1. Unit: Travel
Topic: Attractive Places
Mutthayomsuksa 1

3. • What did you see in the video?
• How many places have you seen in this
video?
• Have you ever been to any places in this
video?

4. VOCABULARY

5. fantastic adj.
extremely good

6. exciting adj.
making you feel excited

7. crowded adj.
if a place is crowded,
it is full of people

8. attractive adj.
having the power or quality of attracting

9. historic adj.
important or likely
to be important in history

10. subway n.
an electric railway operating
below the surface of the ground

11. restaurant n.
a place where meals are
served to the public

12. visit v.
etc. to go or come to see,
as for the purpose of friendship,
business, travel

13. Structure

14. Present Perfect Tense
Subject
+
has
have
+
verb3

15. we can use the present perfect with
unspecific expressions such as
Ever
never
so far
already
yet
Several times
before
many times
once

16. There are basically three uses for
the present perfect tense:
1.experience
2.change
3.continuing situation

17. 1. Present perfect tense for experience
We can do this with expressions such as
so far
in the last week
in the last year
this week
this month
up to now

18. Example
Have you ever been to Japan?
I have seen that movie six times in the last month.

19. 2. Present perfect tense for change
over time
to talk about a change or new information that has
happened over a period of time.

20. Example
My English has really improved
since I joined this class.
You have grown since the last time I saw you.

21. 3. Present perfect tense
for continuing situation
This is a state that started in the past
and continues in the present(and will
probably continue into the future).

22. Example
I have been here for 20 minutes.
I have been here since 9 o'clock.

23. How to use for/ since
We use for to talk about a period of
time - 5 minutes, 2 weeks, 6 years.
We use since to talk about a point
in past time - 9 o'clock, 1st January, Monday.

24. Conversation

25. • Annuar: Have you ever been to
Japan? I’m going in the fall.
• Taka: Yeah, I’ve been there twice.
• Annuar: Really? Tell me about it.
What’s it like?
• Taka: Oh, it’s fantastic.

26. • Annuar: Where did you go?
• Taka: On my first trip I went to Tokyo,
and on my second I visited Kyoto.
• Annuar: What did you think of Tokyo?
• Taka: Very big and exciting, but really
crowded too.
• Annuar: Yeah, I’ve seen pictures of the
crowded subway!
• Taka: And the restaurants are
excellent…but they’re kind of expensive.

27. • Annuar: And how about Kyoto?
• Taka: Kyoto is lovely. It’s a very historic
city, very peaceful and quiet.
• Annuar: Wow, that sound great…what
about the weather?
• Taka: Well, the first time I went was in
August, so it was really hot and humid. But
the second time was in October and it was
great. Warm and sunny, but not humid.
• Annuar: Sounds perfect! I’m really looking
forward to my trip.