Summer has already arrived

5th grade

Present Perfect Tense FORM: have/has + past participle

Affirmative: I have seen the film before.

• She has seen the film before.

Interrogative: Have you seen the film before?

Has she seen the film before?

Negative: They haven’t seen the film before!

He hasn’t seen that film before!

Present Perfect Tense Use of the present perfect tense

1- Recent events: It is used to describe recent events without a definite time. We use just in positive sentences to say that something happened very recently.

Why are they so happy?

They have just won a prize so they are really paseed

Present Perfect Tense 2- Personal experiences: It is used to express

personal experiences, there is not a definite time given. The time expressions ever and never are very often used with this meaning.

Have you ever been to Japan?

No, I never been to Japan.

Present Perfect Tense 3- It is used to express actions which started in the

past and are still continuing in the present, the time period is not finished.

I have lost my keys.

(And I haven’t found them yet.)

Present Perfect Tense We often use the present perfect tense with already and

yet.

Already: Something happened before now or earlier that expected

You can use already in positive sentences. Put already before the main verb.

Yet: until now. You can use yet in negative sentences and questions. Yet is

usually at the end. Example: A)Have you done your homework yet?

B) No, I haven’t done my homework yet.

Note the difference They have gone to the cinema. ( This means they

haven-t come back yet. They are still at the cinema)

She has been to London. (This means that she has visited London: she’s not there now. She’s come back.)

Contrast between Present Perfect and Past Simple

We use definite expressions with the Past simple tense: yesterday, last week,…ago, etc, while we don’t use definite time expressions with the Present perfect tense.

I have been to France three times.

When did you go there?

I went there last Summer

Look at this conversation:

A) Have you ever been to USA?

B) Yes, I have.

A) When did you go there?

B) I went to New York I 1996.

Now ask and answer questions as the example:

Plant a tree (Where)

Meet a politician (Who)

Present Perfect + Superlative We often use a superlative with the present perfect.

That is the smallest house I have ever seen.

Make sentences as in the example. It/ noisy city/ I be to

He/ interesting person/ meet

It/ bad book/ I/ read