TUESDAY, 24 August

WEEK 7
STAGE 1 – Reading
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Present perfect simple

a
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 to have (present) + past
participle
AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE INTERROGATIVE
I/you/we/they have I/you/we/they Have I/you/we/they
found the report. haven’t found the found the report?
report.
He/she/it has found He/she/it hasn’t Has he/she/it found
the report. found the report. the report?
Short answers:
Yes, I/you/we/they
have.
Yes, he/she/it has.
No, I/you/we/they
haven’t.
No, he/she/it hasn’t.
 to have (present) + past
participle

• We add –ed to regular verbs to form the past participle:

▫ Work  worked, walk  walked, play  played

Notice the spelling rules for other regular verbs:

• for verbs ending in -e, we add -d: die  died
• for verbs ending in -y, we change the -y to -i and add -
ed: try  tried, cry  cried, study  studied
• for verbs ending in vowel + consonant (not -w, -x ot -y),
we double the consonant: stop  stopped
 to have (present) + past
participle

• What are the irregular past participles?

• Buy  bought o To go been
• Do  done I have been to the
shops (and now I’m
• Find  found
back)
• See  saw
gone
• Take 
took
• Teach  He’s gone to work
taught today (and he isn’t
back yet)
Present perfect simple
We use this tense to talk about:

• An action that happened sometime in the past (but

we don’t know the exact time).
▫ E.g.: I’ve worked in several banks in London.
• An action that started in the past and is still true
today.
▫ E.g.: Mark hasn’t found the watch he lost (it is still lost).

• When we use this tense, often we do not say when the

action happened.
▫ E.g.: I’ve been to Rome (but I don’t say when).
 has worked

have seen
Has visited

hasn’t eaten

haven’t been

Have copied

have bought
 Duration with the present perfect

• If I want to talk about duration with the present

perfect, we use for and since.

• For = length of time

▫ I have lived in Ireland for one year.

when the action began

• Since =
▫ I have lived here since March 2020.
Present perfect vs Past simple
• An action that happened • We use the past
sometime in the past simple to describe a
(but we don’t know the
finished action at a
exact time).
▫ E.g.: I’ve been to Rome definite time in the
(we don’t say when). past.
• An action that started ▫ E.g.: I went to
in the past and is still Rome last year.
true today.
▫ E.g.: Mark hasn’t found
the watch he lost (it is
still lost).
 have changed
have worked

have often lived

was
took
developed
 started
spent

searched
found
approached
took

have never been

found won
sold taught
bought grown
flown run
thought lost
done fallen
 Have you ever...?

• been on TV?
• driven or rode in a sports car?
• eaten anything really strange?
• walked into something when you were texting?
• gotten a horrible haircut?
• been on a stage in front of a lot of people?