Unit 6

Present Perfect vs Present Perfect Continuous

Unit 6 

In this unit we learned about Present P. and Present P. C., Direct and indirect questions.

I will talk about first of the present perfect and present perfect continuous.

Present perfect 

Present perfect is used to express an action that started in the past but it continues to make in the present; an action that have been done constantly in the past and it continues doing today; when we are talking about an experience or something that happened us in the past and it is important to say it, in the moment that we are speaking.

In this part of grammar is not important to say the time exactly that the action was performed. Example we can’t say:

I have done my homework yesterday

We can’t use the time expressions like:

Yesterday, when I was a child, last year, last week, at the moment, that day… among other.

In this case we use unspecific expressions like:

Never, already, just yet, several times, before, many times… among other.

 

Structure

Subject + has/ have + past participle + complement

In the class the teacher gave us some examples to explain this topic.

Examples given in class with just and already adverbs

(Just)

I have just eaten a delicious pineapple.

 aux.  adv.  p.p

(Already)

I have already presented the Elash.

  Aux.  adv.       p.p

Note:

Yet is used in negative form or in question.

Present perfect Continuous

 

Present P.C. is used to express that an action or activity was started in the past and it is carried out until now. We can use the expressions like: since, for, lately, recently, to tell the duration of the time which has been taken to doing the activity or the precise moment in time, at the time when the activities began to be done.

Structure

Subject + has/have + been + present participle + complement

Examples

I have been doing exercise for 4 hours

I have been working in this company since 1974.

The professor made a dynamic activity so that the issue will be clear. She asked us to make a groups of 3 members to create a sentences with this part grammar.

These was my sentences that I did.

Images and sentences about Bhutan country 

 video

After the explanation of this topic we read the page 68 and mark the words we did not know.

Unknown words

Daunting - Desalentadora

Petrified - Petrificado

Plummeting - Caer verticalmente

Annoying - Molesto

Slimy - Baboso (adj.)

                                          Leeches - Sanguijuelas

 Direct and Indirect questions

English has two different ways to ask questions (indirect and direct question). The difference of them is that indirect question is more polite than direct question and the information that is given is more extensive than a direct question.

The indirect questions may begin in different ways like: can (could) you tell me? , do you know? , I’d like to know if, do you mind?.....

Example:

Do you know if Santiago is in his house?

Can you tell me if Santiago is in his house?

I’d like to know if Santiago is in his house.

Direct question is also called closed questions, because there are only two possible answers: yes and no. These kinds of question are pretty common in English and these are usually used with people that we don’t know, by the fact that the information given is not extensive.

Example of direct question

Did Karry go to Italy last year?

For this topic, the teacher made a little dynamic activity. It consisted to write as much sentences as we can with a specific time that the teacher gave us. Then, we solved the page 73. As homework, the teacher left us to do the page 77 (review)