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Unit 7: Lesson CWe’ve been friends for six years.

Vocabulary: More Personality Traitstrait = personal characteristic or quality

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fair

deci-sive

honest

mature

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disagreeable immature inconsiderate unfair

dishonest impatient indecisive unreliable

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Conversation: Time to say you’re sorry.

A. How does Lance describe Jill’s reaction?

B. What word does Lance use to describe himself?

Conversation: Time to say you’re sorry.

A. How does Lance describe Jill’s reaction?unfair and a little immature

B. What word does Lance use to describe himself?inconsiderate

Grammar

Present Perfect with for and since

Present Perfect Tense현재완료시제

How have You been?

Function

The Present Perfect Tense is used to describe an action that began in the past and continues to now. We also use the Present Perfect to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now. The exact time is not important.

She has seen that movie twenty times.I think I have met him once before.People have not traveled to Mars.Have you read the book yet?

Examples

Form

I/you/we/they + have + past participle

He/she/it + has + past participle

FormWhat are past participles???

Verb Forms: base form - simple past - past participle (refer to p.151)

Regular Verbs: like - liked - likedwork - worked - workedstudy - studied - studiedplay - played - played

Irregular verbs: eat - ate - eatendrive - drove - drivenhave - had - hadwrite - wrote - writtenbuy… choose… swim… take… wear

Form

I have been to France twice. Ruby has never broken a leg.

Have you ever eaten sushi?

Function

We often use since and for to say

how long the action has lasted.

“since” specifies the starting point “for” specifies the amount of time

To talk about an action which started in the past and continues up to now

Mary has loved chocolate since she was a little girl.I have had a cold for two weeks.She has been in England for six months.

Examples

He has been a doctor for more than ten years.We haven’t seen Louis since Friday.

Function

‘since’ We use 'since' to specify the starting point

in the past

“I've known Sam since 1992.”

“I haven’t spoken with her since last Monday.”

“She's been here since 2 p.m.”

‘for’ We use 'for' to specify an amount of time (minutes, hours, weeks, months, years)

“She’s known Sam for 10 years.” “We’ve been here for 3 hours.”

“I’ve had this cold for a week now.”

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