have you ever eaten insects? have you ever seen a ghost? have you ever had an accident?
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Have you ever eaten insects?
Have you ever seen a ghost?
Have you ever had an accident?
The present perfect is often used for an action
which started at some time in the past, and is still continuing now. Example:
When do we use the PRESENT PERFECT
Past tense
I lived in USA in 2001
Present tense
Now, I live in
Mexico (2008)
I have lived in USA
Present perfect tense
To form the PRESENT PERFECT you need to remember that in English
we have two kinds of verbs in this tense, Regular Verbs and
Irregular Verbs .
Regular Verbs
Want/Wanted/wanted Talk/Talked/talked
Open /opened/opened Close/closed/closed
Walk/walked/walked Play /played/played
Listen/listened/listened Jump/jumped/jumped
Watch/watched/watched
Dance/danced/danced
Cry/cried/cried
Clean/cleaned/cleaned
Wait/waited/waited
Climb/climbed/climbed
Work/worked/worked
Play/played/played
IRREGULAR VERBS
Win/won/won
Give/gave/given Find/found/found
Break/broke/broken
Take/took/taken
Think/thought/thought Cut/cut/cut
Buy/bought/bought
Read/read/read Write/wrote/written
Sleep/slept/slept Run/ran/run
Eat/ate/eaten
Drink/drank/drunk
Fly/flew/flown
Speak/spoke/spoken
To form the Negative Form we just need to add NOTHave not =haven’t has not =hasn’t
Carlos has gone to Houston
AFIRMATIVE FORM
I have played soccer in this team
Sandra has met a famous actor.
We have worked here since 2001
I haven’t played soccer in this team
Carlos hasn’t gone to Houston
Sandra hasn’t met a famous actor
We haven’t worked here since 2001
NEGATIVE FORM
COMPLETE THE STATEMENTS WRITING THE VERBS IN PARENTHESIS IN PARTICIPLE:
A. My mother _______________________ a delicious dinner. (prepare)
B. Susan and Carlos ____________________ to Europe twice this year. (go)
C. I _____________________ a ghost (not/see)
D. The teacher _____________________ the students with their homework. (help)
E. Maria ____________________ a great picture in the school. (paint)
F. We _____________________ money for our wedding. (not/save)
G. Rayados ______________________ a soccer match. (win)
H. Luis _____________________ all the questions in the exam. (not/answer)
I. I ______________________ in this company since 2001. (work)
J. My parents _____________________ to Tampico. (travel)
YES / NO QUESTIONS
YES / NO QUESTIONS AFIRMATIVE Negative
Have you ever ridden a horse? Yes, I have No, I haven’t
Have you ever eaten frog’s legs?Yes, I have
already eaten No, I haven’t
eaten yet
Have you ever copied in an exam? Yes, I have No, I haven’t
Has he ever gone to Tampico? Yes, he has No, I hasn’t
Has Mary ever had an accident? Yes she has No she hasn’t
When do we use FOR and SINCE We use for with a period of time, for example:
For a few daysfor half an hour for two years
For a year For three hours
We use since with the time when the action started, for example:
Since last year Since June 8th Since I met you
Since I started the course Since last week
Exercise. Decide if you need for or since with these time expressions
LAST WEEKEND
TEN SECONDS
I FINISHED SCHOOL
MY BIRTHDAY
A LONG TIME
FIFTEEN YEARS
I WAS A BOY
AUGUST
Exercise. Do we use for or since with the following time references
We’ve been here ___________ nine o’clock
I have worked for International House __________ more than eight years
I haven’t visited my home town ___________ i left school
I haven’t been to the cinema __________ ages
I have studied non-stop _________ 9:15
I have had a driving licence _____________ I was eighteen
She hasn’t had a day off ___________ 1999
Johan has been in England ___________ more than two weeks now
Peter has been my best friend __________ we were nine