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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