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today we're going to learn how to use
the present tense to talk about
experience and achievements let's get
started
let's talk about how to use the present
perfect tense for experience
and achievements we're going to talk
about
how to use the present perfect tense in
this
specific way so let's begin by reviewing
the present
perfect tense
what is the present perfect tense
the present perfect tense is formed from
the
present tense of the verb have
so we use have or has depending on the
subject
and something called the past participle
of the verb
for example we can say i have
changed she has
read the book here we see we have
our verb have i have or she has
and then the past participle form of the
next verb
i have changed she has read
so when can we use present perfect tense
well there are a few different ways
we can use present perfect for something
that started
in the past and continues in the present
so started in the past and continues
today i have lived in korea
for seven years so it started in the
past
and it continues today i still live in
korea
we can use the present perfect for
something that
happened in the past but is important
now in the present i can't study because
i have lost my book so this
happened in the past but it's important
to what's happening
right now i can't study because i have
lost my book
we can also use the present perfect when
we're talking about
our experience up to the current
time up to the present i've seen that
film
i have seen that film this is what we're
going to focus on today
let's learn how to use the present
perfect to talk about
our experience and our achievements
let's begin by looking at what these two
words mean
what is an experience and what is
an achievement today when we are looking
at
an experience we're going to focus on
work experience so this means
work that you have done in the past
any experience you have working
so this means from the past until now
your
experience how about the word
achievement and achievement
is something you accomplish like a big
goal so we can also use present perfect
to talk about your achievements things
that you have
done that you feel proud of
this is how we can form sentences using
the present perfect
tense so we start with our subject
i you we they he she it
or someone's name have or has depending
on the subject
remember that for he she and it
we use has
then we have our past participle
so sometimes the past participle looks
like
normal past tense but we have some
different forms in here as well
like studied worked won
been and managed
and then we have the rest of our
sentence
so let's look at these sentences where
we are using
present perfect to talk about experience
number one i have studied at university
this is experience and it is relevant to
work right i have studied at university
you could also say what you have studied
i have studied
english at university
number two you have worked for five
years so we can use have worked
to talk about how long as well you have
worked for five years
how about an achievement we have won
a competition this is something you
might use in an interview
for example to talk about your
accomplishment or your achievement
related to the work or job you're
applying for
number four they have been to the
conference
and number five he has managed or she
has managed
10 people so these are all examples of
sentences
and also past participles we can use
when talking about experience using the
present perfect tense
we can also add not or never
to make the sentence negative
so let's see what that would look like
here we have our same sentences but now
we have added
not and never i have not
studied at university or again
you can add the subject i have not
studied
english at university
you have not worked for five years
we have never won a competition
they have not been to the conference and
he or she
has never managed 10 people
so notice that not and never go in the
same place
in these sentences when we're using
present perfect tense
i have not i have never
how would we ask a question using the
present perfect tense
particularly about experience and
achievements
well all we have to do like at many
points in
english is take our subject and the
first verb and
switch them around so instead of i have
studied
it's have you studied at university
instead of you have worked for five
years it becomes
have you worked for five years have we
won
a competition have they been to the
conference
has he or she managed people
so just like we see in other verb tense
forms
all we have to do is take our subject
and our first verb and switch them
around
we can also add the word ever
in a question we can only add ever
in a question not in our answers very
important
to ask if something has happened at any
time
so if i asked question number three for
example
have we won the competition
maybe i'm asking about now have we won
have we won the competition have we won
a competition
but if i add the word ever
this means at any time any time
have we ever won a competition
let's try to answer some present perfect
questions about experience and
achievements
that use the word ever so we're going to
look at
three examples and see the different
ways we
could answer these kinds of questions
number one have you ever worked
in an english english-speaking
environment
notice where the word ever is it's
between
our subject you and our past participle
worked have you ever worked this
is true in all present perfect questions
we put that word ever which means at
any time between our subject and
past participle and only in questions
we cannot say i have ever no no no no
we only use ever in questions
number two have you ever won an
award for your work
and number three have you gotten a
scholarship before
so in number three we see this word
before
this is this also means at any time
before now it has the same meaning
as ever it's just a different way that
we can
ask the question we could say have you
ever gotten a scholarship
or have you gotten a scholarship before
so these are all
questions about work experience and
achievements
let's take a look at how we would answer
these questions
let's take a look at number one have you
ever worked in an english-speaking
environment
well we could simply answer with yes or
no right
yes i have no i haven't
and if we want to answer with never
right have you ever i have
never worked in an english-speaking
environment
so these are the three main ways we can
answer
a question like have you ever
yes i have and then you could explain
your experience
yes i have i worked in
samsung and we spoke english with
our clients and so on no i haven't
or no i have never
remember ever means at any time
so never means at no time at
no time i have never worked in an
english
speaking environment number two
have you ever won an award for your work
let's look at how we answered number one
can you try to answer
number two in these three ways we could
say
yes i have
no i haven't or
no i have
never i have never won an award for my
work
so again these are the three simple ways
we can answer this question
we can always add more detail after
have you ever won an award for your work
yes i have i won a teaching award
in 2016 like this
last let's take a look at number three
have you gotten a scholarship
before so even though we aren't using
the word
ever here we are still asking about
before
anytime until or before now
so we would answer in the same way
yes i have no i haven't
or no i have never gotten a scholarship
so notice also in our answers so let's
let's
uh take a look again at
wherever comes it comes between the
subject
and the past participle it's the same
in our answer the the word
never become comes between subject and
have
and our past participle i have never
worked this is very very
important for us to remember
so let's go ahead and look at what we
should remember most from this slide
we always use the affirmative verb
i have never when we're using the word
never so we would not say i have not
never right that's in english called a
double negative
not never that means i have
so make sure to use i have never
if you are answering with never
so what are your experiences and
achievements
and how could you talk about them using
the present perfect tense
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