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Present Perfect (Pretérito Perfecto Presente Perfecto)

Warm-up What is Present Perfect? - ¿Qué es pretérito perfecto?

Present Perfect - Pretérito Perfecto Formas regulares + Auxiliary Verb Helping Verb (Verbo Auxiliar) Past Participle (participio)

Auxiliary Verbs Helping Verb Now you need a helping verb to go with your past participles. What we use is the present tense of the verb “haber. ” he hablado has hablado ha hablado hemos hablado habéis hablado han hablado Use these verb forms with all your past participles: he comido, has querido, ha vuelto, hemos trabajado, etc.

R E V V roto (broken) escrito (written) visto (seen) vuelto (came back) Romper (to break) Escribir (to write) Ver (to see) Volver (to come back) M A C muerto (died) abierto (opened) cubierto (covered) Morir (to die) Abrir (to open) Cubrir (to cover) P H D D puesto (put) hecho (done/made) dicho (told/said) devuelto (returned) Poner (to put) Hacer (to do/make) Decir (to tell/say) Devolver (return)

Present Perfect Pretérito Perfecto – Presente Perfecto Indicative verbs express simple statement of a fact Auxiliary haber (have / has) He, has, ha, hemos, habéis, han + 1. ado, ido (endings) 2. REVV, MAC, PHDD Example: ¿Has viajado a España? Have you ever visited Spain?

Present Perfect in Recent Past

Present Perfect or Present Simple?

Past Participle All perfect tenses are made up of two parts: the auxiliary verb (helping verb) and the past participle of the main verb: helping verb past participle He has eaten. They have left. I have studied. helping verb past participle We have seen. You have finished. She has fallen.

This is how you form the past participle in Spanish: Drop the –ar and add –ado: hablar pensar llegar hablado pensado llegado nadar almorzar estar nadado almorzado estado Drop the –er or –ir and add –ido: comer leer asistir comido leído asistido poder querer venir podido querido venido

There are, of course, irregular past participles in Spanish as there are in English. R E V V M A C P H D D

Name: ________________ Date: ________ Present Perfect – translate the following sentences Period: ____ 1. I have seen the mountains of Perú. 1. He visto las montañas de Perú. 2. You have gone to Colombia. 2. Has ido a Colombia. 3. You have written a pretty poem. 3. Usted ha escrito un poema bonito 4. He has slept 10 hours. 4. Él ha dormido 10 horas. 5. She has said that she is a princess. 5. Ella ha dicho que es una princesa 6. We have returned to buy milk. 6. Hemos vuelto para comprar la leche. 7. You have sung very well. 7. Habéis cantado muy bien. 8. You have made a delicious cake. 8. Ustedes han hecho un pastel delicioso. 9. They have danced in 12 countries. 9. Ellos han bailado en 12 países. 10. They have heard the truth 10. Ellas han oído la verdad.

Name: ________________ Date: ________ Present Perfect – translate the following sentences 1. I have seen the mountains of Perú. 2. You have gone to Colombia. 3. You have written a pretty poem. 4. He has slept 10 hours. 5. She has said that she is a princess. 6. We have returned to buy milk. 7. You have sung very well. 8. You have made a delicious cake. 9. They have danced in 12 countries. 10. They have heard the truth Period: ____

Online Quiz • To to the following link: http: //www. spanishdict. com/topics/practice/35 • Use “pretérito perfecto” (present perfect) to complete this Quiz (haber + past participle) • Minimum grade accepted 85%

Pluscuamperfecto Pluperfect (Past Perfect)

Introduction • We use the pretérito pluscuamperfecto (past perfect) to describe actions that took place before a certain point in the past. • We always use the past perfect when we are telling a story and then want to look back at something that happened earlier. Present Perfect & Past Perfect (click here)

When to Use the Spanish Pluperfect and Preterit Perfect Tenses? • • The pluperfect and preterit tenses in Spanish have identical translations in English. So what’s the difference between the pluperfect and preterit tenses? The differences center less on conceptual distinctions and more on the contexts in which they’re used: The pluperfect is conversational and is used in everyday speech to describe a past action that happened prior to another past action. The more recent past action typically signals the end of the previous past action, as in the following examples: – Nosotros habíamos terminado con la cena antes de que ellos llegaron. We had finished dinner before they arrived. – Había practicado mucho para presentar esta pieza perfectamente. I had trained for a long time to be able to play the piece perfectly well. – Yo me había acostado después de mi programa favorito. I had gone to bed after my favorite program.

