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How Well Do You Know Your Partner

This document provides teaching notes for an activity to practice the present perfect and past simple tenses. Students are paired up and each completes sentences about their partner using the correct tense. They then take turns asking each other questions to check if the information they wrote is correct. The goal is for students to test how well they know their partner by seeing how many sentences they got right. The student with the highest number of correct sentences wins.

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How Well Do You Know Your Partner

This document provides teaching notes for an activity to practice the present perfect and past simple tenses. Students are paired up and each completes sentences about their partner using the correct tense. They then take turns asking each other questions to check if the information they wrote is correct. The goal is for students to test how well they know their partner by seeing how many sentences they got right. The student with the highest number of correct sentences wins.

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TEACHER’S NOTES

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S How well do you know your partner?

Activity Type Introduction


Grammar and Speaking In this fun present perfect vs. past simple activity, students see
Activity: guessing, how well they know a partner by completing sentences about
sentence completion, them in the present perfect and past simple and then verifying
asking and answering the information by asking and answering questions.
questions from prompts
(pair work) Procedure
Divide the students into pairs. Give each student a copy of the
Focus worksheet.
Present perfect and past
Tell the students that they are going to see how well they know
simple
their partner by completing sentences about them in the present
perfect or past simple.
Aim
Demonstrate the activity by writing the first two sentences from
To practice present the worksheet on the board. Invite students to complete the two
perfect and past simple sentences using your name with information that they think is
sentences and questions. true for you.

Example:
Preparation
1. James started learning English in 1990.
Make one copy of the
2. James has had his mobile phone for six months.
worksheet for each
student.
Next, elicit the questions the students need to ask you to find out
if their sentences are correct, i.e. 'When did you start learning
Level English?' and 'How long have you had your mobile phone?'

Intermediate (B1) Then, answer the questions to see if the students' sentences are
correct or not.

Time Working alone, students then complete the sentences about their
35 minutes partner in the present perfect or past simple using the correct
form of the verbs in brackets. Students do this without conferring
with their partner.

Next, students prepare the questions they need to ask to verify


the information. Go around helping the students as necessary.

After that, students find out how many of their sentences are
right by taking it in turns to ask and answer questions in the
present perfect or past simple.

Students score themselves one point for each correct sentence.

The student with the highest score wins.

Afterwards, get feedback from the students to see how well they
know their partner and find out who got the highest score.

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PRESENT PERFECT VS. PAST SIMPLE

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S How well do you know your partner?

A. Complete the sentences about your partner in the present perfect or past simple
using the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

1. .................................. (start) learning English in ................................

2. .................................. (have) his/her mobile phone for ................................

3. .................................. (eat) ................................ for dinner last night.

4. .................................. (know) his/her best friend for ................................

5. .................................. (come) to class by/on ................................

6. .................................. (be) awake since ................................

7. .................................. (go) to ................................ last weekend.

8. .................................. (live) in his/her current house/apartment for .............................

9. .................................. (clean) his/her bedroom last ................................

10. .................................. (not buy) any new clothes since ................................

11. .................................. (drink) coffee ................................

12. .................................. (live) in this city/town for ................................

13. .................................. (get) his/her hair cut last ................................

14. .................................. (not be) on holiday for ................................

15. .................................. (do) some exercise last ................................

B. Now, find out how many of your sentences are right by taking it in turns to ask and
answer questions in the present perfect or past simple.

Examples:

When did you I started How long have I have had my


start learning learning English you had your mobile phone
English? in 2014. mobile phone? for two years.

Great! Oh no!
That's what I wrote
I wrote. one year.

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