things that
happened a
long time ago.
 We form it
with the
present
simple of the
verb HAVE +
THE PAST
PARTICIPLE
 EXAMPLES:
• I HAVE GONE TO THE
U.S.A

Subject + Aux. have/has + Verb in Past Participle + Complement

• SHE HAS EATEN SUSHI

I
YOU
WE HAVE + VERB PAST PARTICIPLE
THEY AUX. VERB

HE
SHE
IT HAS + VERB PAST PARTICIPLE
AUX. VERB
 SHORT FORMS
 I HAVE ------------ --I’VE…
 YOU HAVE ------- -YOU’VE..
 HE HAS ------------- HE’S…
 SHE HAS ------------SHE’S
…
 IT HAS --------------- IT’S…
 WE HAVE ---------- WE’VE…
 YOU HAVE--- ------YOU’VE…
 THEY HAVE --------
THEY’VE…
NEGATIVE FORM
• We can form the negative
with have + not =
haven’t

has + not = hasn’t-

( third
person- he, she, it )
Examples:
They haven’t won the
match
 INTERROGATIVE FORM

• We often use ever in

present perfect question
when we mean at any
time in someone´s life.

Example:
• Have you ever ridden
a camel ? Yes, I have.
No, I haven’t.
 PAST PARTICIPLE OF THE
VERBS.
We use past participles
when we form the present
perfect tense. For regular
verbs the past participle
in the present perfect is
the same as the past
simple. Examples:
Simple past Past
participle
finished finished
Closed closed
 PAST PARTICIPLE OF THE
VERBS
• For Irregular verbs the
past participle is often
different from the
simple past.
Examples:
Simple past Past
participle
ate eaten
went gone
did done
• See the irregular verb
 Exercise:
Look at your list verbs and
write the past participle of
these verbs:
 Be _________________
 Built________________
 Buy_________________
 Draw_______________
 Drink_______________
 Found______________
 Drive__________________
 Give___________________
 Have__________________
 Keep__________________
 Know__________________
 Make__________________
 Read__________________
 Run____________________
 Ride___________________