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UNIT 13 · Intermediate · B1–B2

Present Perfect vs Past Simple“I have done / I did” — 44 interactive questions

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📖 Grammar Reference — Present Perfect vs Past Simple

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What you’ll learnhave done vs did · finished time vs now

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A Two tenses, two jobs

Past simple finished	A finished action at a finished time: I lost* my keys yesterday.*
Present perfect now	The past connected to now (result, experience, news): I have lost* my keys.* (= I can’t find them now)

💡 Ask yourself: does the time matter, or does the result matter? When the time is over and stated, use the past simple.

B Time words are the signal

Past simple yesterday · last week · in 2010 · two days ago · when…?

Present perfect today · this week · ever / never · just / already / yet · so far

⚠️ A finished time word (yesterday, last year, ago, in 2019) needs the past simple — never the present perfect.

C Questions: When…? vs Have you ever…?

When did you arrive? (asking the finished time → past simple)

Have you ever been to Japan? (asking about your life up to now → present perfect)

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Remember — have done = past + now (no finished time) · did = a finished time you can name. If you can add yesterday / last year / ago, use the past simple.

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