are you tired of learning dozens of explanations and grammar rules for
present perfect how about learning contextualized
situations rather than just grammar explanation hi guys I'm teacher Prix and
I'm gonna help you talk to anyone anywhere anytime in English well let's
keep this video short and simple okay I will not be giving grammar explanations
talking about rules past participle he/she have has I'm going to show you
situations when you can use present perfect okay if you would like another
separate video with explanations grammar instructions leave me a comment with
your suggestions and I'll definitely make a video for that now let's get down
to business many students struggle not to understand present perfect they
understand the rules the way to use it but they don't have the situations so
I'm going to show you here five basic situations that we all have that we can
all talk about and that are great for present perfect one I haven't watched
that movie yet here I'm talking about a movie that I didn't see but I have plans
to see but at this moment I haven't I didn't I couldn't watch all things all
activities that for some reason you haven't had the opportunity to do at
this moment you can use present perfect so for example my friend asks me oh
have you watched movie no I haven't watched that movie yet I am saying that
at this moment until today I have not watched this movie but I have plans to
do it maybe for next week I have some more time I'll be able to watch it the
same so this is one example I'm talking about a movie why movie most people like
to watch movies TV shows so it's a good moment to use present perfect you start
talking to a friend about a move movie and then the movie your friend is
talking about you didn't watch you didn't you can say oh I haven't watched
this movie tell me more about it let's see another example mmm I haven't made
dinner yet I'm waiting for your dad he's going to help me so here I'm just
telling someone that I couldn't finish dinner at this moment not yet but I will
when your father when their father arrives so here I am describing another
activity not a movie this time that I didn't finish at this moment that I
couldn't do at this moment so I use present perfect to say it so the movie
is one example just to help you with easy situations but pretty much many
activities that are related to this I couldn't do I didn't have time but I
will you can use present perfect second I have never eaten Jamaican food I don't
know why is Jamaican I don't know anything about Jamaica so if you are
from Jamaica tell me what kind of food do you eat a lot of seafood what exactly
hmm can we eat in Jamaica like typical food from Jamaica but anyway I use it
here I have present perfect never so to talk about things that you never did you
never went there you never tried this you never you never did you never went
until this moment in your life until now you can use never in this sentence you
can use present perfect in this situation for me an example I have never
eaten Jamaican food maybe one day I will but until now looking all looking back
to all my life until this very moment I have never eaten Jamaican food maybe one
day so here you can use present perfect to activities you never did before okay
- you've never done in your life never you never did these activities in your
life let's see another example I have never driven a Ferrari well I'm not
really rich so I don't think that I will one day I don't think I'll
ever drive a Ferrari well maybe one day who knows but until now in all my
life I have never driven a Ferrari how about you have you ever third situation
I have just called her now in this situation I am talking about an
activity that I finished at this exact moment or a few seconds ago or a few
minutes ago I literally just called her I finished this activity at this moment
at a few seconds ago that's a great opportunity to use present perfect and
use this word just so you need the word just to indicate that you just did this
activity that at this moment a few seconds a few minutes ago you did this
activity now it's very common to say to see people using simple pass for this
situation which is okay too but again I'm showing you situations simple
situations so that you can have ideas okay the purpose of this video is to
give you ideas to moments when you can use present perfect and this is another
one there are many things you have just done for example you are in your class
with your English teacher and she gives you an exercise out teacher
I've just finished it present perfect could you you say I just finished it
well yes you can but how about using trying to practice present perfect in
this situation an example hey, i have just made dinner can't you stay for 10
minutes I'm sorry mom I'm really late so here the mom and the son are talking
and probably or the daughter, I don't know, and she had just made dinner you know at
that moment she finished so she was asking her son or her daughter to stay a
little longer but the person couldn't so another
situation and then here I just gave you an example of calling of cooking dinner
but creativity imagination what are other situations
that you just finished and you were talking to the person about it
sometimes you are at work and your boss stops you and says hey how about that
report remember and you finished at that moment a few minutes or an hour ago you
can say hey I have just finished that report I'm going to send you right away
I'm going to send you to you immediately all right so another situation another
perfect great situation for present perfect for I have known Jack for four
years now many students when they are talking about the time the how long they
know a person they know a friend or they know something they usually use simple
present I know Joao for ten years and this is wrong you need to use present
perfect and this is actually a great opportunity to do it now don't get me
wrong if you you are talking to a native speaker and you say I know that person
for ten years they will understand no worries about it this is just to help
you try to correct it okay so these are suggestions to help you think of
situations when you can use present perfect and the time you know someone or
you know something or that you have done something is a nice way to use present
perfect in another video I will talk more about present perfect and present
perfect continuous there's a bit of a difference between them but let's not
focus on that let's focus on trying to at first be able to use it okay now
another example I have known my best friend for 20 years so I know this
person for 20 years instead of using present simple simple present use
present perfect and the last example of the day of this video is have you ever
seen the rain
see now I just useed this example because I
like the song do you know this song, it is beautiful song
come on old but gold now the purpose here is to show you that I can use
present perfect for questions but there are many kinds of questions let's focus
on one today in the second example i gave you one of I have never when you
never did an activity in your life in this one I'm asking you something
similar I'm asking you if until now in your life experience you did or not an
activity and to do that you need ever so for example have you ever let's use the
Jamaican food have you ever eaten Jamaican food so I use ever and Here I
am showing you that I want to know if in all your life you have done or not that
activity and the nice thing is here that you can use for many actions I used the
verb eat to eat but you can use for anything else
Oh have you ever drunk red wine oh yes I have I love wine I always drink wine so
I want to know if the person did or not that certain activity in all their
life now why am I taking this approach to show you present perfect again as I
said in the beginning the purpose here is not to teach you grammar at least not
today okay but to show you situations now if you analyze the situations these
are very common ones situations that you can easily talk about for you
intermediate student pre-intermediate speaker advanced speaker so it's about
it's a matter of practicing ok trying to relate the situations to present
perfect connected and try to use it in your conversations
ok you can even write if you don't have anyone to talk to at this moment write
about it now are these the only situations no there are many other ones
I wish I could show you more if you like this video if you like the idea of this
video leave me in the comments section tell me what you thought about it I
will definitely make more videos talking about more situations more
explanation about present perfect so tell me your ideas and your suggestions
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