This document contains information about office vocabulary and the difference between the simple past and present perfect tenses in English. It includes a conversation practice with common office supplies, an exercise to review those supplies, and explanations of how the simple past is used to talk about completed past actions while the present perfect is used for actions that began in the past but continue in the present. Examples are provided to illustrate the uses of each tense.

1. English
Week 4 January 2016
1. Office Vocabulary
2. Present Perfect vs Simple
Past

2. Office Vocabulary

3. Office Vocabulary
Conversation about office supplies and stationary
vocabulary
1. A. Could you get some more _____________s from
the supply room? B. Some more _____________s
Sure. I’d be happy to.
2. A. Could you get some more _____________ from
the supply room? B. Some more _____________
Sure. I’d be happy to.
3. A. My desk is a mess! I can’t find my _________. B.
Here it is next to your ____________.

4. Office Vocabulary
Exercise about office supplies and stationary
vocabulary
1. Which supplies and equipment do you use?
2. Where do you buy them?
3. What do you use them for?
4. Which supplies in this lesson do you have at
home?
5. Which supplies in this lesson do you have at
school?

5. Grammar:
Simple Past vs Present Perfect

6. Simple Past
 With most verbs the past tense is formed by
adding -ed:
call >> called; like >> liked; want >> wanted; work
>> worked
 We use the past tense to talk about:
something that happened once in the past:
 I met my wife in 1983.
 We went to Spain for our holidays.
 They got home very late last night.

7. Present Perfect
 The present perfect is formed from the
present tense of the verb have and the past
participle of a verb
 We use the present perfect tense:
for something that started in
the past and continues in the present:
 They’ve been married for nearly fifty years.
 She has lived in Liverpool all her life.

8. Any Questions?