TChon 14 PRESENT PERFECT WITH SINCE AND FOR.doc

Usage: Thời hiện tại hoàn thành dùng kèm với SINCE và FOR để diễn tả một hành động bắt đầu diễn ra trong quá khứ và vẫn còn xảy ra ở hiện tại.. Note:Cách dùng SINCE và FOR: - For + a p

Topic4: MY NEIGHBORHOOD

PERIOD 14 PRESENT PERFECT WITH SINCE AND FOR

A Revision: The Present Perfect Tense

1 Form

- Affirmative: S + has/have +V3/ed…

- Negative: S + has/have + not + V3/ed…

- Interrogative: Has/Have + S + V3/ed….?

2 Usage: Thời hiện tại hoàn thành dùng kèm với SINCE và FOR để diễn tả một hành động bắt đầu

diễn ra trong quá khứ và vẫn còn xảy ra ở hiện tại.

John has lived in that house for 20 years (He still lives there.)

= John has lived in that house since 1984 (Giả sử hiện nay là 2004)

3 Note:Cách dùng SINCE và FOR:

- For + a period of time (FOR + khoảng thời gian:)

For two hours/a week/20 minutes/50 years/five days/a long time/six months/ages

He has worked here for a year (He began working here a year ago and still works here.)

- We do not use for + all (all day/all my life etc.):

* I've lived here all my life (not 'for all my life')

- Since with the point in time (SINCE + thời điểm bắt đầu:)

Since 8 o'clock/1977/Monday/Christmas/12 May/lunchtime/April/they were at school

He has worked here since this time last year.

- S + has/have +V3/ed…… since + S + V2/ed….

Ex: We have known each other since we worked in this factory.

B Practice:

I Put in for or since.

1 It's been raining ……… lunchtime

2 Tom's father has been doing the same job ……… 20 years

3 Have you been learning English ……… a long time?

4 Sarah has lived in London ……… 1985

5 ……… Christmas, the weather has been quite good

6 Please hurry up! We've been waiting ……… an hour

7 Kevin has been looking for a job ……… he left school

8 The house is very dirty We haven't cleaned it ……… ages

II Put the verbs in parentheses into the present perfect tense:

1 He (practice) _ the piano Since 8 o'clock.

2 I (not meet) him this movie since last week

3 Jorge (read) the newspaper for an hour

4 Maria (l earn) _ English since grade 6?

5 He (swim) _ for half an hour

6 How long Mr Johnson (work) here? For 35 years

7 We (begin) _ to study for the test since this morning

III Put the verbs in parentheses into the correct tenses:

1 John (hate) smoke

2 Jill always (get up) at 6.00 a.m

3 Joan (travel) _ around the world

4 We (not see) _ this movie last night

5 Terry (clean) the lawn tomorrow

6 John and I (be) pen pals for nearly 3 years

7 Maryam (stay) with us at the moment

8 He (wear) _ the same coat since he (move) _ here.

9 I (not see) _ your brother recently

10 Listen to those people! What language they (speak) _?

.IV Match the sentences in column A with the ones in column B:

1 Shall we go out for dinner tonight?

2 Is 8.am OK?

3 Can I speak to Nam, please?

4 Let me help you do the house

5 What about watching video?

6 I’m bored

7 Let’s go to the cafeteria!

8 Would you like to listen to music?

a That’s very kind of you

b Why don’t you listen to music?

c Certainly

d Oh I’d love to I like pop music

e Good idea I’m hungry now

f I’d love to But I can’t go out at night

g Yes, that’s fine

h Oh, no I don’t really like watching it

1 -

2 -

3 -

4 -

5 -

6 -

7 -

8 -

V Give the correct form of the verbs in the blankets:

1 My father (listen) ……… to the radio last night

2 Mr Tan (not go) ……… to work yesterday

3 Mr Nam (not work) ……… last Sunday

4 My mother (arrive) ……… home 3 day ago

5 The students (not, be) ……… in class when I came

6 She (stay) ……… at home and did nothing

7 ……… you (watch) ……… a soccer match on TV last night?

8 Look! Mr Nam (talk) ……… to Ba He (teach) ……… math at this school in 1986

VI Complete the dialogue between you and Lan:

Lan: Would you like to go to the movie with me?

You:

Lan: What a pity! How about tomorrow night? You:

Lan: Is 6:00 OK? The film starts at 7:00 You:

Lan: I’ll pick you up See you tomorrow You:

VII Read the passage and answer the following questions: We moved into our new house on a warm September day It was not really a new house It was a hundred and four years old, but it was new to us The house had running water, gas and electricity but for some reasons, there was no electricity light in the kitchen It was some thing quite unexpected: a house with electricity but without a kitchen light It was quite puzzling because our kitchen was a large room, perhaps the largest in the house 1 When did they move into their new house?

2 Was the house new or old?

3 Was the house more than a century old?

4 Was there no electricity in the house?

5 Why did the writer feel puzzled?