Unit 1

How do you manage stress?

Have you ever experienced a

stressful situation?

When? What happened?

Video

Managing

stress by BBC

Present Perfect

The present perfect is used to talk

about if, at any point in your life in

the past, you have visited or traveled

to a specific place.

It is used to talk about if you did

something!

Have you ever been to Rome, Italy?

Present perfect

We use the Present Perfect to say that an action

happened at an unspecified time before now.

The exact time is not important.

ever, never, once,

many times, several

times, before, so far,

already, yet,

yesterday, one year ago, last week,

when I was a child, when I lived in

Japan, at that moment, that day, one

day,

specific unspecific

Correct answers

Incorrect answers

Structure

The present perfect is formed from the

present tense of the verb have and the past

participle of a verb:

I have eaten salmon sushi.

Subject Have

Has

V. Past

Participle Complement

Structure

I haven’t eaten salmon sushi.

Subject Have

Has

V. Past

Participle Complement

She hasn’t eaten salmon sushi.

Haven’t = Have not

Hasn’t = Has not

Structure for Questions

you Have eaten salmon sushi?

Subject Have

Has

V. Past

Participle Complement

ever

ever

he Has eaten salmon sushi? ever

Verbs 1. Eat Ate Eaten

2. Drink Drank Drunk

3. Have Had Had

4. Go Went Gone

5. Do Did Done

6. Drive Drove Driven

7. Ride Rode Ridden

8. Take Took Taken

9. Be Was/Were Been

10. Hear Heard Heard

11. Speak Spoke Spoken

Simple Past Present Perfect

Simple Present Simple Past Past Participle

Verbs 1. Eat Ate Eaten

2. Drink Drank Drunk

3. Have Had Had

4. Go Went Gone

5. Do Did Done

6. Drive Drove Driven

7. Ride Rode Ridden

8. Take Took Taken

9. Be Was/Were Been

10. Hear Heard Heard

11. Speak Spoke Spoken

Simple Present Simple Past Past Participle

Structure

I / You / We

/ They

He / She /

It

Positive

I have

spoken.

He has

spoken.

Negative

I have not

spoken.

He has not

spoken.

Question

Have I

spoken?

Has he

spoken?

Examples

I have lost my key.

I have never been to Australia.

I have seen that movie twenty times.

I think I have met him once before.

There have been many earthquakes in

California.

People have traveled to the Moon.

People have not traveled to Mars.

Have you read the book yet?

Conversation

1. Have you ever heard hip-hop music?

2. Have you ever visited Cancún?

3. Have you ever eaten rotten cheese?

4. Have you ever been in an awkward

situation?

5. Have you ever found money on the street?

6. Have you ever watched a horror movie

alone at home?

7. Have you ever seen a ghost?

you ever been to Australia

Have you ever flown in a helicopter?

Have you ever eaten Chinese food?

Have you ever been in London?

Have you ever driven a bus?

She hasn’t been in Australia. /She has never been in Australia.

She has eaten Chinese food.

She hasn’t driven a bus. / She has never driven a bus.

Have you ever lost your passport?

PP with for and since

examples

since

for

for

since

Past Participles

Present Simple Past Past participle

Talk Talked Talked

Have Had Had

Run Ran Run

Hear Heard Heard

Speak Spoke Spoken

See Saw Seen

Notes

Ever is not used in present perfect

statements.

It is only used in questions with the present

perfect.

Of course, there is an exception to this.

When you make a superlative statement, for

example when you want to say that

something is the best, you can use ever.

“Tokyo is the most beautiful city I’ve ever been to in the world!

Be

It is common in English to use the

verb be when you talk about places

you have visited. Don’t use visit. This

sounds formal and unnatural.

Have you

visited

Canada?

To

Prepositions don’t translate between

languages. In English, you must use the

preposition to when you talk about places

you have visited.

This may be different from the preposition

you use in your language.

That’s OK! You just need to remember to

use to in English!

I’ve been to Australia.

She’s been to 45 out of the

50 states in America

Past Simple

Use the past simple verb tense to talk

about when you visited a place.

Have you ever been to Rome?

– Yes, I’ve been to Rome! I went to Rome in

2005 because I was visiting my grandma.

Exercises

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Let’s recap

What have you learned today?