1. Check this out!
The Present Perfect is used in two
circumstances in English:
1- for actions that happened in the past at
some indefinite time;
2- for actions that started in the past and
continue to the present

2. 1- He has gone to London.
2- He has been in London for 2 years.
3- He has been in London since 2011.
Why are these sentences in the Present
Perfect?
How would you translate them to your own
language?

3. How can you form
the Present Perfect?
Positive I, you, we , they, have done
sentence he, she, it, has worked
Negative I, you, we , they, haven’t done
sentence he, she, it, hasn’t worked
Question Have I, you,we, they, done?
Has he, she, it worked?
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4. The following slides contain information
about London. Make sentences in the
Present Perfect using the words SINCE
and FOR.

5. Hyde park/ be open to everyone
 1637
 A long time

6. Beefeaters / guard the king or queen
 The 1400s
 Six centuries

7. There / be / bridges across the River
Thames
 The first
century
 Two thousand
years

8. The British royal family / live at
Buckingham Palace
 Nearly two
hundred years
 1837

9. There / be an underground in London
 1863
 More than 140
years

10. The London eye / spin
 2000
 A dozen years

11. Double-decker buses / be used
 1829
 More than 150
years