Answer for exercise 5
The solution for exercise 5 in chapter 2.1 - Making a difference of Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book by Frances Eales and Steve Oakes
Question
- Work in pairs and check what you know. Underline the correct alternative. Then check in the article. In which sentence are both forms possible?
- All the present perfect examples in Exercise 5A link the past to the present in some way. Work in pairs and discuss how.
- Work in pairs and complete the rules for choosing between the present perfect simple and the present perfect continuous. Give examples from the sentences in Exercise 5A.
Answer
a)
- 've been doing (used in the text, although 've done is also possible)
- has cleaned
- has always loved
- has turned
- 've already raised
- 've been dancing
b)
- Sentences 1, 2 and 3 → The perfect is used here to describe activities or states which started in the past and continue up to now.
- Sentences 4 and 5 → The perfect is used to describe an event / action in the past which is completed although we don't know when. The link is that we are interested now in the result this has had.
- Sentence 6 → The perfect is used because the activity has only just finished and we can see the result now.
c)
- Rule 1 → continuous, e.g. Sentences 1 and 6
- Rule 2 → simple, e.g. Sentences 2, 4 and 5
- Rule 3 → simple, e.g. Sentences 2 and 5
- Rule 4 → simple, continuous, e.g. Sentence 1
- Rule 5 → simple, e.g. Sentence 3