The present perfect simple = have / has + the past participle. For regular verbs, the past participle normally stays the same as the past simple. For example, play / played / ____. With irregular verbs, the past participle changes. For example - eat / ate / ____. Use 'have' + past participle when the subject is 'I', 'you', 'we' and 'they'. For example, 'I ____ eaten a lot of tacos today!' Use 'has' + past participle when the subject is ____. For example, 'He ____ watched that movie'. For negative sentences, use 'haven't' for ____. For example, 'We ____ eaten in that restaurant.' 'You haven't ____ any water today.' Use 'hasn't' for 'he', 'she', and 'it'. For example, 'He ____ played a tennis match this year.' 'The computer hasn't ____ all week.' To make questions, we change the position of the subject and have or has. For example, '____ she played golf?' '____ ____ drunk orange juice?' There are many uses of the present perfect. One use is when we talk about past actions without saying when the action happened. For example, 'I have ____ to Brazil.' This action happened in the past but I don't say ____. The present perfect connects actions that started in the past and continue to happen now. For example, 'I ____ been a teacher for thirteen years' (I am still a teacher now). 'My Dad ____ played golf since he moved to the U.K.' (he still plays golf now). For more information, check the 'Perfect Simple Tenses - timelines' activity. Use 'for' and 'since' to connect the past to the present. Use 'for' when we say the duration of an activity. For example, 'I have lived in Mexico ____ 7 years'. We use 'since' when we say when an action began. For example, 'She has lived in London ____ 2008'. For more information see the activity called 'For and Since' with present perfect'. Use the present perfect simple to emphasize the ____ of activity. We ____ the homework. She ____ over two hours of exercise. We use 'never' with present perfect to talk about actions that ____ in our lives. For example, 'I have ____ been to Japan.' Use the present perfect simple with unfinished time references. Examples of unfinished time references are; today, this week, this month, this year. For example, 'I ____ eaten two bananas ____. 'She ____ gone to the gym three times this ____. Use present perfect with words like 'already' and 'yet'. For example, 'I ____ already completed my work.' 'It ____ saved my work ____.' Use the present perfect simple for recently happened actions. For example, 'She ____ just finished her homework'. They ____ just watched a movie. 'Just' means '____'. We have a lot of contractions with the present perfect simple. Contractions are when we join two words together to make one sound or word. For example, I + have = ____ (I've been to Brazil). You + have = ____ (you've just arrived). He + has = ____ (He's already seen that movie). We + have = ____ (We've eaten a lot of food today) They = have = ____ (They've worked as nurses for ten years). Try these activities. They ____ ____ in Portugal ____ three years. They ____ ____ golf ____ 1996. We ____ just ____ the car. Which countries ____ Laura ____ to this year? We____ ____ ____ two hours! They ____ just ____ home. The building ____ ____ Jane ____ ____ the piano ____ Christmas. You ____ ____ to Dubai many times on business trips. What ____ you ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ coffee this morning? We ____ ____ together ____ five years. I ____ ____ ____ the Giza pyramids.

Present Perfect Simple: Explained

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