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Many ESL teachers spend a significant amount of time covering the present perfect tense with their students so with 127 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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Mixed Verb Tenses and Vocabulary: Elementary Worksheet Mixed Verb Tenses and Vocabulary: Elementary WorksheetIt's a worksheet that I prepared for my A1 level preparatory school students. I used it during my revision week before the final exam. There are mixed verb tense and target vocabulary exercises in ...
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Elementary
 
Present Perfect Mingle: Find Someone Who Present Perfect Mingle: Find Someone WhoI used this worksheet as warmer after the lesson in which we systematised and practised the Present Perfect. I used it with an adult class, but as it is so short, it can be easily adapted to ...
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Pre-Intermediate
 
Have You Ever...? Present Perfect Conversation Questions Have You Ever...? Present Perfect Conversation QuestionsThis is a very easy worksheet which can be used in several ways.I usually give a copy of the worksheet to each student (if the level is low, a translation session will be of help), then I let them ...
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Elementary Pre-Intermediate
 
Song Worksheet: We Are The Champions by Queen Song Worksheet: We Are The Champions by QueenThis worksheet is intended for Elementary Second Language Students learning Present Perfect Simple. It is a fill in the gaps activity about Present Perfect Simple form. You can also deal with the ...
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Elementary
 
Have You Ever: Drill to Teach Present Perfect Have You Ever: Drill to Teach Present PerfectThis presentation can be used in different ways:1. As a drill to present present perfect with recently, ever, just...2. As prompts to practise present perfect and promote speaking production.3. A ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Present Perfect Simple vs Present Perfect Continuous Present Perfect Simple vs Present Perfect ContinuousA worksheet contrasting the present perfect simple and the present perfect continuous tense.There are clear explanations and example sentences followed by 2 activities in which students are asked ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Song Worksheet: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2 Song Worksheet: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For by U2U2´s song 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'. It is a great song for practicing Present Perfect and the expression 'looking for...'. It is a well known song, too, and the students ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Present Perfect Practice Present Perfect Practice6 different exercises to practise present perfect structures. The studnets have to: 1) put the verbs in the correct present perfect from; 2) make sentences adding the necessary words; 3) comple ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Irregular Verbs: Patterns Of Formation 3 (with exercises) Irregular Verbs: Patterns Of Formation 3 (with exercises)This is the third worksheet related to the patterns of formation of irregular verbs. The pattern in focus is [i:]-[æ]-[Λ]. There are six verbs with this pattern: drink, begin, ring, s ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Present Perfect Simple vs Present Perfect Progressive Present Perfect Simple vs Present Perfect ProgressiveThis worksheet is a gap filling exercise. It consists of 11 sentences and a close test which require students to write the correct form of the verbs in brackets. amost all the sentences include ke ...
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Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Present Perfect Worksheet Present Perfect WorksheetI created this material for my intermediate students who have already studied present perfect to revise and summarise the information about the situations when this tense is used. In the first tab ...
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