hello aubrey how are you excellent how are you i'm good i'm good we um we're in a very wet spring
here it has rained more than it ever has in portland like it's ridiculous and i want
everyone to notice i used the present perfect stair yes exactly right we're talking about the
present perfect today you guys we have discussed this in previous episodes you may have heard but
this time we're focusing a little bit on the past participles because recently i have heard there it
is again lots of mistakes natives making mistakes with past participles and i hear students make a
mistake with that exact structure all the time i hear students say i have here all the time i hear
students say that right um so guys yeah like aubry just said even natives sometimes make mistakes
with these past participles the reason why this grammar today is so important for you guys
getting this present perfect correct you need a variety of grammar structures and we basically
only use like three grammar structures i mean most of our verb tenses not grammar structures
verb tenses most of the verb tenses we use right it's going to be present simple past simple or
present perfect yeah exactly perfect those three yes right we have this huge list of them when you
look in a grammar book we just don't use most of them very often so you shouldn't be planning
on trying to force yourself to use them in the speaking exam it's not going to sound very natural
and it's really easy to make mistakes but this one present perfect you are likely to use you need to
make sure you've got the grammar down you should so when do we use present perfect now again guys
we are teaching you the real way you should use it the way natives use it the way it will be correct
most likely on the exam okay grammar books teach you different stuff it's not always correct like
grammar books always teach you to use present perfect to describe something that started in
the past and continues to the present now that is correct but natives don't usually use it like that
we use a past continuous for stuff like that like past present continuous i present perfect
continuous i have been living in portland for six years that's what natives would use that's
the verb tense now when do we use present perfect we use it to introduce past experiences things
finished in the past when we don't say we don't care or we don't know when okay so introducing
past experiences you should be using present perfect yeah this is perfect for part one and for
introducing part two because often you wanna give that little bit of background information but it
doesn't matter when that happened it just happened sometime in the past present perfect is perfect
for that so you want to be ready and today's grammar lesson is going to give you these little
inside tips of what to watch out for because there is a pitfall here the past participles can
be irregular they're different from the verb that you use for past simple which can be tricky you
know i um i remember when i worked in taiwan and i would hear students in english class reciting
the different verb tenses and the irregular verbs like swim swam swung swim swam swam and so like
whenever i worked with an adult student and they made a mistake and i would be like is that correct
is that the past participle they would stop and be like swim swim no i have swum so um the point is
that like i feel like most of the time we use present perfect is with these irregular past
participles like it's more common to use irregular ones than regular ones so guys we're gonna outline
four um past participles that are irregular that we hear mistakes with all the time so you guys can
at least get these correct because you will likely use these on the exam yes exactly okay let's dive
into the first one which i just heard yesterday at a taco shop girl next to me she looked very well
educated and yet she said this sentence ready for it okay yes the incorrect right the only reason i
knew that was because of what she had wrote to me the day before and my teacher brain is like
ouch this hurts my ears i don't like that so that's past perfect which i like because
students often ask about when to use it past perfect we can only use to talk about something
that happened before something else in the past so we're talking about two past actions
and this one describes the first one right so had wrote no guys written and here's a pronunciation
point we usually don't say written right we use that glottal stop written had written has written
exactly right so that one's very common right that even though you know i wrote past tense the past
participle is written so you can't just use the past tense of a verb and expect it to be right
right so just like you said here for past perfect and for present perfect these can be different so
written right wrote this one you have to keep an eye on because there's a good chance you will
talk about on the speaking test something you have written at some point well you're asked
about school and education uh past and present in part one um i know there was a question about
like would you ever want to write a novel or would you want to write a book in the future
it was in a group of handwriting questions in part one um so yeah for sure like
yeah you have to use this structure there right so guys just to check in quick review
the perfect tenses are the verb have plus a past participle right just a quick check in for you
guys so here's another irregular we hear used incorrectly even by natives sometimes from the
verb drink which is also irregular so um we hear this all the time i have drank man i seriously
hear people say that i hear all the time i have drank coffee for years and i don't think that
it's unhealthy so again if you're talking about daily habits right this is a common sentence um
now that was incorrect but it's still something we hear so what is the correct sentence i you
would say drunk i have drunk coffee for years and i think the reason people say drink so often
is they're shying away from saying i have drunk because maybe it sounds like they're saying
i am drunk totally and they want to avoid saying anything like that i think that's what it is i
totally agree i know that i've questioned myself in my mind sometimes like really like drunk is
the past participle it's the past participle it does not mean alcohol it's just a verb tense
um not verb tense verb form ah we must be correct here at ielts energy okay we have two
more examples for you guys so you don't make these common mistakes so the verb swim irregular right
this is incorrect sentences we have heard students say and maybe natives i have swam there before on
ielts there could be questions about water sports about activities near the water um about just
swimming as a topic in part one so that sentence is incorrect what is the correct sentence yeah you
would say i have swum there before i hear my kids say this wrong all the time they'll totally from
the pool and say i have swam and i correct them they're kids they're learning this is difficult
but i also hear adults make this mistake with the verb swim as well it almost sounds a little funny
to hear i have swum because it doesn't say it wrong so often swam does sound kind of weird to me
um but it's correct you guys okay and now you know these are small mistakes for sure but mistakes of
verb tense and word form do impact your score now word form is part of your vocabulary score but
these mistakes would actually impact the grammar score okay and these are mistakes that are obvious
to an examiner ear right so these are mistakes you really do not want to make on your speaking test
or writing but today we're focused on speaking all right the last one with the verb eat oh this one
gives me the shivers it's so bad so here is an incorrect sentence i have eight so many exotic
foods like fried grasshoppers oh man that felt so wrong saying that no it sounds so terrible it
should be i have eaten i have eaten so many exotic foods oh natives say this wrong all the time
it's funny um i have a good friend who's in mexico right now and she just texted that she ate
fried grasshoppers in salsa they made salsa and it had bits of fried grasshoppers in it delicious
extra protein right why not extra protein so guys we know that you find these grammar episodes very
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aubry this has been fun yes it has been extremely fun i love some good present perfect grammar
love some great participle conversations all right aubry i'll see you tomorrow
see you tomorrow bye you