Transcript Present Perfect (For or Since)

Present Perfect
(For or Since)
Present Perfect
Present Perfect describes an action that happened at an
indefinite time in the past or that began in the past and
continues in the present. This tense is formed by using
Have/Has with the past participle of the verb. Most past
participles end in –ed. Irregular verbs have special past
participles that must be memorized.
+ I have been to America.
I have not been to America.
? Have I been to America?
For or Since
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We use For with a period of time, for
example: a few days, half an hour, two
years.
We use Since with the time when the
action started, for example: last year
June 8, I met you
Exercise№1. Use For or Since with the
following phrases.
Exercise №1. Decide if you need for or since
with these time expressions
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____last weekend
____ten seconds
____Christmas
____I finished school
____a couple of days
____ my birthday
____a long time
____five years
____the 70s
____I was a boy
____August
____last month
____5 o’clock
____then
____six hours
____we bought this house
____last week
____Monday
____I met you
____ages
Exercise №2 Complete the sentences
with For or Since
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Mr. and Mrs. Nelson have lived in this house ______June.
They have been there _____five months.
Carmen has been a nurse at the local hospital _____a few weeks.
She has worked there ____ 15 years.
Leo hasn’t worked _____1997.
Peter has been my nest friend _____we were nine.
Carl has felt ill _____Sunday.
He has been in bed ______three days.
Pam has played the violin at school ____two years.
Jack has been a doctor at this hospital _____ he graduated the
university.
He has taken a summer off and worked on a fishing boat ______
a few months.
He hasn’t worked on a boat _______ then.
I haven’t been to the cinema ______ages.
Exercise №3 Put the verb in the
Present Perfect and use with
or Since.
For
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I (be)___ to New York city ____September.
Kate (learn)____ an English poem ___ 2 days.
They (live) ___in the Moon Street ____ten years?
You (phone, not) ____ home ____Christmas.
John (be)_____ to England ____more than two weeks
now.
Donna (study)_____ at the university ____January?
Professor Miller (teach)_____ English ____1995.
My car (run, not)_______ well _____I drove.
Ted and Jane (be)_______ together ____they met in
high school.
I (visit, not)______ my home town_____ages.
You (write)_______ a composition ____five hours?
Your dog (bark) _____you left this morning.
Exercise №4. Ask your friend following
the example.
Example:
Student A: How long have you been to
London?
Student B: I have been to London for 2
years.
cook
Play
read
sweep
swim
work on the
computer
Two hours
July
The whole
evening
5 o’clock
September
A few days
sleep
Listen to
music
Play the
guitar
Wait for a
bus
Save
money
Drive a
car
Collect
stamps
The
whole
night
5 minutes
1997
9 o’clock
A long
time
I bought it
6 years
Test