Present Perfect or Past

Simple
English Language I Electrical Engineering

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Introduction
 The difference in use between the two tenses
 Effort at explaining the difference using the
current materials from media and context of
student’s everyday life

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Madonna’s given Guy 50m$ in divorce

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Shoes thrown at Bush on Iraqi trip

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Security flaw has been found in IE

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Inflation rate has fallen to 4.1%

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Topics of Discussion
 I have done or I did it
 I’ve done it. I did it yesterday.
 Structures with for, since and last time
 Exercises: A1 (two teams), A2 ( in
pairs)

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I have done/I did it
 Paul’s bought a new smartphone.
 I’m annoyed because you haven’t done your
homework.
 Matea didn’t come to the lesson last week.
 Did you see the series ‘Dr House’ the day
before yesterday?

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I have done it/I did it
 Present Perfect -the past and present. Can
you elicit the connections between the past
and the present? (Paul’s smartphone,
annoyed teacher)
 Past Simple-the past. How do we know that
the sentences refer to finished times?
(the day before yesterday, last week)

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I’ve done it. I did it yesterday
 I’ve bought a new car. I bought it last week.
 Your books have arrived. The postman
delivered them to schools.
 Present Perfect- used to give a piece of
news.
 Past Simple to give or ask details about
things such as when and where it happened.

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Past Simple and Present Perfect Tense
 Use of Present Perfect:
 talking about finished actions in a time
period continuing up to now; time
expressions today, this week, this year…)
 Experiences in our lives when we don’t say
when they happened; adverbs never, ever,
already - before the main verb, yet- in
negative sentences and questions, at the end
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Structures with for, since and last
 We haven’t had a test for ages.
 England haven’t won the World Cup since
1966.
 It’s ages since we last had a test.
 1966 was the last time E. won the World
Cup.

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Structures with for, since and last
 Present Perfect- used when we say something
hasn’t happened for a long time or since a
particular time in the past.
 Past Simple- used when we say it’s a long
time since something happened or when we
refer to the last time something happened.
 It’s a long time____ we had a party.
 We haven’t seen Robert ____ two months.
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Exercise A1 (two teams)
START BUY DO

RUN LOSE GO UP

MAKE EARN BREAK

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