1. My family
1. My family
Present Perfect
Describe members of your family – external description, also pay attention to character attributes, hobbies and current occupation.
Briefly name to us your other relatives. Choose one of them whom you know best and try to describe him or her in as such much detail as possible.
Present perfect
Form
Use
Read the text and try to find the verbs in present perfect:
My grandfather is 96 years old, and he has had a long and interesting life. He has travelled a lot, especially in the Far East. He has seen the Taj Mahal in India, and the Pyramids in Egypt. He has hunted lions in Africa, and has ridden a camel across the Sahara Desert. He says that the most beautiful place he has been to is Kathmandu in Nepal. He has met the Queen on several occasions. In 1959 he was a soldier in New Zealand when she came to visit, and in 1972 he went to a garden party at Buckingham Palace.
Make sentences about these people:
Alice is a journalist. Meet / a lot of famous people
Robert Swan is an explorer. Be / North Pole
Bill and Sophie are unemployed. Not have / a job for six month