Present Perfect vs Past Simple | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

Say Past Simple or Present Perfect: With a finished time word (last week, last month, yesterday):

Past Simple

Say PAST SIMPLE OR PRESENT PERFECT: life experience

Present perfect

Say PAST SIMPLE OR PRESENT PERFECT: Unfinished actions that started in the past and continue to the present:

Present Perfect

Say PAST SIMPLE OR PRESENT PERFECT: Finished actions

PAST SIMPLE

Complete the sentence: _____ you ever _____ (be) to a professional football game?

Have you ever..?

Comlete the sentence: The students ____ (have) eight exams this month. [The month hasn't ended yet.]

have had

Complete the sentence: The students ____ (have) eight exams last month.

had

Complete the sentence: Tom ____ (see) that movie three times already.

has seen

Complete the sentence: We ____ (go) to the movies last night.

went

What is the odd one? They have seen a movie yesterday .

Yesterday

Say TWO key words that usually appear in present perfect

already, just, yet. ever, never, today

Say the odd one word, why is that uncorrect: I have visited my parents yesterday

Yesterday/ have

Say TRUE OR FALSE: present perfect is formed subject+ have + past participle

True

Explain the form of past simple NEGATIVE

We form using didn´t and the verb, same for regular and irregular

Explain the form of the past simple AFFIRMATIVE: subject+ verb in....

We form the past simple with regular verbs ending in -ed and irregular verbs.

Tell 1 use of present perfect

something happened in the past but we don´t know when

Tell 1 use of present perfect

To talk about unfinished actions

Say two key words of past simple tense

Yesterday, last, years ago

Say TRUE OR FALSE: you use past simple when you know WHEN the action happens

It´s true, we know the exact point when it happened , in 2011, yesterday

Tell me 1 use of past simple

We use past simple to express finished time.