Teacher notes for this lesson. Two sides of A4, not for pupils.Mild sheetMedium sheetSpicy sheetAnswers
Teacher notes · not for pupils Grammar sequence

Have You Done It Yet?

The present perfect

Lesson 8 of 14
Year 3 45 min

Objective

Form the present perfect with have/has + past participle, use it in contrast to the simple past, and choose the simple past whenever a finished time is named.

Board title: The present perfect  ·  Say it: “Today we're using have and has to say what's done by now, I have finished, and keeping the plain past for things with a named time, like yesterday.”

Curriculum

  • Y3: use the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense
  • Y2: simple past, regular and irregular (revisited)
  • Terminology: present perfect, past participle
  • STA domain: G4.1d

Success criteria

  • build the present perfect with have or has
  • choose the participle: gone, eaten, seen, done
  • use the simple past when I say when it happened
  • match have or has to the person doing it

Key vocabulary

present perfect · past participle · simple past · have · has

Run of the lesson

5 min
Starter: I finished at six v I have finished on the board. Which one tells you when? Both are correct English, so do not resolve it, the difference is the job each does.
9 min
Model with the café, spoken as one breath: have cooked, has baked, have eaten. Chant the trios until the wrong one sounds wrong: go-went-gone, eat-ate-eaten, see-saw-seen, do-did-done. Then circle a time phrase, yesterday, at six, on Monday, and drop the have: the simple past takes over. Model that twice.
8 min
What's Cooking? on the whiteboard, Spicy band, the 'done already' level, its cue is the exact language of today. Class votes before you tap; say have or has plus the participle aloud each round.
6 min
The trap, the commonest error in the room: I have went to the market. Went never follows have. Then the four votes, ask has or have and which form follows it before each reveal (answers: a-left, b-right, c-right, d-left).
14 min
Worksheet, independent. Circulate on Task 3 and listen for bare done and seen, do not call it lazy, call it a missing have and have them put it back in, or swap to did and saw.
3 min
Plenary: two children read a Task 3 sentence, class calls done-by-now or named-time. Then the class quiz: find both mistakes in Polpetta's news, I have went to the market and I done all the shopping.
On screenSPAGhetti → What's Cooking? → Spicy. One screen only; no pupil devices needed. The 'done already' level is today's content; ~8 items in 10 minutes with discussion.
SPAGhetti · Grammar sequence · Lesson 8 of 14  ·  Teacher notes 1 of 2
Teacher notes · not for pupils Have You Done It Yet? · side 2

On the day

If the tech failsSkip the game entirely. Task 1 is the same content on paper, read the four pairs aloud and vote with thumbs. The lesson still works.
If they're on devicesLesson code PRFTC (on the worksheet footer) opens the right game, locks the café until 10 items are done, then unlocks it as the reward.

Misconceptions to watch for

I have went. The simple past pressed into service after have. Have takes the participle: gone, eaten, seen, done. Chant the trios until the wrong one sounds wrong.

He have / they has. Agreement slips once attention moves to the participle. Has for one, he, she, it, Polpetta; have for the rest. A quick oral drill fixes most of it.

Bare done and seen: I done it, I seen him. The participle with the have stripped away, very common in speech. Do not call it lazy; call it a missing have and put it back: I have done it, or I did it.

Present perfect with a finished-time phrase. I have seen him yesterday. Yesterday closes the time, so the simple past takes over: I saw him yesterday. The rule of thumb: if you say when, drop the have.

The three sheets

Same four tasks on every sheet, in the same order, with the same look. Only the demand changes. Print the one each child needs; nobody does two.

Mild

Same four tasks as every other sheet, same order, same look, the demand is lower, not the dignity. Shorter passage in Task 2, and in Task 3 a word bank or words to tick, with printed sentence starters. Give it to anyone who needs a way in, and expect them to move up.

Medium

The core sheet. Give this to most of the class. No word bank; in Task 3 pupils choose from a few close options, then use one in a sentence of their own.

Spicy

Same four tasks, more demand, a longer passage with a subtler error, and Task 3 asks for two things at once. Not extra work; harder work. Nobody should be doing Spicy and the Medium sheet.

Adaptive teaching

  • Support: Tasks 1 and 2, then Task 3 orally with a scribe. Keep to gone, eaten, done, made. Game on Mild.
  • SEN: gentle mode on; read Task 2 aloud before they edit.
  • Stretch: Task 3 extension, one sentence where the present perfect and the simple past sit side by side, both correct.
  • EAL: many first languages use one past where English uses two. Anchor on the time phrase: if you can say when, use the simple past.

Play it

Lesson code PRFTC at playspaghetti.com. The code is printed on the bottom of every pupil sheet with a QR, and Class Quiz in your dashboard opens the plenary quiz for this lesson pre-picked.

SPAGhetti · Grammar sequence · Lesson 8 of 14  ·  Teacher notes, not for pupils 2 of 2  ·  Ludora