0:00 hey everyone and welcome back to another English grammar in use intermediate video and today we're going to talk about uh Unit 8 present perfect to I have done in the last video we started talking about present perfect so if you haven't watched that one already then I suggest you go back and watch that because I've already talked about some things and we're just going to continue on today now remember the present perfect uses have or has plus the past participle and we discussed last time that the past participle is verb three the third form of the verb so whenever you think about using present perfect you need to think
0:47 do did done ah it's this one See Saw seen ah it's this one okay and we use it to talk about a period of time that continues until now so present perfect is something in the past but it continues until now or it has a connection until now for example have you ever eaten Sushi this is talking about your experience in your life from your birth until today have you ever eaten Sushi yes I have but I've never been to Japan from the day of my birth until today I've never been to Japan but maybe I will go to Japan in the future and that's maybe one way to think about it here's an example conversation this
1:34 is taken from the English grammar in use book which you can also read as you are going through this with me and then you can do some of the exercises afterwards if you have any questions then just leave them in the comments below let's study this example it says here have you traveled a lot Jane Janes says yes I've been to lots of places really have you ever been to China Jane says yes I've been to China twice what about India no I haven't been to India so as we can see here and thanks to the graph over there we can see that when we are talking about a period of time that continues from the past until now we have to use present perfect so you can see have traveled
2:20 have been in this example and here Dave and Jane are talking about places Jane has visited in her life now that begins from the day she was born until today so when you're talking present perfect always think about from the past until today okay have you ever been to China have you ever been to India let me know in the comments below remember to use a four sentence so why do we use present perfect well last video we talked about it a little bit today we're going to concentrate on experiences from our birth to now have you ever eaten caviar caviar is like fish eggs actions that have never happened so like I have
3:07 never smoked for example or we've never had a car something that's in your life something that's not happened repeated action so things you've done more than once in your life she's read that book three times and superlatives superlatives is when we want to say the most or the best and usually we use it to talk about in my whole life it's the most boring movie I've ever seen and I've ever seen means seen in my whole life in my whole life notice I'm saying in my whole life a lot because there's one way to think about present perfect from past until now now here are some words we sometimes use present perfect with recently have you heard anything from Ben recently recently it's kind of like in the short
3:54 past for last few days maybe the last week or so can also use lately as well lately has a similar meaning we could also say in the last few days that's a bit more specific I've met a lot of people in the last few days uh so far that means up to now everything is going well there haven't been any problems so far there haven't been any problems up to now and since since and for we've talked about it as well and since we can say it's rained every day since I arrive here the its remember the apostrophe s here is actually standing for has not is so just be careful with that one way to check is the form of the verb for a long time we haven't seen
4:40 each other for a long time now instead of using a long time you could also put a day how many days for 3 days how many months for two months how many years for 3 years so we can use a time frame after four now now we can actually use present perfect with today some people might think oh we need to use present continuous actually we can use present perfect with today or this week because it's not finished right what time is it today here it's like half 8 in the morning but when the period is not finished like today is not finished actually today is just started I can do so many things today I've drunk four cups of coffee today that isn't true by
5:27 the way but maybe by the end of the day I can say I've drunk four cups of coffeee today uh when it's like 7:00 have you had a holiday this year this year is hasn't finished yet has it it's still 2025 today still 2025 tomorrow it was 2025 yesterday the time is still the same uh I haven't seen Tom this morning have you and in here like I said it's half 8 in the morning it is still the morning so when we think about present perfect we shouldn't use it with a time frame that's in the past but if if the time frame is still the same now like today is now this year is now and this morning is now ah I can use present perfect it's great but um if it's like 1 p.m. and you
6:13 say I haven't seen Tom this morning it sounds a little bit weird you should say I didn't see Tom this morning now we can also use it to talk about first time events as well so for example the first time we ever do do something uh we can also use it in a negative form as well and you can see that from the examples and usually we say it is the first time somebody has done something it's the first time he has driven a car for example and if this is the first time you have seen me or you have watched my video then make sure you press subscribe and press the like button for more videos your English will improve by 5% every time you like a video
6:59 he hasn't driven a car before this is the negative form you can see the word before here is used with not he hasn't driven a car before and we can change not for never like we talked about in the previous video he has never driven a car before never is like a more emphasis I want to emphasize I haven't done it thanks so much for watching today's video and if you have any questions then make sure you leave them in the comments below and uh make sure after you finish the video and you have this book English grammar in use that you try uh some of the uh exercises on the other page uh is a good way to practice and if you have any
7:45 questions about anything or you want to check some sentences just uh leave your questions and sentences in the comments below you can watch more of these videos by checking out uh the playlist all about these class is and see you in the next one
