Language: present perfect + ex

 

Language/present perfect 

 

Let’s check you remember

 

 1.The situation has not improved.

 

2.They left the EU.

 

1)    Explain why the verbs are different in 1 and 2.

2)    Explain the different reasons why you can use the present perfect.

 

3)    Compare :

   a) I have been here  since 2006.

   b) I have been here  for 17 years.

 

Þ Translate. Which tense do you use in French? Why?

 

Þ What is the difference between for and since ?

 

Present perfect/ exercises

 

A)    Þ for or since?

 

my birthday                          I went to the Netherlands                   March 10^th

 

last summer                a year                 an hour            five days  

 

       October              the beginning of the month            two weeks                     1984

 

 

B)    Put the verbs in the present perfect or the past and write correct sentences :

 

1)    (she / meet / already) the minister? ____________________________________

 

2)    He (arrive/ just) . _____________________________________That is why she (not/ see) him yet._____________________________________________

 

3)    ‘’(you/ be/ ever) to Amsterdam?’’_________________________________

‘’No I (have/ travel/ never) ‘’.________________________________________

 

She’s not here. she ______________________(just / leave).

 

4)    I (do/ already) my exercise.________________________________________

 

5)    She ____________________________  (feel) so happy when she _______________(learn) she would spend a gap year there. !

 

6)    She (read) __________________ articles about the queen when she (be) __________ young.

7)    Teenagers (always like)__________________ shopping in this city.

8)    I ____________________(not /visit) Denmark with my friends last year.

9)    She is not here. She (go) ___________________to Belgium .

 

C)   Complete with for or since :

 

1)    I haven’t been to  England ________________ ages! In fact I haven’t been there __________________ I was five !

2)    He has been working here  ________________ last year.

3)    I have been learning English  _____________ seven years.

4)    This teen has been living in Belgium________ years.

5)    They  have been doing their homework___________ they came back home.

 

D)   Translate:

1)    C’est la première que je vois ça !

2)    Je ne peux pas vous la passer; elle est partie à Dordrecht !

3)    Depuis combien de temps travailles-tu ici ?

4)    Je viens de finir mon roman.