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Teaching present perfect
Pre-intermediate level

Description

An intermediate-level grammar lesson introducing and practicing the Present Perfect tense (have/has + past participle) for life experiences, recent events, and unfinished time periods.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide clarification of and enable students to correctly form and use the Present Perfect tense in affirmative, negative, and question forms.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide review of and improve Ss speaking fluency through pair and group activities using Present Perfect.

Procedure

Warmer(lead-in) (5 minutes) • To activate students' prior knowledge, get them engaged, and introduce the target structure naturally.

Greet students. Ask quick questions using Present Perfect: "Have you ever eaten sushi?" "Have you ever been to another country?" Write a few student answers on the board. Highlight examples without explaining grammar yet

Exposure stage 1 (10 minutes) • To clarify form, meaning, and use of Present Perfect.

Present the structure on the board: have/has + past participle. Show examples from the warmer. Explain uses: Life experiences (no specific time) Recent events with results in the present Unfinished time periods Include positive, negative, and question forms.

Exposure stage2 (10 minutes) • To reinforce the form and help students practice accurate sentence building.

Students complete gap-fill exercises and match sentence halves (e.g., I have never... → ...been to Japan). T checks answers and corrects together.

Exposure stage 3 (15 minutes) • To give students fluency practice using Present Perfect in real-life contexts.

Procedure: "Find someone who...' ." activity: Students walk around asking questions in Present Perfect (e.g., Have you ever...?). They write names of classmates who match. Share findings as a group. Materials: Worksheet with prompts.

Feedback and Error Correction (5 minutes) • To consolidate learning, correct errors, and reinforce correct usage.

During activities, note common mistakes on the board (without names). At the end, elicit corrections from students. Praise correct use.

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