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The Present Perfect is used in two circumstances in English:
1- for actions that happened in the past at some indefinite time;
2- for actions that started in the past and continue to the present
1- He has gone to London.2- He has been in London for 2 years.3- He has been in London since 2011.
Why are these sentences in the Present Perfect?
How would you translate them to your own language?
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How can you form the Present Perfect?
Positive sentence
I , you, we , they, have done he, she, it, has worked
Negative sentence
I , you, we , they, haven’t done he, she, it, hasn’t worked
Question Have I , you,we, they, done? Has he, she, it worked?
The following slides contain information about London. Make sentences in the Present Perfect using the words SINCE and FOR.
Hyde park/ be open to everyone
1637 A long time
Beefeaters / guard the king or queen
The 1400s Six centuries
There / be / bridges across the River Thames
The first century
Two thousand years
The British royal family / live at Buckingham Palace
Nearly two hundred years
1837
There / be an underground in London
1863 More than 140
years
The London eye / spin
2000 A dozen years
Double-decker buses / be used
1829 More than 150
years