Preterite Perfect Tenses • Preterit perfect: The preterit perfect is used primarily in formal or literary Spanish. Here are some examples of the preterit perfect tense: – Una vez que hubimos visto toda la película, salimos del cine. Once we had seen all of the movie, we left theater. – Tan pronto como ellos hubieron terminado el trabajo, recibieron el dinero. As soon as they had finished the work, they received the money. – Tú apenas hubiste llegado, cuando la fiesta empezó. You had hardly arrived, when the party began.

PRACTICE • Exercises Present Perfect (click here)

Pluperfect (Past Perfect) (Pluscuamperfecto) The past perfect (also called the pluperfect and, in Spanish, the pluscuamperfecto), remember, is the past of the past and translates with “had” in English. ALL perfect tenses get a helping verb and a past participle: present perfect past perfect future perfect conditional perfect he has eaten he had eaten he will have eaten he would have eaten

As you saw, the present perfect tense has a set of helping verbs that come from “haber”: he has ha hemos habéis han The same is true of the past perfect. The helping verbs for the past perfect are the imperfect form of “haber”: había hablado habías hablado habíamos hablado habíais hablado habían hablado

Note that the endings on “haber” for the past perfect are the endings for the imperfect tense: habías habíamos habíais habían The present perfect is the PRESENT tense of “haber” + the past participle. The past perfect tense is the IMPERFECT (PAST) tense of “haber” + the past participle.

Uses of the Preterite • The preterite is used to express the following: – A single action or a series of actions in the past that are totally completed – An event that lasted for a specific period of time that has been completed and of which we usually know the beginning and the end. – The beginning or the end of an action in the past.

TEST REVIEW PAST TENSE

Uses of the Imperfect • The imperfect is used to express the following: – An action that went on in the past for a period of time that is no specific – A habitual action. The period of time is not specific. One of the best ways to recognize this use is to think of English I used to, or I would. – An action that was in progress when another took place or interrupt it – Time, Age, Weather, Emotions or State of Being

Uses of the Present Perfect • The present perfect is used in Spanish the same way as it is used in English. It is used to express what has happened closer to present (near future) or that the action continued in the (near future) • The auxiliary Haber + Past Participle are never separated • The Negative Form (NO), Direct Object Pronouns (DOP’s) and the Reflexive Pronouns (RP) must be writteh before the auxiliary + past participle of the verb

El tren ha llegado en este momento algu na v ya, ez, nun des solo ca de, , sin para emb argo recie n últim temente ame , has nte ta e l mo men to Ella no ha viajado por tren Ellas no han viajado por tren ¿Qué han aprendido?

Uses of the Pluperfect – Past Perfect Pluscuamperfecto • The “Pluscuamperfecto” is used to indicate events that precede another in the past. It is used to express what had happened. • The pluperfect is conversational and is used in everyday speech to describe a past action that happened prior to another past action. The more recent past action typically signals the end of the previous past action, as in the following examples: – Nosotros habíamos terminado con la cena antes de que ellos llegaron. We had finished dinner before they arrived. – Había practicado mucho para presentar esta pieza perfectamente. I had trained for a long time to be able to play the piece perfectly well. – Yo me había acostado después de mi programa favorito. I had gone to bed after my favorite program. •

See the following Link “Gramatica Intensiva” (click here)

Song • What to do: Listen the music Lyrics (click here) • Translate the sentences according if it preterite, imperfect, present perfect.

Online Resources • http: //roble. pntic. mec. es/acid 0002/index_a rchivos/Gramatica/pluscuamperfecto_indic ativo. htm • http: //reglasespanol. about. com/od/conj/a/ Modo-Indicativo. htm • https: //espanol. lingolia. com/en/grammar/te nses/preterito-pluscuamperfecto