HAND OUT №27 (27)
Discipline: English as a foreign language Credits - 2
Beginner level Practical lesson
Lexical theme: Have you ever tried?
Grammar: Present perfect
Teacher: assistant professor
Mangazina Zhanel Rauliyevna
Exercise 1. Look at the
picture. Work with a partner
and answer the questions below.
What is the person doing?
Have you ever been bungee
jumping? If you have, tell
us about it.
Is bungee jumping popular
in your country?
Exercise 2. Here are some
words from today’s article.
Work with a partner.
What will today’s article be
about? (You can use your
dictionary.)
a 5-year-old, bungee jumping,
banned, dangerous, father, world
record
Exercise 3. Here are some verbs taken from today’s article. Match the words with
their meanings.
1 to discover a) to find or learn something for the first time
2 to ban b) to give people information in the newspapers, on
television or the radio about jobs, things to buy or
something they can go to
3 to receive c) to finish doing something
4 to d) to get something that someone has given to you
complete
5 to advertise e) to say that something must stop or must not happen
Exercise 4. Read today’s article and fill in the gaps with the correct verbs from
the list below. Then translate the text.
discovered has banned received has completed
advertised
Five-year-old banned from bungee jumping
A French agency (1)___ _____ a 5-year-old boy from bungee jumping. Mike
Traut from Grenoble (2)___ already _____ 30 jumps.
A local child protection agency (3) ______ the boy’s liking for bungee
jumping after his father (4)______ for sponsors to support a jump that could have
put the boy in the record books.
The boy’s father, who holds a world record in bungee jumping, (5)______ a
letter warning him that he might spend two years in prison if he allowed children
under 16 to compete in such dangerous sports.
GRAMMAR COMMENT
have/has + the past participle.
- I have broken my pencil!- I can not write the
dictation.
Present Perfect (Simple)
- She has gone off to the woods. (= She is in the woods now.)
- Have you washed your hands? (= Are they clean now?)
Use the present perfect for general past experiences
Consolidation of grammar
Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb:
Base form Simple Past form Past Participle form
break broke broken
Be Was/were been
buy bought bought
know knew known
choose chose chosen
Do did done
· Make sentences like in examples.
1 Jill is in London. She has been in London since Monday.
2 I know George. I have known him for a long time.
3 They are married. They _______________ married since 1983.
4 Brian is ill. He _______________ ill for a week.
5 We live in this house. We _______________ here for ten years.
6 I know Tom very well. I _______________ him for a long time already.
PRONUNCIATION sentence stress
Listen and repeat this dialogue. Copy the rhythm.
A Have you been to Italy?
B Yes, I have. I’ve been to Venice
A Have you been to New York?
B No, I haven’t. I haven’t been to the USA.
Exercise 7. Complete the sentence with a preposition.
1 My name’s Carlos and I’m __Chile
2 Look __ the board at (2), in,
3 My father works___ IBM from, for
4 Our son is ___ school today
5 My parents live ___a small flat
Exercise 6. Look at the city names. Write
+, - , a?
sentence in the present perfect.
He + New York. He hasn’t been to New York
1 She+Moscow. ____________________________________________
2 They?Sydney. ____________________________________________
3 He+Rome. _______________________________________________
4 You? San Francisco. ______________________________________
Bungee jumping is very dangerous activity, but reading books is safe. What is your
favourite book? What was the last book which you read? Have you seen the film
based on this book?
Exercise 7. Listen to Carl, Linda and Sam [T. 27] phoning the program.
Correct the false information.
1 Carl thinks books are usually better than films.
2 He loved the Lord of the Rings films.
3 Linda says people read a lot.
4 She thinks people buy books after they see a film.
5 Sam thinks good books make bad films.
Exercise 8. Express your opinion. Do good books make good films?
1. Choose the correct variant: ____Paris or Rome?
a) Have you were
b) Have you been to
c) Have you be to
d) has
2. Choose the correct variant: I’ve read the book but I haven’t ___the
film.
a) see
b) saw
c) seen
d) seeing
3. Choose the correct variant: He passed his exams ___ .
a) succeed
b) success
c) successful
d) successfully
4. Choose the correct variant : _____she driven a Ferrari before?
a) did
b) has
c) do
d) done
Glossary
English Russian Kazakh
bungee jumping [ˈbʌndʒiː прыжок с тарзанки тарзанкадан секіру
ˈdʒʌmpɪŋ]
prison [ˈprɪzn] тюрьма түрме
to advertise [tə ædvətaɪz] рекламировать жарнамалау
protection agency [prə агенство по защите қорғау агенттігі
ˈtɛkʃən ˈeɪdʒənsɪ]
devil [ˈdevl] дьявол шайтан
fine [faɪn] штраф айыппұл
to complete [tə kəmˈpiːt] соревноваться жарысу
to support [ tə səˈpɔːt] поддерживать қолдау
to warn [tə wɔːn] предупреждать ескерту
to ban [tə bæn] запрещать тыйым салу
