unit 1 3rd form

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Welcome class! 

ALL RIGHT 3RD FORM UNIT 1

Mixed Tenses

Grammar subjects:

• Present Simple
• Present Perfect
• Present Perfect Continuous

Present simple 

The present simple can be used for facts, habits and timetables:

Water boils when it reaches 100 degrees

The trains leaves from platform 6

fact

                       habit

Peter plays tennis every Friday  

                        timetable

Present simple 

Keywords:

always

often

every day

sometimes

usually

Remember the SHIT-rule?

The present simple - how do we make it?

werkwoord + s

SHE SMELLS NICE.
HE    SMELLS NICE.
IT       DOES NOT SMELL NICE.

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Make the present perfect:
(I / go / to the library today)

Make the present perfect:
(you / keep a pet for three years)

Make the present perfect:
(you / eat Thai food before?)

Make the present perfect:
(we / not / hear that song already)

When do you use a present perfect? 

- You use the present perfect if something has started in the past but is still going on in the present..

I have lived in Groningen since 1998 (so you still live there)

-To talk about experiences or events of which the result is still noticeable.

I can't find my keys. I have lost them. 

Look! She has broken her leg.

So far, I haven’t heard from him.

I have never been to London.

KEYWORDS PRESENT PERFECT - FIJNE JAS!

If these words are in a sentence you have to use the present perfect

• F   for  (+ time reference)
• Y   yet
• N   never 
• E   ever 

• J   just 
• A   already
• S   since 

Present Perfect Continuous

1. Something happened in the past and is still relevant for now + you want to emphasis the duration of it (the activity).

We have been playing tennis for over three hours and I'm still not tired. 

Present Perfect Continuous

Have / Has + past participle + ing-form verb

I have been waiting for over two hours! 

He has been trying for a while. 

Present Perfect Continuous

Examples: 

I have been studying for geography for four hours. 

He has been trying to reach him for weeks now. 

Timeline

Present Perfect Continuous

2. Emphasize that something was going on and has just ended.

She has been crying for hours; her eyes are still red.

I have been running. I’m exhausted.

Fill in the Present Perfect Continuous:
1. Why are you tired?
I ______ a long city tour with 25 tourists. (to conduct)

2. What’s wrong with Joyce and Andrew?
They ___ after two escaped dogs since 2 o’clock.
(to run)

3. Janice is walking in a strange way, isn’t she?
She _____ problems with her left leg lately. (to have)

Write 3 things you have learnt this lesson

What do you still find difficult about these 3 tensens?