PRESENT PERFECT
VS PAST SIMPLE

Answer the questions:
◦ What devices or goods have you recently bought? Are you satisfied with
them?
◦ Which countries have you been to? Which is your favourite?
◦ Which countries have you never been to but would love to go to? Why?
◦ Which interesting films have you recently watched? Why would you
recommend them?

Present Perfect Form:
+ S + have/has + V3/ed
-S + haven’t/hasn’t + V3/ed
? Have/has + S + V3/ed
I/we/you/they + have
He/she/it + has

Use Present Perfect for:
 Lifetime experience;
 A completed past action that happened at unspecified moment in the past;
 Short past actions that have a result in the present;
 With words for, since, ever, never, always, recently, already, yet, just, before, so
far…

Pay attention!

Past Simple Form:
◦+ S + Ved/2
◦-S + didn’t + V0
◦? Did + S + V0?

Use Past Simple for:
 A completed past action that happened at specified moment in the past;
 Things that can’t be repeated or changed;
 With words yesterday, the day before yesterday, last …(Monday), (a year)… ago, in …(1991),
when…

Compare:
1.Ed Prior won his first gold medal in 1992.
2.Ed Prior has won a lot of medals.
In which sentence is the time mentioned?
When did the action happen?
In which sentence is the time not mentioned?
Is Ed Prior still alive?