Intro Student One Student Two

  • Students work in pairs and open the following pages.
  • Students ask and answer the questions provided using the past simple or present perfect.
  • The grammar tense for the partner's answer is provided, so students should correct each other's answers if the incorrect tense is used.
  1. What kind of job did your grandfather have? (Partner should answer in the past tense)
  2. What have you brought to school today? (Partner should answer in the present perfect)
  3. Have you eaten out at all this week? What about last week? (First answer should be present perfect, second should be past tense)
  4. What is the most difficult thing you have ever cooked? (Ask for details - partner should answer in the past tense)
  5. What did you recently eat that you didn't like? (Partner should answer in the past tense)
  6. Have you been wearing that shirt all week? (Partner should use present perfect continuous to correct the duration)
  7. What have you eaten today? (Partner should answer in the present perfect)
  8. Do you drink coffee?
    1. If "yes": How long have you been drinking coffee?
    2. If "no": When was the last time you drank coffee?
  1. Have you drunk any wine in the last month? (Partner's answer should be in the present perfect)
    1. If "yes": What kind of wine did you drink? (Partner's answer should be in the past tense)
    2. If "no": How long has it been since you last drank wine? (Partner's answer should be in the present perfect: "It's been...since I last drank wine.")
  2. Is the classroom door open or closed? Why? (Partner's answer should be in the present perfect to explain the present result)
  3. What did you eat for dinner? (Partner's answer should be in the past tense)
  4. What did you love learning about when you were a child? (Partner's answer should be in the past tense)
  5. Have you done your homework for the next class yet? (Partner's answer should be in the present perfect)
  6. How long have you been studying at this school? (Partner's answer should be in the present perfect)
  7. Have you been doing any exercise lately? (Partner's answer should be in the present perfect)
  8. What is the most exciting thing you have done recently? (Partner's answer should be in either the past tense or present perfect)
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