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This document is a lesson on the Present Perfect tense in English, detailing its uses, forms, and examples. It includes exercises for practice and emphasizes the writing process through steps like pre-writing, drafting, revising, and editing. The lesson is structured for English learners at the BAC level.

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62fde940b2ebd - Lesson 5 - Present Perfect

This document is a lesson on the Present Perfect tense in English, detailing its uses, forms, and examples. It includes exercises for practice and emphasizes the writing process through steps like pre-writing, drafting, revising, and editing. The lesson is structured for English learners at the BAC level.

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ENGLISH

Class: BAC
Lesson 5: The Present Perfect

Teacher : Sahar Ateb


Sousse (Khezama - Sahloul) Nabeul / Sfax / Bardo / Menzah El
Aouina / Ezzahra / CUN / Bizerte / Gafsa / Kairouan / Medenine /
Kébili / Monastir / Gabes / Djerba

www.takiacademy.com 73.832.000
English

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The Present Perfect


The Uses of the Present Perfect:
✓ Action (single or repeated) that happened at some unknown time in the past.

✓ Action which happened in the past but has an effect in the present.

✓ Action that started in the past and is still continuing until now.

✓ A recently finished action.

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The form of the Present Perfect:


The present perfect consists of the present tense of the auxiliary verb to have + a
past participle.
I
We
You
They
He
She
It

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The negative form of the Present Perfect:

The present perfect, in its negative form, has this structure:

Subject + have/has + not + past participle + …

Exp: He has done his homework.

Negative Sentence: ___________________________________________

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The interrogative form of the Present Perfect:

Have/Has + Subject + Past participle + …?

WH- Word + Have/Has + Subject + Past participle + …?

Exp: Tania has left the country on a mission.

Yes/ No question: ___________________________________________

WH-question: ___________________________________________

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Signal words:

• Just

• Already

• Yet

• For

• Since

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Exercise 1:
Put the verbs between parentheses in the present perfect tense.
• She _________________ (keep) a pet for three years.

• _________________ (You/eat) Thai food before?

• We ________________________ (not/hear) that song yet.

• Richard ___________________ (forget) his books.

• I ____________________ (know) him for three months.

• Where ___________________ (you / study) Arabic?

• Li and Susan _______________ (try) four times already and will not give up.

• The old man ________________ (recently / get) a knee replacement.

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Exercise 2:
Choose the right option.
My grandparents got married when they were young. They (have lived – lived – are
living) together for more than 42 years now. When my grandma was 21, she (have – had – has)
her first son, my uncle. My uncle is now married too. He has been (marrying – marriage –
married) to my aunt for 10 years. At the age of 25, my grandma (give – gave – given) birth to my
mother, her second child. My grandparents named their children (for – before – after) famous
authors that they have been fans of for years. Now my mother has three children of her own and
she (has worked – worked – works) as a math teacher since she was 24 years old. Me and my
siblings always (visited – has visited – visit) our grandparents on the weekends. We spend our
time playing with our cousins, (eating – eat – edible) delicious food, or listening to childhood
stories. This (is – has been – will be) our tradition for the past five years and it will remain so in
the upcoming years.

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Exercise 3:
Put the words between parentheses in the right tense or form.
Since its start in 1998, Google ____________ (become) one of the most popular search engines. It
___________________ (grow) from a research project in the dormitory room of two college students to a
business that now ______________ (employ) approximately 20,000 people.
Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, met in 1995 when they _________________ (be) in
their twenties and graduate students in computer science at Stanford University in California.
They _______________ (realize) that Internet search was a very important field and began
_____________ (work) together to make searching easier. Both Page and Brin left their studies at
Stanford to work on their project. Interestingly, they __________________ (never/return) to finish
their degrees. Brin was born in Russia, but he has lived in the U.S. since he was five years old. His
father was a mathematician in Russia. Page, whose parents were computer experts, _______________
(be) interested in computers since he was six years old.

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Writing as a process

• Step 1: Pre-Writing.

Generate ideas.
Create a plan.
Develop an outline.
Do a preliminary search for information.
Take notes.
Organize materials for the first draft.

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• Step 2: Drafting.

Start with freewriting.

Structure your information (while keeping your outline in mind).

Elaborate on ideas and organize them.

Write a complete draft.

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• Step 3: Revising.

Find your main point.

Identify your purpose.

Evaluate your evidence.

Save only the good pieces.

Tighten and clean up your language.

Eliminate mistakes in grammar and usage.

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• Step 4: Editing and Proofreading.

Edit your work based on the notes you made during your revision.

Read each sentence carefully and identify its function in the paragraph.

Read each sentence aloud as you visually inspect the spelling and
sentence structure.

Allow enough time for several close readings of the text, with some break
time in between to give you a fresh perspective on your document.

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