Unit 10 N.I.2

Have you ever eaten insects? Present Perfect/already/yet Present Perfect vs Past tense By Profr. Jose M. Jaramillo S. February, 2008 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 ? I lived in USA in 2001 Now, I live in Mexico (2008) PAST TENSE PRESENT TENSE I have lived in USA PRESENT PERFECT TENSE You refer to an specific action in the past and is important in the present

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 Suty-Stud ied Change the –y if there is a consonant before and add –ed Play- play ed Verbs ending in –y preceded by a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) add -ed Love- lov ed Save-sav ed One –e at the end of the verb: Leave the –e and add –d Stop-stop ped Shop-shop ped Consonant after a short, stressed vowel at the end of a word, doble the consonant Add –ed to the regular vebs

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

Cook/cooked/cooked Call/called/called Study/studied/studied Share/shared/shared

Push/pushed/pushed Pull/pulled/pulled Fix/fixed/fixed

Colour/coloured/coloured Wash/washed/washed Ask/asked/asked

Irregular Verbs With the Irregular Verbs some of them change completly. Example: Present Past Participle GO WENT GONE

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/writen Sleep/slept/slept Run/ran/run

Fly/flew/flown Take/took/taken a bath Eat/ate/eaten Drink/drank/drunk

Swim/swam/swum Make/made/made Fight/fought/fought Speak/spoke/spoken

Ride/rode/ridden Sing/sang/sung Go/went/gone Come/came/come

Drive/drove/driven Do/did/done homework Wake up/woke up/woken up

Look for the Past Participle form of the following verbs in your list. PAST PAST PARTICIPLE PARTICIPLE 18.- hear 9.- see 17.- read 8. Eat 16.- bring 7. get 15.- sing 6. Go 14.- ring 5.- leave 13.- buy 4.- do 12.- write 3.- run 11.- make 2. Take 10.-forget 1. Drive

We form the Present Perfect with the auxiliar have or has and the past participle of the verb Form of the Present Perfect a ghost in my house. seen have I practicing English today. been have We too hard this day. worked have The group All the exercises in the class. done have Luis and Mike a lot today. eaten has My dog her room twice in this week. cleaned has Martha English in the University. studied has Juan To Tampico once. gone have You San Francisco twice. visited have I Complement Verb in Participle Auxiliar Pronouno or Subject

To form the Negative Form we just need to add NOT to the auxiliar. have not = haven’t has not = hasn’t We haven’t worked here since 2001. Sandra hasn’t met a famous actor. Carlos hasn’t gone to Houston. I haven’t played soccer in this team. NEGATIVE FORM We have worked here since 2001 . Sandra has met a famous actor. Carlos has gone to Houston. I have played soccer in this team. AFIRMATIVE FORM

COMPLETE THE CHART WRITING THE VERBS IN PAST TENSE AND PARTICIPLE. 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) J. I ______________________ in this company since 2001. (work) K. My parents _____________________ to Tampico. (travel) WROTE WRITE WORKED WORK TOLD TELL HAD HAVE MADE MAKE WENT GO EATEN EAT DID DO ANSWER BEEN WAS/WERE BE PARTICIPLE PAST PRESENT SIMPLE

YES / NO QUESTIONS No, she hasn’t had it yet. Yes, she has already had it. Has Mary ever had an acciden? No, he hasn’t No, I haven’t. No, I haven’t eaten yet. No, I haven’t Negative Yes, he has Yes, I have. Yes, I have already eaten. Yes, I have. Afirmative Has he ever gone to Tampico? Have you ever copied in an exam? Have you ever eaten frog’s legs? Have you ever ridden a horse? YES/NO QUESTIONS

Contractions You’ ve You have We’ ve We have They’ ve They have It ’s It has He’ s He has She’ s She has You’ ve You have I’ ve I have You haven’t You have not We haven’t We have not They haven’t They have not It hasn’t It has not He hasn’t He has not She hasn’t She has not You haven’t You have not I haven’t I have not

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When do we use FOR and SINCE? We use for with a period of time, for example: For a few days, for 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. THEN THE ACCIDENT FIFTEEN YEARS THE LAST MONTH AUGUST I WAS A BOY THE 70’s TEN CENTURIES A LONG TIME MY BIRTHDAY A COUPLE OF DAYS I FINISHED SCHOOL A DECADE CHRISTMAS EVE TEN SECONDS LAST WEEKEND

Exercise. Do we use for or since with the following time references?. I haven’t phoned home ___________ Christmas. 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.

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Unit 10 N.I.2

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