Tuesday, 1 March 2022

EF56- 16 class- present perfect/present perfect progressive verb tenses

 

English Foundations 5/6

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30

 

Al Haley ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

Class blog: haleyshec.blogspot.com

 

Today’s agenda

·      Quiz#3- complex sentences- adverb clauses

·      present perfect verb tense exercises

·      Begin learning how to quote text “”

·      HW   Read “Roses Sing on New Snow” for Thursday. I emailed

this to you this morning. I will print the story for you for tomorrow.

 

Wednesday

·      Continue with quoting work

·      begin noun clauses

·      HW   Finish RSoNS. Make notes for class discussion tomorrow.

 

Thursday

·      “Roses Sing on New Snow”

·       

 

 

Red Cross / Red Crescent-

Doctors Without Borders-

 

Norman Bethune – Canadian doctor

- famous in China, not famous in Canada

 

 

 

Verb tenses: Present perfect and present perfect progressive

 

-present perfect – started in the past, continues up to now

“Jill has worked at this clinic for five years.”

“Jill has worked at this clinic since STARTING TIME.”

“Jill has worked at this clinic since 2017.”

“Jill has worked at this clinic since five years.” XXX Very common error

“Jill has worked at this clinic since 2017 until the present.” “until the present” – ok, a little redundant

 

“Joan has been married for 20 years.”

“Joan has been an engineer for 20 years.”

“Joan has married for 20 years.” XXX

 

to marry(v)  Jun married with Joe last year. XXX

Jun got married to Joe.

 

Jun has been unhappy with her marriage for a long time.

 

married(v)(a)

marriage(n)

 

COMMON WAY TO SAY IT

A got married to C.

A married B.

SAME MEANING: Joe married Joan. Joan married Joe.

My daughter married her boyfriend.

My daughter got married to her boyfriend.

 

Sarah is married to her work. She is a workoholic.

workolholic- negative meaning

alcoholic – alcohol is damaging your life

chocoholic – humourous

shopoholic- retail therapy

 

 

-present perfect progressive/continuous ‘ing’ verb

Janet has lived on East 57th Avenue since 2002. perfect perfect

Janet has been living on East 57th Avenue since 2002. present perfect progressive

 

present perfect – past until now

present perfect progressive- past until now and into the future

 

Exercise 1: present perfect and simple past

 

1.    The class has already started. The class started already.

2.    enrolled – simple past

3.    Did you finish your presentation last night. simple past

Have you finished your presentation? present perfect

Have you finished your presentation yet?

4.    She did not call me back yesterday. simple past

She has not called me back yet yesterday.

yet – puts our meaning in the present

 

 

COMPOUND, yet - , but ‘yet’ is not commonly used in compound sentences

FANBOYS – forget about that ‘yet’

 

5.    gave/had given – subtleties of meaning

6.    trained – simple past

The athlete was training for hours on the weekend.

7.    I sang while I cleaned my house.  cleaned – simple past OK

I sang while I was cleaning my house. Better!!

‘while’ goes with ‘ing’ verbs really well

8.    He did not hear has not heard the latest news. implies present

Difference:

He has not heard the latest news. – implies the present

She did not call me back yesterday. – means the past

 

I have not told her my decision. + yet

I did not tell her my decision. + yesterday

 

9.    I washed my face a went to bed.

washed – simple past

parallel verbs – both simple past ‘washed’ ‘went’

 

10.                       Have you left for Paris yet?

Did you leave for Paris yet? OK, not quite right

 

Good and better rather than right and wrong.

 

Have you been leaving left for Paris yet. XXX

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