Past Perfect or Past Simple

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Celebrating Yuri Gagarin's First Orbit

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Maya Plisetskaya dancing Dying Swan

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Performing in Tokyo in the 1986 Maya Plisetskaya and Soviet Stars tour.
Maya Plisetskaya, age 61, dances Dying Swan


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Clip with Maya Plisetskaya and swans, and her dancing The Dying Swan, Lenfilm 1959. Music by Camille Saint-Saëns. Choreography by Mikhail Fokine 1907.
Умирающий лебедь - Майя Плисецкая.

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State Your Opinion

You have to be quick - you have 5 seconds to state your preference/like/dislike/opinion and use the correct 3 person countable/uncountable form.


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Present perfect for experience

Present perfect for experience | Johnny Grammar | Learn English | British Council

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We use the present perfect to talk about experiences in the past up to the moment of speaking. The present perfect is subject + auxiliary 'have' + past participle. We often shorten 'have/has' to ''ve/'s'.

I've eaten in this restaurant many times.
To make the negative we add 'not' between the auxiliary 'have'and the past participle.

I haven't had it before.
The question form is auxiliary 'have/has' + past participle.

Have you tried this vegetable dish?

Present Perfect

The Present Perfect tense explained through examples in songs.

By jjenglishlessons
"The present perfect is a difficult yet important tense in the English language. Hopefully this video will help clear some things up regarding usage and construction. And we hope you enjoy the music!"