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Have You Ever? Present Perfect

Jan 12
1 min read

Updated: Sep 30

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50 min

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23 slides

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kids &teens

ESL Lesson Plan Present Perfect A2 helps learners practise the present perfect to talk about life experiences using have you ever…? questions. 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.


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.


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