Resource centre - English grammar - Present perfect
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Meaning
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Present Perfect Continuous
Tense and aspect
Articles
Be used to
Causative Have
Comparatives
Few and Little
First Conditional
Future Continuous
Future Perfect
Get Used To
Have and Have Got
Indirect Questions
Lend and Borrow
Passive
Past Continuous
Past Perfect Continuous
Past Perfect Simple
Past Simple
Present Continuous
Present Perfect Continuous
Present Perfect Simple
Present Simple
Questions
Reflexive Pronouns
Reported Questions
Reported Speech
Reporting Verbs
Say and Tell
Second Conditional
Small and Little
So and Such
Tag Questions
Third Conditional
Too and Enough
Used to
Will and Going to
Wish
Zero Conditional
Affirmative: have/has + verb 3 (past participle)
Negative: haven't/hasn't + verb 3 (past participle)
(See the phonemic chart for IPA symbols used below)
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Teacher informs sts that he
will exit the classroom and something will be different about him. When he comes
back the sts have to say what the teacher 'has done'.
Teacher leaves, comes back with no shoes on, watch taken off, tie over his
shoulder, belt off etc, now teacher elicits from sts "you have taken off your
watch".
- for event in the past with present effects though when it happened is not
important.
Find two pictures of the same
building - maybe a house. One photo is of the house wrecked and the other is of
it cleaned up. Now ask the sts what have I done to the house to elicit the
tense:
"You have replaced the door"...
- for past event having present effect though when it happened is not important.
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