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Present Perfect Continuous Questions. Practice exercises about how to use the present perfect and the present perfect continuous: Choose the Past Simple or Present Perfect Exercise 1. Choose the Past Simple or Present Perfect Exercise 2. Choose the Past Simple or Present Perfect Exercise 3. Choose the Past Simple or Present Perfect Exercise 4.
- Present Perfect Positive
Practise making the positive form of the present perfect...
- Present Perfect Exercise 4
This free interactive exercise is to practise making all...
- Present Perfect Continuous Questions
Present Perfect Continuous Questions. This time you need to...
- If You Need to Review How to Make The Present Perfect, Click Here
How to form the present perfect. Click here to download this...
- Present Perfect Positive
- Find Somebody Who..
- Spot The Difference
- Liar Game
- Have You Ever…?
- I Have Not…
- Present Perfect Quiz
Top of our list of present perfect games and activities is the classic ESL activity ‘Find Somebody Who..’. Find somebody who is a great speaking activity to practice the present perfect tense as it encourages learners to speak using present perfect questions, affirmative answers, and negative answers. To play this game, download and print this pres...
This next game is a fun way to elicit present perfect sentences from students. Ask students to close their eyes or look away. Then, move or change something in the classroom. Next, tell students to open their eyes and ask them “What have I changed / moved?”. Students should try to guess what has changed in the classroom while making a present perfe...
This next present perfect activity requires no prep and is super fun. Ask students to think of one truth and one lie about something they have done. Then invite students up to the front of the class to tell their two things using the present perfect tense. The other students in class must try to guess which sentence is true and which one is false. ...
Once students are familiar with how to make present perfect sentences and questions, this game is a great way to practice expanding these sentences. To play this game, ask one student to make a present perfect question. For example, “Have you ever watched TV?”. Then, the next student should make this question longer, e.g. “Have you ever watched TV ...
This next game is really fun and a great way to get your students moving around while practicing negative present perfect sentences. To begin, arrange the classroom chairs in a circle. Ensure there are enough chairs for all but one of your students. Now the game can begin. One student should stand in the middle and the other students should sit on ...
This present perfect tense activity is a fun quiz to review the present perfect tense. There are ten questions and each question asks students to choose ‘have’ or ‘has’ to complete the sentences.
One student picks a card and reads the sentence aloud, omitting the past participle verb. Other students take turns guessing the missing word to complete the sentence correctly. This activity reinforces sentence structure and encourages students to think critically about the present perfect tense.
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A. Introduction. The present perfect tense is very common in English. It is unlike other verb tenses because it has two separate uses. One use is a finished past action and the other is a continuing action. Time markers (words that show a verb’s tense) show if the verb has a finished or continuing meaning. Let’s look at the finished action ...
I (read) the book. They (not/answer) my question. He (not/speak) Spanish for years. She (finish) her food. Complete the questions with the present perfect simple. (you/ever/visit) England? (she/call) yet? (the kids/do) their homework yet? How long (you/be) here? How many letters (he/write) ? Check exercise. Show all exercises for this topic.
Present perfect 1. Present perfect 2. for something that happened in the past but is important in the present: I can't get in the house. I've lost my keys. Teresa isn't at home. I think she has gone shopping. Present perfect 3. Present perfect 4. have been and have gone. We use have/has been when someone has gone to a place and returned:
With these exercises you can quickly revise the present perfect tense, how to form it with regular and irregular verbs, the auxiliary verb have/has, how to make affirmative, negative and question sentences, signal words of the present perfect.
