Stop to do versus stop doing
You stop doing something in order to do something else
Present perfect simple versus present perfect continuous.
New Language Leader p. 30 question 7, p. 131 G2
Notes:
Present Perfect to talk about...
- Something that starts in the past and continues to now
- Something that happened in the past but is still important/relevant/has an effect now
- A time period that hasn't finished yet e.g. This month, this week, this year etc
- Recent events/experience when the time is not important
+ Simple for
- State and sense verbs
- Permanent situations
- To emphasise the amount or number of things you have completed
- Finished actions
+ Continuous for
- Verbs like wait and rain that imply duration
- Unfinished actions
- To emphasise that the action lasted a long time
- Temporary situations or repeated actions
When choosing the best tense, think about:
1) the nature of the action or the event (i.e. the context)
2) the point of view of the speaker
3) the verb you are using e.g. learn versus study, see versus watch.
Vocabulary
On board delivery
take over (from me) = to assume control/responsibility/management of something
Homework
Find a text (written or oral e.g. an article, or short interview or podcast) and notice all the uses of the present perfect simple and peesent perfect continuous. Why has the speaker/writer used these tenses?
Find a good monolingual dictionary to download as an app or to use in desk top form on your computer (e.g. Collins). Set it to the "learner" version. This will be a great source of words and how to use them. http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-cobuild-learners
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