Monday, 15 September 2025

present perfect in conversation

The present perfect is a problematic tense for students to use - so perhaps we need to make it feel a little more natural.

Here are a couple of lists to start us off:

Present Perfect Conversation Questions (100+ questions)

Present Perfect Conversation Questions

Then there is the full conversation. Let's have one about travel:

Dialogues in the Present Perfect tense: Travelling – Along Came English

Of course it's "grammar", but we can also see it as learning fixed phrases:

7 Present Perfect Phrases You Can Use In Conversation – Get into English

We can talk about specific things, such as:

on the albatross or the ant

But what's the perfect tense all about?!

English Tenses and Aspects 5 - The Retrospective Aspect - UsingEnglish.com

Perfect (grammar) - Wikipedia

Here's a little more:

Jay Doubleyou: the present perfect with goldilocks and the three bears

    Special Education - Goldilocks and The Three Bears - YouTube

    Goldilocks and the Three Bears - YouTube

Jay Doubleyou: present perfect for experiences

Jay Doubleyou: the use of tenses in the news

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