UNIT 3: COMMUNITY SERVICE
A CLOSER LOOK 2
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1.a.Listen again to part of the conversation.Underline the past simple tense or the present perfect.
Reporter: Have you ever done volunteer work?
Mai: Yes.I am a memberof Be a Buddy- a programme that helps street children.Last year we provided evening classes for fifty children.
Reporter:Wonderful! What else have you done?
Mai: We’ve asked people to donate books and clothes to the children.
1.a.Listen again to part of the conversation.Underline the past simple tense or the present perfect.
Reporter: Have you ever done volunteer work?
Mai: Yes.I am a memberof Be a Buddy- a programme that helps street children.Last year we provided evening classes for fifty children.
Reporter:Wonderful! What else have you done?
Mai: We’ve asked people to donate books and clothes to the children.
b.When do you use the past simple ? When do we use the present perfect? Can you think of the rule?
Past simple: We use the past simple for an action that started and finished in the past.We often use specific time expressions ( yesterday,last month, two years ago) with the past simple.
Ex: Last year we provided evening classes for fifty children.
Present perfect: We use the present perfect for an action that happened some time before now . The exact time is not important. We often use ever,never,so far,several times... with the present perfect.
Ex: We’ve asked people to donate books and clothes to the children .
2.Past simple or present perfect ? Put the verb in brackets into the correct form.
a.They (clean ) .......the beach one week ago.
b.They ( collect ) .....hundred of books so far.
c.I ( collect )...... stamps when I was a child.
d.She (fly).....to Da Nang many times but last year she (go) ...there by train.
e.You ever (see).... a lion ? No,but I (see)... a real elephant when we went to the zoo last month.
2.Past simple or present perfect ? Put the verb in brackets into the correct form.
a.They (clean ) .cleaned..the beach one week ago.
b.They ( collect ) .have collected..hundred of books so far.
c.I ( collect ).collected. stamps when I was a child.
d.She (fly)..has flied.to Da Nang many times but last year she (go) .went...there by train.
e.Have you ever (see) seen.. a lion ? No,but I (see).saw.. a real elephant when we went to the zoo last month.
3.Choose the best answer .
a............your homework yet? ( are you doing , have you done, do you do)
b.Yes,I ...it already.( am doing,have done,do)
c.Dickens... a lot of novels.( has written,writes,wrote).
d.Her mother ...three books .She is going to start the fourth one soon.(has written,writes,wrote).
e.I think I ...him before.( meet,met,have met)
f.Oh,yes ! Now I remember .I ...him when I was in Hoi An .He was our guide !( meet,met,have met)
3.Choose the best answer .
a............your homework yet? ( are you doing , have you done, do you do)
b.Yes,I ...it already.( am doing,have done,do)
c.Dickens... a lot of novels.( has written,writes,wrote).
d.Her mother ...three books .She is going to start the fourth one soon.(has written,writes,wrote).
e.I think I ...him before.( meet,met,have met)
f.Oh,yes ! Now I remember .I ...him when I was in Hoi An .He was our guide !( meet,met,have met)
4.With a partner, write sentences about yourself in the past simple and the present perfect.Use the words from the box below.
last December ,never, five years ago, already, when I was a child , so far ,yet....
Ex: She met Peter five years ago.
He has not finished his homework yet.
5.In pairs,student A looks at the fact sheet below and student B looks at the fact sheet on page 33 . Each student asks and aswer questions about the fact sheet to complete the information.
Ex:
Student A: What happened in 2011?
Student B: Be a Buddy was established in 2011. What did Be a Buddy do in 2012?
Student A:In 2012...
Student A

Practice: Look at the pictures and talk about the activities you did last week , you have done or seen recently .
Ex: I did my homework last night.
Or: She has just done her homework