Recall
PRESENTATION
P. the teacher always asks this girl to clean the board
P. No, she is not cleaning the board now
P. I can’t clean the board sir, it’s already cleaned
P. the same pupils has cleaned the board
PRACTICE
T. Which course had you before English?
T. is the French teacher still in your classroom?
T. has the secretary opened his office yet?
T. have you ever travelled by plane?
Present Perfect Tense
Eg: She has talked to us for a long time
Has he been so tired?
To the past participle in regular verbs has exactly the same form as the simple past tense
An action with took place in the past, the time is not mentioned
S + Have/Has + Past part
Time markers
Just: immediately before speaking
Already: Some time before
Ever: at any time
Pupils work in group to prepare the dialogue
Turn the verbs in () into present continuous tense
Their form master (to speech) to them kindly
It (to rain) in limete now?
They (to build) Kinshasa road
It (to look) for some money
Today we will study Present perfect Tense
P. We had French before English
P. No, he is not; he has just left
P. No, he has not opened his office yet
P. No, I have never travelled by plane
The present perfect is used to express:
A recently completed action just, you have just asked me this pen.
Past action where time is not given or not definite, I have given instructions
It can be with time markers, before, just, already, yet, so for…
Think of a dialogue between a child and his father
