Present Perfect Tense

Introduction

• Ask your students to share some of the things they or their family members do every week.
• Have them talk about the actions using complete sentences. For example, a student may share: I go to school. Dad does the dishes.
• Write some of the sentences on the board (verbatim, even if they contain mistakes).
• Have volunteers read the examples and correct any mistakes they notice. To help them, you can ask a guiding question such as: Does anything sound weird when you read it out loud?
• Explain the different participles that a verb can have. If a verb describes an activity that's currently taking place (e.g. jumping), then it's a present participle. It if describes an action that's already happened, it's a past participle (e.g. jumped).
• Let them know that you can tell whether a verb is regular or irregular based on its past participle. If a verb's past participle ends in -ed (e.g. laughed), then it's a regular verb. If it doesn't end in -ed (e.g. ran), then it's an irregular verb.