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Present Perfect Verbs

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DEFINITION: The Present Perfect Verb (PPV) is composed of two elements:

  1. The appropriate form of the helping verb 'to have'.
  2. The Past Participle of the main verb.  The Past Participle of a regular verb is "verb+ed": played, looked, watched, etc.  NOTE: be careful of irregular verbs because when they switch to the past participle the entire verb changes: drink-->drunk / sleep-->slept / rise-->risen.

 

The PPV is used to indicate a link between the present and the past. It is used to describe:

  1. An action or situation that started in the past and continues in the present: I have played the piano since I was a child. (...and I still do.)
  2. An action performed during a period that has not yet finished: I have worked hard this week. (...and the week isn't over yet.)
  3. A repeated action in an unspecified period between the past and now: I have lived in Japan for five years.
  4. An action that was completed in the very recent past, expressed by "just": I have just finished my work.
  5. An action when the time is not important: She has studied Japanese, English and Chinese. (...the result of his reading is important)

　(ANOTHER DEFINITION)

Fun Fact: "There are about 189 irregular verbs in the English language."

Students ask the ALT questions to try and get a Bingo or Bongo.
 
Students ask present perfect questions to find out their partner's seceret character.
 
Students ask each other questions about whether they've been to various locations.
 
Students act out an action and guess what the action is. Then they write a report on who has done what.
 
Students play bingo using the grammar, 'Have you ever ~ ?'
 
Students develop their own skit, practicing the grammar and situation of having a guest.
  
Students play Bingo but instead of a teacher reading out numbers, the students ask each other, "How long have you...?" The answer is the number they must circle.
This three-step activity ranges from fill-in-the-blank of Brandy’s Have You Ever?, forming past participle questions to ask other students and finishes with the students asking both teachers strategic questions to illicit specific questions.
 
A game to get the students to practice the four parts of learning while trying to find who kidnapped Miki Ando.
 
Students translate Perfect Present sentences from Japanese to English in order to solve the mystery of who kidnapped Miki Ando.
 
Students work in groups to formulate sentences about a series of pictures.
 
This game can be adapted for any grammar point. It encourages students to create, and say aloud a particular grammar point repeatedly.
 
Students practice the four parts of learning by listening to an excerpt from their textbook and filling out the worksheet. If you don’t use New Horizon, don’t worry – see the Tips and Cautions section.
 
Students race to collect the lyrics around the room, then try to order the song lyrics.

This activity is based upon the Ramone's song, Have you ever seen the rain?

 

T/F Betting

Students create three sentences using Present Perfect Verbs, one of which is false. Classmates win bets if they guess the one that is false.

 

Tic-Tac Bingo

Students practice listening to present perfect sentences while playing bingo according to questions the ALT/JTE ask.

 

Who Is It

This is a guess who-it-is game to practise present perfect verbs.

 

You Decide T/F

The ALT reads four sentences and the students have to decide which sentence is false. In groups the students write their own sentences with one student writing a false sentence. The other students have to find the liar.

 

 Worksheets w/out Explanations

P.P. Bingo

P.P. Comics

Have You Ever Played Bingo

Have Ever Biographed Connect 4 PP

 

 

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