Students use the present perfect form to talk about things they have and haven’t done as well as the past simple to add details about the experiences. Students will be able to talk about past experience with confidence.
Present Perfect and Past Simple for Experiences
Overview
People and placesTravel
Level
Pre-Intermediate: A2+Intermediate: B1
Included
3 student pagesTeaching notes
Teaching time 90 mins
Language functions
Asking and answering questionsTalking about the past
Language forms
Past formsPerfect formsVerb noun collocations
Activities
ConversationGap fillInterviewQuestions and answersReadingSentence completion
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