V. Ask and answer the following questions. In the last 5-10 years:

1. which cities / foreign countries have you visited?

2. how many times have you changed school / university?

3. how many times have you moved house?

4. what exams haven’t you passed?

5. which important skills have you learnt?

6. which new sports or interests have you taken up?

7. what other important things have happened to you?

VI. The police have investigated the case and prepared it for the trial. What has been done? Make up sentences using the present perfect passive.

1. The witnesses _______________________________________________________ (ask).

2. The scene of the crime ____________________________________________ (examine).

3. The evidence _______________________________________________________ (find).

4. The photo fit ______________________________________________________ (make).

5. The suspect ______________________________________ (apprehend and interrogate).

6. His accomplice ____________________________________________________ (arrest).

7. The fingerprints ____________________________________________________ (take).

8. All the necessary papers ______________________________________________ (file).

9. The charges _______________________________________________________ (bring).

10. The offenders __________________________________________________ (deny) bail.

11. The date of the trial _______________________________________________ (appoint).

12. The jury _________________________________________________________ (select).

So, everything is ready for the trial.

VII. Compare the use of the present perfect and the past simple. Put in the verbs in the correct form.

Tom: (1) _____________________ (you / hear) the news about David?

Harriet: No. (2) _______________________ (what / happen)?

Tom: (3) ____________________ (he / have) an accident. He was walking down some steps. __________________ (he / fall) and (4)________________ (break) his leg.

Harriet: Oh, how awful! When (5)___________________ (it / happen)?

Tom: Yesterday afternoon. Melanie (6) ______________ (tell) me about it last night.

Harriet: Last night! (7)_______________________ (you / know) about it last night and (8) ___________________ (you / not / tell) me!

Tom: Well, (9)_______________________ (I / not / see) you last night. And (10) ______________________ (I / not / see) you today, until now.

Harriet: I hope he’s all right. (11)___________________ (he / have) a lot of accidents, you know. (12) __________________ (he / do) the same thing about two years ago.

VIII. Comparison: present perfect and past simple.

A. Robbie left school in 1995. He is remembering his old school friends. Complete the sentences using the verbs below (in the past simple).

decide • not enjoy • not go • have • like • spend • study • want • be • go

Andywas always interested in business – he always (1) __________ lots of brilliant ideas for making money and his ambition (2) ____________ to be a millionaire by the age of twenty-five!

Lucy was a film addict – she sometimes (3) ____________ to the cinema four or five times a week. She (4) _______________ to become a famous film actress like her heroine, Halle Berry.

Edward was always very quiet, and he (5) ____________ out very much – he (6) ___________ most of his time at home in his bedroom, playing games on his computer.

Kate (7) ____________ for at least three hours every evening – when she was eighteen years old, she (8) ____________ to become an ecologist and help save the planet.

Hannah (9) ______________ school at all – for some reason, the only object she (10) _______________ was geography!

B. Robbie contacted his old friends through the Old Friends website. Read the text, put in the verbs in the present perfect.

During the last ten years, Andy ____________ (have) ten different jobs: he ___________ (work) in the import-export business, he ____________ (be) an estate agent, and now he _____________ (just / start) his own company which sells mobile phones – but he _____________ (not / make) a £1 million yet.

Edward ____________ (move) to the United States, where he now works designing computer games. His most popular game – Death Trap – ________________ (already / sell) over ten million copies, and ____________ (make) him very rich! He isn’t married, and in fact he ______________ (never / have) a girlfriend, and he still spends most of his time playing computer games in his bedroom.

Lucy is an actress and a part-time waitress. In the last few years, she ______________ (appear) in several plays and a couple of TV commercials – but there _____________ (be) no call from Hollywood yet!

Since leaving the university with a brilliant degree, Kate ___________ (work) for Greenpeace and other similar organizations, first as a volunteer and now as a manager. She ____________ (just / have) her first baby.

In the last ten years, Hannah _______________ (be married) three times, and ____________ (live) in Italy, Egypt, France and Australia. At present, she is running a small restaurant and bar on the Greek island of Kos with her third husband, Nikos.

Say 2 things that each person has / hasn’t done.

Whose experiences in the last ten years are: a) the most surprising; b) the most interesting?

C. Think of a group of people that you knew 5-10 years ago (for example, schoolmates, neighbours, relatives). Write a paragraph about what has happened to them.