past simple present perfect

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Present perfect & Past simple

This is how you make a present perfect: 

have / has + past participle 

How do you make a past participle?

● regular verb: infinitive + ed → to work → he has worked

● irregular verb: 3rd form → to go - went - gone → he has gone 

This is how you make a past simple

Affirmative: verb + ed / 2nd form

Negative: didn’t + verb

Question: Did + verb

you use the present perfect:

* when something happened in the past and it’s not important when it happened

* when something started in the past and is still continuing

* when something happened in the past and you can still see the result

* when something has just happened or is about to happen

You use the past simple when something happened in the past at a specific time.

When the first word of a question is: WHEN

What do we look at first to choose from present perfect & past simple?

present perfect

FYNE JAS BAS RUS

(For, Yet, Never, Ever)(Just, Already, Since)(Before, Always, So far) (Recently, Until, Still)

past simple

last night, yesterday, in 1969, this morning, five minutes ago, when I was young

Yet

1. Past simple
2. Present perfect

Yesterday

1. Past Simple
2. Present Perfect

Two days ago

1. Past simple
2. Present perfect

For 5 years

1. Past simple
2. Present perfect

Never

1. Past Simple
2. Present perfect

A year ago

1. Past simple
2. Present Perfect

Always

1. Past simple
2. Present perfect

For

1. Past simple
2. Present perfect

in 2011

1. Past simple
2. Present perfect

past simple or present perfect?
Mary won the lottery last year.

1. past simple
2. present perfect

I have known him all my life.

1. past simple
2. Present perfect

Last night I
(lose) my keys

1. lost
2. have lost

Amy
(live) in Portugal when she was young.

1. lived
2. has lived

She
(visit) her grandmother for an hour.

1. visited
2. has visited

I (live) in Utrecht for 8 years now.

1. lived
2. have lived

I
(never/go) to Vienna.

My great great grandfather
(have) five sisters.

He
(live) in Manila for a year.

He
(be) here all morning. It is now two o'clock in the afternoon.

I
(always want) to taste champagne.

I
(not/drink) any coffee yesterday.

What subject
(she/study) at university?

How long
(you/know) Susie for?

She
(come) to London in 1997.

I (be) here since coffee time.

I (done) my homework. Here it is.

They (sell) their car in 2009.

I (finish) my book yet.

She (break) her leg. That's why her leg is in plaster.

They (give) me a really good idea yesterday.

He (tell) us the story last week.

I (work) here for three years.

(you + think + ever) of becoming a teacher?

We (leave) our house half an hour ago.

(they + join + just) the chess club?

(you + see) him last summer?

(you + travel + ever) to Italy?

I (play) the piano when I was young.