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Healthy habits and experience

Lessons 10–11 · 2 lessons · S. Khan, L. Kamalova, L. Jurayev. Teens’ English 7 (English, Grade 7). “O‘zbekiston” Publishing House, Tashkent, 2019
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Have you ever ... ?

Textbook: p. 17
GoalAsking about and describing experience with the Present Perfect: “Have you ever ... ?”
New words
ever · hech qachon (so‘roqda)just · hozirginaalready · allaqachonyet · hali (inkorda)
Explanation

The Present Perfect is have/has + the third form of the verb (past participle). With regular verbs it ends in -ed: visit – visited. Irregular ones are different: see – seen, go – been/gone, break – broken, write – written, do – done, eat – eaten. We ask about experience: “Have you ever ridden a camel?” — “Yes, I have.” / “No, I haven’t.” If we give a definite time (When? yesterday?), we use the Past Simple: “Yes, I have. I rode one in Nurata last year.” Just means a moment ago, already means earlier than expected (in the middle), and yet is used in questions and negatives (at the end): “I haven’t done my homework yet.” With he, she, it we use has: “She has seen a snake.”

Worked examples
— Have you ever had flu? — Yes, I have. — When did you have it? — Last winter. I stayed in bed for a week.
Sardor has just come home. He has already done his maths homework. He hasn’t eaten his dinner yet.
Class activity

“Find someone who”: walk around and ask “Have you ever ... ?” questions (ride a horse, break a bone, see a snake) to find a classmate with the same experience.

Practice
1
Write the third form: see, write, eat.
2
Make a question: you / ever / break / a bone
3
Fill in: Look, the plate is empty! Somebody ___ the cake. (eat)
4
Why do we answer “When did it happen?” in the Past Simple?