Present Perfect

• English
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t
• Leerjaar 2

Grammar!

PRESENT PERFECT

PRESENT PERFECT

U2 - Still haven't found what I'm looking for

Listen to Still haven't found what I'm looking for by the band U2.

Fill in the blanks; what are the missing words?

U2 - Still haven't found what I'm looking for

I have kissed honey lips

Felt the healing in her fingertips

It burned like fire

This burning desire

I have spoken with the tongue of angels

I have held the hand of a devil

It was warm in the night

I was cold as a stone

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

I have climbed highest mountains

I have run through the fields

Only to be with you

Only to be with you

I have run

I have crawled

I have scaled these city walls

These city walls

Only to be with you

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

What is the meaning of the song?

Who can explain what the song is about?

Grammar

Why do they sing: 

                 I have climbed

Instead of:

         I climbed

or 

        I climb

Present Perfect

We use the present perfect to :

1. talk about experiences
and things that have happened at an indefinite time in the past.

2. An event/action that started or happened in the past but has a connection to the present. The action or event might be finished or unfinished. 

3. or to talk about recent events.

Present Perfect - form

Have/has + past participle (voltooid deelwoord) 

Past participle --> regular verbs and irregular verbs.

Present Perfect - form

Have/has + past participle (voltooid deelwoord) 

Past participle --> regular verbs and irregular verbs.

Regular verbs

Past participle:
(have/has + verb + -ed) 

Something has happened.

Present Perfect - form

Have/has + past participle (voltooid deelwoord) 

Past participle --> regular verbs and irregular verbs.

Regular verbs

Irregular verbs

Past participle:
(have/has + verb + -ed) 

Something has happened.

Own form of the verb.

They have known each other for years.

which one is the present perfect?

1. I have decided
2. I had decided
3. I decided
4. I did decide

which one is the present perfect?

1. I have lived in The Hague for 10 years
2. I walk to school everyday

which one is the present perfect?

1. I went to Spain last year.
2. They have been married since 2016

Present Perfect - drie manieren

1.  If you want to say since when something is happening or  how long  something is happening, you always use the present perfect (for/since). 
   We have lived here for three years.
   She hasn't talked to him since 2019.
   
   
2. If you want to say that something happened in the past but you don't know when, you always use the present perfect. Focus is on the action itself, not the time. 
   Have you visited Gran in the hospital yet?
   
   
3. When something has just happened. 
   Chris has already finished his exercises,
   He has just left the building.

He ____________ (to work) here since 2012.

1. worked
2. work
3. is working
4. has worked

We ___________ (to play) together for years.

1. has played
2. played
3. have played
4. play

Max ________ (to live) in the UK for 15 years.

Uncle Liam ________ (not - to have) a visit from his relatives since 2015.

(gebruik de verkorte vorm van not)

Max's brother and sister _____ never ______ (to do) anything like this.

(vul ook het woordje "never" in bij je antwoord: __ never __)

Homework

TB: ex. 7, 8 (p. 125)

WB: ex. 1, 2, 4 (p. 83)