Perfect tenses

1. What do "perfect" tenses imply?

• An uncertain action.

• Finished actions.

• Completed actions.

• Certain actions.

2. What do we use past perfect for?

• Talk about past recent events.

• Describe actions that have finished before another future action.

• Talk about future experiences.

• Describe actions that have finished before another past action.

3. Complete this sentence by using future perfect tense:

I _________ (finish) my studies before I start my new job.

4. What do we use present perfect for?

• Talk about past recent events.

• Describe actions that have finished before another future action.

• Talk about future experiences.

• Describe actions that have finished before another past action.

5. What do you think is the main difference between present, past, and future perfect?

"she has lived here all her life"

This sentence is written in ________ tense.

7. What do we use future perfect for?

• Talk about past recent events.

• Describe actions that have finished before another present action.

• Emphasize the result of an activity in the past.

• Talk about an action that will be completed before another event takes place.

8. We won't have become fluent in Spanish by the time we leave for Mexico next month.

This sentence is written in _______ tense.

9. we use perfect tenses when...

• We want to emphasize actions that have finished before other actions.

• We want to talk about completed actions in the present, past or future.

• We want to tell people conditions and cause and effect relationships.

• We don't know who did the action and we want to emphasize in the object.

10. By the time I will have graduated, she won't have ended university _____

• before

• after

• yet

• so