Lesson 57

Present Perfect Tenses + Verb Review

Lesson contents:

- Present Perfect and Present Perfect
   Continuous
- Vocabulary:
   The other uses of "juggle"
   "Get" # 99: How do you get to work?
   Language Barrier
   travelled and traveled (both correct)
- Grammar for the Present Perfect
   and Present Perfect Continuous
- Superlative: the most comfortable

Always watch the video without subtitles first in order to train your ears! It's a good idea to watch several times until you feel the "music", before watching the version with subtitles. Your pronunciation will be much better if you follow this rule.

Exercises for this lesson:

• Juggling the Present Continuous +
  Present Perfect Continuous
• Present Perfect Continuous Grammar
• Present Simple Verb Review
• Present Simple & Adverb Placement
• The Present Perfect: Where have they been?
• Simple Past + The Language Barrier
• Past Simple Review + a Superlative
• Meet My Favorite Interviewee!
• Minda is a bit rare, speaking
  spontaneously and clearly
• "How long...take?" and
  "How do you get to...?"
• She takes an express bus to work.
• Minda answers an indiscreet question
• Have been doing Vs. Did
• The question and the answer
  in the Present Perfect
• "I'm doing" = "going to do"
• Ask the question by clicking
• The Complete Minda clip

How to do the lessons:

1. Watch the video without subtitles.
2. Do all the Exercises.
3. Come back to this page.
4. Watch the video with English Subtitles. Use the Pause button. People speak fast!

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Three Interviews using the Present Perfect Tenses + Verb Review
Watch this video, then click on Exercise 1

Same video with Precise Subtitles
Do the exercises before watching this video with subtitles.

Real English®

Teachers:

There are 3 interviews in this lesson. First we meet Betty Jean, an American living in Dublin. She juggles to make a bit of money, and apparently to have fun. She uses the Present Perfect, speaking to the interviewer while juggling. Then we meet Marie-Louise and Al, Americans from a small town in Kentucky. They have traveled to 7 countries and they prefer Great Britain because it's the "most comfortable" of the countries they have visited, pointing out that there is no language barrier. This reminded me of the quotation that Britain and America are "two nations divided by a common language." The barrier is invisible for Marie-Louise and Al, when compared to the other languages they tried to deal with.

The longest interview is with Minda. She's one of my favorite interviewees because she is so very gracious and relaxed, and speaks both naturally and clearly. Blaise Corrigan, the interviewer, noticed this right away, and asked her many questions in order to review many verb tenses while hitting upon the Present Perfect in 2 instances.