Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfect Continuous

13 Novembro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár

1) Warm-up: Recycling irregular verbs. Miming game contest.

2) Grammar: pair work activity. Sts formed the rules, based on example sentences, then checked in class (with the help of PowerPoint slides.) 1) The action in the past has a result now. He has given her a kiss. Now she is pregnant/ I’ve lost my key. I can’t open the door/She has broken her arm. So she can’t help you. 2) “Have you ever” questions: experience, accomplishments Have you been to England?/Have you ever tried eating bread and butter with sugar?/Have you ever read Ulysses by James Joyce? 3) already, yet, still 4) adverbs and conjuncts: recently, lately, for, since, just, today, this month, this year, etc.

1) Duration from the past until the present I have been playing the violin for seven years./Martha has been learning English for nine years./ Peter has been working on his project since 2009/ for 10 years.

2. Emphasis is on the activity. It does not matter whether the action has been finished or not. I have been living here for eleven years. « I’ve lived here for eleven years./ I have been washing your shirts. « I have washed your shirts.

3) Grammar: pair work activity: Exercises on Present Perfect (Unit 7, 8, 9) in Raymond Murphy: Grammar in Use, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.