Present perfect (for and since) & past simple

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

How do we make a present perfect?

How do we make a past simple?

Lesson goals 

After today's lesson I... 

- know when to use the present perfect or past simple 

- have recapped the signal words fitting the present perfect & past simple 

Pick the correct answer
I ______ (live) there since 1997.

1. lived
2. live
3. have lived
4. am living

Give the correct answer
They _______ (own) this restaurant for two years.

Signal words present perfect 

ever, never, since, already, yet, just, recently, so far, for. 

Use for with: a week/a month/a year/ ages etc. 

Use since with: 2012/March/last Tuesday/the day we met 

Give the correct answer
I _______ (not leave) him since the day we met.

Give the correct answer
They _____ (know) their best friends for years.

Past simple & present perfect  

Past simple 

Use the past simple to reference to a specific time in the past/when something happened in the past and is finished. 

Present perfect 

Use the present perfect to talk about life experiences up to now. 

Pick the correct answer
I ______ (go) to the cinema last weekend.

1. go
2. goes
3. went
4. have gone

Give the correct answer
I _______ (go) to the cinema before. It's really nice.

Homework 

Book page 38 

Exercises 2 (alone), 4, 6

Learn irregular verbs until read (page 127, left to right)