Top 5 ESL present perfect activities | Games and activities (PP verb tense) for English learners

Want more information about Present Perfect Activities? Check out this blog post which contains more information, including some present perfect examples: https://www.eslactivity.org/esl-present-perfect/ Are you looking for some ESL present perfect games and activities to try out with your students today? Then you’re most definitely in the right place. Keep on watching for our top five p.p. activities for English learners, along with some present perfect questions and a quick primer on what the present perfect actually is. We have a separate video explaining the Present Perfect Tense is right here: https://youtu.be/ntSosNLL3SU Want to find 39 No-Prep/Low-Prep ESL Grammar Activities for Adults? Check out my book: hhttps://amzn.to/3sPqMiP https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #esl #teachingEnglish #teachingenglishwithjackie #presentperfecttense Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:13 Present perfect examples 0:40 Surveys 1:18 Board games 1:54 Dictation 2:22 Timelines 2:47 Dialogue substitution 3:19 Conclusion Transcript for ESL present perfect games and activites: Hi everybody, this is Jackie from eslactivity.org. So today I'm going to talk about the top five ESL present perfect activities. Some examples of the present perfect are: I've gone bungee jumping. That means I went bungee jumping at some time in the past but the time is unknown. You can also use it to describe something that began in the past and continues until now. For example, she studied for hours. She started studying at some time in the past and is still studying until the present. All right, so here are the top five ESL present perfect activities you can try out with your students. Okay, so the first activity that you can use are surveys. This is the ultimate way to combine the present perfect with the simple past. You can fill up your survey sheet with present perfect questions. Have you been bungy jumping? Have you read Harry Potter? That kind of thing. Then students will ask their classmates and if a student says yes, yes I have been bungee jumping, the student can switch to a follow-up question in the simple past. When did you go bungee jumping? Oh, I went bungee jumping last year, and then I get students to take some very brief notes, just with a name and then their follow-up answer. The second activity for the present perfect is board games. You can fill up your board game grid with some special squares like go back, to trade places with the person on your left, have a rest, etc. but the rest of the squares you can fill up with present perfect questions. When a student lands on that square they have to answer that question and then give one follow-up detail. So for example, Have you been bungee jumping? Yes, I have. I went last year or if they answer no, I haven't then they could say something like but I'm interested in going, or wow that sounds really scary, I never want to go bungee jumping, something like that. The third one is dictation. So dictation I know is a little bit of an old-school activity but it actually has a lot of value. I would simply say the question, Have you been bungee jumping? Students have to write it down in their notebooks and then they can answer the question with yes I have, or no I haven't. Conversely, you could give some answers, yes I have no I haven't, and students write them down and then they can make up a true question for themselves. The fourth activity is timelines. This isn't really necessarily an activity, however, it's really useful for explaining the present perfect. So we use it for two situations to describe an indefinite time in the past: I've been bungee jumping or something that began in the past and continues up until the present. So I love using timelines to kind of explain the subtle difference between those two things and then how to actually use the present perfect. The fifth one is dialogue substitution. So maybe your students are kind of like mine and if I give them a dialogue to read with a partner, you can often find them in the textbooks the students just kind of blow through them and they don't actually pay any attention to what they've read. So I'll say something like, has bob been bungy jumping? I don't know! But they just read a whole dialogue about it so the way that I kind of combat this is I remove some of the key words from the dialogue. -------- Tags: esl, teaching esl, English, learning English, English teacher, classroom tips, TEFL, efl, tefl, teaching English, teaching teenagers English, teaching kids English, easy lesson plan, simple lesson plan, esl ideas, games for everyone, Study, study tips, TEFL Game, TEFL activity, Learning games, Learning activity, Present perfect