Help Conserve Wildlife - Grammar Part 2

                                                             Present Perfect

 

Ann is looking for the recycling plant key. She can´t find it.                 à She has lost her key. It means that she lost it a short time ago and she still hasn’t got it.   This is the present perfect tense: I/we/they/you    have (=I´ve)            lost He/she                  has (=she´s)   I haven´t lost….                                  Have you lost….? She hasn’t lost…                                 Has she lost….?

 

     a)       Read this example

We form the present perfect with have/has + past participle. The past participle often ends in

-ed (opened, decided) but many importants verbs are irregular (lost, written, done, etc). See appendix

 

WE USE PRESENT PERFECT:

b)      When there is a connection with the present:

-                     I´ve lost my recycling plant key. (= I haven´t got it now.)

-                     Jim has gone to the forest. (=He is in the forest or on his way there now).

-                     Have you watered the plants? (= Are they watered now?)

 

c)       To give new information or to announce a recent happening:

-                     I´ve lost my recycling plant key. Can you help me look for it?

-                     Do you know about Jim? He´s gone to the forest.

-                     Ow! I´ve burnt myself.

Use present perfect with just (= a short time ago):

-                     Would you like something to eat?          No, Thanks. I´ve just arrived from the party.

-                     Hello, have you just arrived?

Use present perfect with already to say something has happened sooner than expected

-                     Don´t forget to feed the cat.                                                                I´ve already fed it!

-                     When is Tom going to start his job at the recycling plant?            He has already started.

 

 

d)      Check the difference between gone to and been to:

-                     Ann is on holiday. She has gone to Italy. (=She is there now or she is on her way there.)

-                     Tom is back in England now. He has been to Italy. (= He was there but now he has come back.)

1.       Read again the text (Grammar Part 1) and select some verbs to put in present perfect.

 

 

2.       Circle the best tense in the sentences below (Choose past simple or present perfect

 

1. Two days ago, I have seen/saw a large group of people

 

2. They have looked/looked very worried.

3. A woman has been/was on the roof of a tall building.

4. Everybody has thought/thought she was going to kill herself, but she was rescuing her cat.

5. The newspapers say there have been/were a lot of suicides recently in the city.

6. After a few minutes, two helicopters have arrived/arrived.

7. When she saw the helicopters, the woman jumped/was jumping with the cat.

8. We could see that the woman has smiled/was smiling.

9. Everyone has cheered/cheered when she landed safely with the cat.

10. Since then, I have thought/thought about how much people love their pets.

 

 

 

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