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Many ESL teachers spend a significant amount of time covering the present perfect tense with their students so with 113 worksheets, this page is a valuable resource especially when you run out of ideas. The downloadable file posted here actually consists of several different worksheets and an audio file. It is enormously popular with the busy teachers who have been successful in unzipping the file. Even without answer keys, it can save you a lot of time. For the less computer-savvy, there is this Present Perfect worksheet for intermediate learners. It contains a number of activities, an explanation of the present perfect tense, an explanation of how this tense is different from the past simple tense, and an answer key. Use all or part of this material in your lessons; you can easily edit the worksheet to suit your students’ needs. Remember that this is just one of the sections about tenses so when you move on to the next tense or want to review several tenses in one lesson, be sure to come back and check out the worksheets available in other sections.
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GRAMMAR TIP: What Is Present Perfect?
The present perfect is a grammatical combination of the present tense and the perfect aspect, used to express a past event that has present consequences. An example is "I have eaten" (so I'm not hungry). Depending on the specific language, the events described by present perfects are not necessarily completed, as in "I have been eating" or "I have lived here for five years." The present perfect is a compound tense in English, as in many other languages, meaning that it is formed by combining an auxiliary verb with the main verb. For example, in modern English, it is formed by combining a present-tense form of the auxiliary verb "to have" with the past participle of the main verb. In the above example, "have" is the auxiliary verb, where as the past participle "eaten" is the main verb. The two verbs are sometimes labeled "V1" and "V2" in grammar instruction. In modern English, the auxiliary verb for forming the present perfect is always to have.
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Let's Talk About... Life Experiences Let's Talk About... Life ExperiencesThe aim of this exercise is to ask and answer questions using present perfect tense. The students have to choose the correct form of the verb and ask the questions and complete with their own and ...
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Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Present Perfect Questionnaire Present Perfect QuestionnaireThe activity is aimed at practising questions related to personal experience in Present Perfect in a form of a communicative activity. Each student in the group receives a questionnaire. All she/h ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate
 
Present Perfect Passive Present Perfect PassiveHere's an exercise to drill present perfect passive (paraphrase the sentences, using present perfect passive).
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Intermediate
 
Michael Schumacher: the 'Red Baron' [Test on Past Simple, Past Continuous and Present Perfect] Michael Schumacher: the 'Red Baron' [Test on Past Simple, Past Continuous and Present Perfect]This worksheet is a test in which you have a reading comprehension activity, use of english and writing, where students have to use the three tenses, past simple, past continuous and present perfe ...
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Intermediate
 
Have You Ever? Present Perfect With Pictures Have You Ever? Present Perfect With PicturesThis presentation is suitable for beginner level students. The collection of strange photographs will make it easy to introduce "Have you ever...?" questions and the reply "I have never...." Each ...
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rated by 20 teachers

Complete Beginner Elementary
 
Present Perfect Worksheet Present Perfect WorksheetAfter introducing a new tense it is only natural to start with form practice. Therefore I have created this worksheet for practising Present Perfect Tense. It includes both regular and irregular v ...
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Pre-Intermediate
 
Present Perfect Simple Worksheet Present Perfect Simple WorksheetThis is a worksheet for teaching the present perfect simple.There are simple explanations and example sentences followed by 3 different activities in which students are asked to complete sentences ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Regular Or Irregular? Actions Verbs Worksheet Regular Or Irregular? Actions Verbs WorksheetThis worksheet contains some action verbs and pictures. Students are required to label the picture with the appropriate verb and say whether the verb is regular or irregular. Teachers can use this ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate
 
Irregular Verbs Mnemonic Rhyming Groups Irregular Verbs Mnemonic Rhyming GroupsIRREGULAR VERBS: A REFERENCE LIST Mnemonic Rhyming Groups By: Hani Al TahrawiLearning can be fun with Mnemonics! When we were kids, rhyming songs and phrases were some of the gimmicks us ...
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All levels
 
Irregular Verbs: Memory Card Game Irregular Verbs: Memory Card GameThe aim of this game is to memorize 42 irregular verbs in an entertaining way. The winner is the player who can make as many families as possible. Can be played by groups from 2 to 8 players. Befo ...
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rated by 21 teachers

Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Postcard From England: Reading Worksheet Postcard From England: Reading WorksheetA reading comprehension worksheet for ESL and EFL students suitable for pre-intermediate to intermediate levels, this test deals with travel experiences. The students are to answer some comprehens ...
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rated by 6 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Present Perfect: Usage and Exercises Present Perfect: Usage and ExercisesThanks for your worksheets. I will try to help with mine!My worksheet shows how the tense present perfect should be used in the English Grammar. It also has a good exercise to let the students pra ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Just or Already? Just or Already?This is a set of cards to practice the clarify and practice the use of JUST and ALREADY with the Present Perfect. The cards include a short conversation each with gaps for students to decide where ...
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Pre-Intermediate
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