UNIT 3: PATH TO SUCCESS Focus on • Career Prospects • Present Perfect Simple • just/already/yet/still • any more/any longer/no longer • since/for/ago • Present Perfect Simple vs. Past Simple • Further practice: Articles Present perfect simple Usage: • to talk about something which started in the past and continues up to the pres-
ent —with time references like before (now), never, ever, up till now, so far She's seen this film be fore. I've never been there. Have you ever eaten Chinese food? He's received 30 cards up to now. I've never tasted papaya so far. • with since/for We haven't been there since we were young. She's worked in London for six months.
• with today, this morning, this afternoon, etc. when these periods of
time are not finished at the time of speaking
I've written four letters this morning. (It is still "this morning".) • when the result of a past action is connected to the present
Someone's broken the window. (The window is now broken.) We've cleaned the flat. (The flat is now clean.) • to describe personal experience (with superlatives or ordinals) She's met a lot of interesting people. (= in her life, up to now) He is the most intelligent person I've met. This is the third time we've complained.
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• to announce "news"
I've found a new job. • to describe actions which happened at an unspecified time in the past
—with no time reference at all
He has passed his driving test. • with references to recent time, like just, recently, lately, already, still, yet I
