Many students find it difficult to see the difference between the Past Simple and the Present Perfect. The next few days in class we will focus on the correct use of both tenses, so important in the English language. Here you have a couple of documents that will help you to see the different notions and functions that we can express with these two tenses.
We use the Present perfect to talk about life experiences, duration lasting until the present, completion and recent events...
We use the Past simple to express isolated actions in the past, duration in the past, past habits and routines...
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