Cover of the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 12.2 - Afraid of nothing for the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Write the questions in full. Use the present perfect and ever.
  2. Look at the conversation. Which verb forms are used? Why?

Answer

a)

  1. Have you ever seen Titanic?
  2. Have you ever broken your arm?
  3. Have you ever eaten anything unusual?
  4. Have you ever swum in a river?
  5. Have you ever made anything to wear?
  6. Have you ever been to a really hot or cold country? 

b)

  • The present perfect and the past simple are used.
  • The present perfect is used to start a conversation / introduce a topic.
  • The past simple is used for follow-up questions, when the speaker says (or understands) the time.