Have You Ever? Present Perfect

⚡️NEW⚡️This ESL Lesson Plan Present Perfect A2 helps learners practise the present perfect to talk about life experiences using have you ever…? questions. Through guided grammar explanations, controlled practice, reading, and speaking activities, students learn how to form the present perfect with have / has + past participle and understand when to use it to describe experiences without saying exactly when they happened. The lesson includes common regular and irregular verbs, contrast with the past simple, and personalised speaking tasks that encourage learners to talk about travel, food, and everyday experiences.

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Skills and outcomes:

• Forming the present perfect using have / has + past participle.

• Using have you ever…? to ask about experiences.

• Recognising common irregular past participles.

• Distinguishing between present perfect and past simple in context.

Lesson plan:

1. Warm-up: Have You Ever…?

   Students answer simple experience questions related to food, travel, and activities.

2. Grammar Presentation: Present Perfect

   Explanation of meaning and form with examples from the lesson.

3. Regular and Irregular Verbs

   Students review common past participles used in the present perfect.

4. Sentence Structure Practice

   Learners build affirmative, negative, and question forms.

5. Controlled Practice

   Students complete sentences using correct past participles.

6. Reading: Dialogue

   Students read a short conversation using present perfect and past simple.

7. Grammar Contras

   Focus on present perfect vs past simple with time expressions.

8. Error Correction

   Students identify and correct common present perfect mistakes.

9. Speaking Practice: Have You Ever…?

   Pair work asking and answering experience questions.

10. Writing Task

    Students write short sentences about their own life experiences.

Lesson length: 50 min

Level: A2

Category: Grammar