Language Tree SB 6

Unit 5

2 Complete these sentences with has or have . 1 Mr. Sandman _______ asked us to do a traffic survey.

2 Every bus _______ been full this morning. 3 How many cars _______ passed the school? 4 I _______ not seen any buses this morning. 5 That police car _______ driven by twice. 6 _______ the number seven bus gone by? 7 Clio and I _______ counted four bicycles. 8 No one _______ come past on a tandem.

3 Complete these sentences using the present perfect tense.

Example: We have decided (decide) to raise money to develop music in our school.

1 Miss James and Mr. Dunn ____________ (arrange) a concert. 2 We ____________ (write) letters to the parents. 3 Everyone ____________ (take) a letter home. 4 Clive ____________ (bring) his pushcart to school. 5 He ____________ (speak) to the Principal about charging for rides. 6 My class ____________ (make) cakes to sell after school. 7 The school ____________ (choose) the instruments it wants to buy. 8 The Principal ____________ (has / had) already ____________ (buy) six recorders.

Have you seen ___________?

Have you been to ___________?

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Use the present perfect tense. • Ask your partner two questions. • Answer your partner’s questions in the present perfect.

Past perfect tense

The past perfect tense tells us what happened before another action in the past: past perfect

Before the holidays ended Clive had made a lot of money. The past perfect uses the helping verb had + the past participle .

5 Find three examples of the past perfect in paragraph 1 of the story on pages 64–65.

DA  Allow students to write answers to fewer questions according to ability. •  Exercise 4, extension: Ask students to write sentences about what their partner told them, e.g. Rhiana has not been to the new store.

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