Lesson Plan Theme: Present Perfect
On this page, you will find lessons plans relating to "Present Perfect".
Pre-Intermediate
My Interesting LifeTarget Language: Present Perfect for past experiences.Description: Some focus on the form of the present perfect tense followed up by a reading on someone's past experiences. A communicative activity gets students using the present perfect tense to ask their fellow students about their lives and what they have done. And we finish with a game!
Duration: 60 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2G2 |
Have You Been? When Did You Go?Target Language: Contrast between using Present Perfect and Past Simple Tenses.Description: This lesson introduces the contrast with the past simple and how these tenses can be used together. Students should do lesson Lesson Plan 2G2 (above) before tackling this lesson.
Duration: 60 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2G3 |
Have You Finished Yet?Target Language: Present Perfect \ for + since.Description: Looking at finished and unfinished periods of time. And people's life experiences and how to describe them. This is the third in a series of four lessons on the present perfect.
Duration: 70 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2G4 |
It's Party Time!Target Language: Yet / Already / Just.Description: The children are having a party and the preparations for it form the basis of this lesson to practise yet/already/just and use of the present perfect. This is the fourth in a series of four lessons on the present perfect. The UK and US versions of this lesson plan are very different, mainly because of the use of just/present perfect in British English and just/past simple in American English.
Duration: 75 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2G5 |
What Happened?Target Language: Present Perfect, Past Simple, "just".Description: Using the marker "just" to talk about the recent past with the use of the present perfect.
Duration: 75 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2G13 |
The Job InterviewTarget Language: Present perfect, for/since, work experience.Description: Recording of a job interview in a lesson which focuses on present perfect to talk about life/work experience. Some work on for/since.
Duration: 40 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2L3 mp3 file/info: Click here |
I've Been A SecretaryTarget Language: Present perfect, past simple to talk about life experiences; work.Description: Talking about life experiences and especially jobs that you have done. Main activity is a jigsaw reading activity which gets students using present perfect or past simple tenses.
Duration: 30 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 2R1 |
Intermediate
How Long?Target Language: Present perfect continuous.Description: This is a lesson centered around an article about somebody's life changing decision. After speaking about him, students then talk about their own life experiences.
Duration: 65 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3G5 |
You've Changed!Target Language: Using present perfect to describe changes.Description: Students talk about and describe people they know well and, after listening to a conversation between two friends who chat about how their lives have changed, talk about how their family and friends have changed.
Duration: 55 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L1 mp3 file/info: Click here |
Here Is The NewsTarget Language: Present Perfect to introduce news.Description: A news bulletin listening which focuses on using the present perfect tense to talk about recent events and a couple of exercises to consolidate.
Duration: 80 minutes. Lesson Plan Code: 3L8 mp3 file/info: Click here |