Identifying communicative aims

LANGUAGE WORKOUT

•  Ask students to complete the Language box. 

Confident students can complete first and then 

check, while others can look back at exercise 2 

and then complete. 

•  Students turn to page 117 of the Language File 

to check their answers.

Answers

ever   ever   never   never 

ever; never 

present perfect   past simple 

•  Highlight that:

– ever means ‘any time in the past until now’

– never with the present perfect means ‘not 

once in the past until now’

– ‘an indefinite time in the past’ means you do 

not know exactly when it happened

•  With a confident class, point out that the choice 

between the past simple or present perfect often 

depends on how we see the action. If we think it 

is related to now we use the present perfect. If 

we think it is something finished and in the past 

we use the past simple, even if the time is not 

mentioned. Compare I’ve had skiing lessons but 

I’ve never been on a skiing holiday (I might have 

more skiing lessons in the future), My mother 

had skiing lessons but she didn’t enjoy them. 

(She probably won’t have any more lessons).

•  Drill the examples in chorus and individually for 

pronunciation.