The REAL Meaning Of The Present Perfect Tense - English Fluency Trigger

so if this is a normal English lesson I would  say okay the present perfect is this uh and I'm  

going to give you some examples of the present  perfect and hopefully you remember it but this  

is not the way I teach because people don't  really learn very well this way so again uh  

we're going to we're going to take a step  back and I'm going to give you a trigger  

and the trigger really is like this whole  series of things and we will come back to  

the present perfect after that but the point  here is to help you understand something to  

eliminate the doubt you have because that's  when you speak okay so let's start up here  

uh and we're just going to introduce ourselves  here I have what do I have I have a white shirt  

a white shirt I have a white shirt okay nice  and easy oh I have what's this I have a blue

marker blue marker uh I could have let's  see what else do I have I have some

water some water okay now I want to make sure  everybody is following along because if if I  

keep going we should be able to get you all  the way to the present perfect and help you  

understand it very well uh without me teaching  you a lot of grammar but just by understanding  

it removing the doubt about these things you  should feel more confident about that but I  

want to stop right here does anyone have any  questions so far I want to make sure there's  

no doubt about any of this all right should  be very basic English people understand this  

already but really I really want to make sure  you know because uh part of the way you can  

do this by yourself is to understand grammar  try to make it more simple to see where you're  

getting stuck because there's usually some  place where people get stuck uh and uh I I  

can't maybe explain something I don't really  understand the grammar and that's why I don't  

feel confident using it all right this should  be clear uh let's take it a step further so  

you could probably do more like the different  things I have now we're going to take it let's  

let's just call this level one uh level two over  here we're going to talk about other things I  

have so I have and I'm going to talk about  things like about myself say idea I have a

nose pretty easy I have a nose I have two eyes or  I have two uh we call this color hazel it's kind  

of a mix of brown and green two hazel eyes I have  a nose I have two eyes anything else what else do  

I have see if anybody out there watching what  else do I have anything else you can describe  

about me I have what should be very easy go  ahead use use use the English you know you  

should feel confident about this hopefully  everybody watching this knows these uh basic  

kind of sentences and they can describe things  like this about themselves okay very simple so  

I have a nose I have two eyes no one really  anyone uh I have uh let's see a mouth very  

easy two ears I have hair oh my head says you have  knowledge oh something you can't see look at that

interesting knowledge pretty easy I have a mouth  okay now remember we we want to make sure we get  

this correct I've seen some mistakes you  have a mouth Yes I also have freshly cut  

hair you would put a dash between freshly and  cut because we're connecting that freshly cut  

hair all right so this is again we really  want to make sure that we understand these  

things that we're using all of these correctly  all right so I have yeah so I have two legs I  

have eyebrows so if it's one thing you can  say I have like one mouth or a mouth I have  

a mouth I have two ears I have a head I have  a body I have shoulders okay so we can talk  

about like other things outside of us I have a  dog I have a house or we can talk about things  

about ourselves as well we have teeth another  good example hands very good all right pretty  

simple now we're going to extend this a little  bit further to level three and we're going to  

talk about experiences okay experiences so I  have let's see I have what have I done I have a

played

baseball I have played baseball again it's  the same thing we're just talking about an  

experience that's part of us okay so just like  my nose is a part of me my eyes is they are a  

part of me my mouth the knowledge I have that's  all a part of me my experience is I'll just put  

exp over here for experience my experience  is the things I have done are a part of me  

also okay I want to make this very clear because  this is a complicated thing for many people but  

it doesn't yes so I have studied another another  good example so I have studied whatever I have  

studied marketing uh I have uh studied piano  okay so children uh would be up here like I  

have children but it's all the same thing so you  can have something like around yourself what I I  

have uploaded look at that so I have uploaded more  than 600 videos good example I uploaded right so  

I have and this is the thing so when people  ask me what's the difference between just an  

activity or something you did in the past and  the like using this example this is it's still  

a part of me there's a connection between what  happened in the past and right now so I played  

basketball or I played baseball or I studied  something or I uploaded something I could be  

talking about if I draw like a a timeline like  this I could be talking about some time in the  

past so here is now make sure that fits so I did  something let's say I played baseball here okay  

so this was H 10 years ago so this is 10 years in  the past so I played baseball if I'm just talking  

about that just talking about the experience we  can just use the simple past I played baseball  

but I have played means we're connecting that  with the present it's part of me now it's part  

of my experience just like my eyes are part of  me so you can see my eyes you can't really see  

my experiences but I can tell you about that  okay so I have and what are the things I have  

done okay so I have a been so after we take  usually if I'm if I'm teaching something like  

this I want to do uh begin with okay we got nice  Ed Ed you can recognize a pattern now we want to  

make it just a little bit more complex by adding  something else like I have seen or I have done  

or I have been and as you recognize the patterns  you're thinking oh look at that it's really just  

talking about who you are as an experience so I'm  not talking about the thing I'm talking about me  

I have this thing I have this experience so  you could make this a longer sentence I have  

the experience of playing something but we just  say it in a shorter way I have played very simple