Present perfect Vs Simple past

Instituto de Idiomas UNL

Unit 2.2

Born to sing

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Let´s give a look to what we are learning in this unit

• Grammar: Present perfect vs. Past simple tense
• Vocabulary: biographies
• Reading: Bob Marley and Ziggy Marley

Reading

Let´s read page 72 and page 73

• Look at the photos of Bob and Ziggy Marley and read the introduction. Have you heard their music? Do you like it?

• Read ten facts about the live of the two men. Decide which five a re about Bob Marley (BM) and which five are about Z iggy Marley (ZM).

Present Perfect vs Past simple

When using it? The present perfect is used to indicate a link between the present and the past. The time of the action is before now but not specified, and we are often more interested in the result than in the action itself

The simple past

The past simple actions and events in the past that now are finished. My favorite subject in school was English.

Clue words/pistas

Existen palabras o expresiones de tiempo que se puede utilizar solo en el pasado o solo en el presente There are time words or expressions that can be used only for past

We went to the beach last summer They started dating 2 years ago

I have never seen Avatar I have work here since 2002

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Exercise to practice

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From the web

• Use of for and since

http://languagelearningbase.com/87438/for-and-since-with-present-perfect-tense

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUsVv7OMhSw
• https://www.ef.com.ec/recursos-aprender-ingles/gramatica-inglesa/present-perfect-con-for-since/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppFv1hlMHjI

Actions started in the past and continuing in the present

(Acciones que empezaron en el pasado y aún continuan en el presente

• They haven't lived here for years.
• She has worked in the bank for five years.
• We have had the same car for ten years.
• Have you played the piano since you were a child?

Actions repeated in an unspecified period between the past and now.

Accciones que sucedieron en un pundo inexacto entre el pasado y el presente

• They have seen that film six times
• It has happened several times already.
• She has visited them frequently.
• We have eaten at that restaurant many times.