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11 Revie Review

Unit 11 Review

Unit 11

  • I CAN review life event vocabulary and present perfect tenses
Unit 11 Review
Lesson Review

Lesson Review

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Welcome to the Unit 11 Review. Over the last few lessons, you have practised talking about important moments in your life and using the present perfect to connect past actions with the present. This review brings those ideas together so you can use them with confidence.

Life event vocabulary names the big things that happen to people. Common examples include: get married, have a baby, move house, change jobs, retire, start a new job, pass an exam, go to university, leave home, buy a flat, learn to drive, win a prize and make new friends. Many of these are verb phrases, and you can use them in different tenses depending on the time you want to talk about. Notice that some life events use a noun (a baby, a job) while others use a place (university) or an object (a driving licence).

Event Example sentence
get married My sister got married last summer.
move house We moved house in 2019.
start a new job He started a new job in March.
pass an exam I passed my driving test in June.

The present perfect combines have / has with a past participle. Use it for life events when the exact time is not important, or when the result matters now. We form it like this: subject + have/has + past participle (have lived, has finished, have been, has done). Many past participles are irregular — for example be → been, do → done, go → gone, see → seen, eat → eaten, get → got. You should learn these as you meet them.

Compare these two tenses:

  • Past simple: a finished action at a specific time. I went to Italy in 2020.
  • Present perfect: a past action with a present result, or an experience up to now. I have been to Italy three times.

Time markers help you choose the right tense. Just, already and yet talk about very recent actions. Ever and never are used for experiences in your life so far. For and since describe how long something has continued. I have lived here for five years. / She has worked here since 2018.

Use the present perfect to ask about experiences: Have you ever been to Japan? Short answers: Yes, I have. / No, I haven't.

A writing strategy: organising by time When you write about your life, a clear way to organise ideas is chronological order — from earliest to latest. You can start with childhood events, then move to school, then to work, then to recent life. This makes your writing easy to follow. Always use capital letters at the start of sentences and for proper nouns (names of people, places, months, languages).

Now let's review what you have learned.

Generating translation…

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Complete the present perfect: 'I ___ (live) in this city for ten years.'

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Complete with the past participle: 'She has ___ (be) to France twice.'

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Make it negative: 'They have moved to London.' → 'They ___ moved to London.'

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Put the words in order to make a question about experience.

  1. you
  2. Have
  3. ever
  4. been
  5. to
  6. Japan
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Drag the correct past participle into each sentence.

  • been
  • moved
  • known
  • lived

I have in this city for ten years.

She has to Japan twice.

We have just to a new house.

They have each other since school.

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Match each life event with its meaning.

Match each life event with its meaning.

  • get married
  • have a baby
  • move house
  • retire
  • have a wedding ceremony
  • become a parent
  • change where you live
  • stop working at the end of your career
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What does 'pass an exam' mean?

  • fail a test
  • succeed in a test
  • miss a test
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Match each time marker with its meaning.

Match each time marker with its meaning.

  • just
  • already
  • yet
  • ever
  • a moment ago
  • sooner than expected
  • in negative sentences and questions, up to now
  • at any time in your life
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'Have you ___ been to Australia?' Which word completes the question?

  • ever
  • for
  • since

PREPARE — Before you write, gather your ideas. Make notes about four or five important events in your life. For each event, write: 1) what happened, 2) when it happened, 3) where you were, 4) who was with you. Then put your events in chronological order — from the earliest to the most recent. Using time order makes your writing easy to follow.

In 2018, I graduated from university and left home. Since then, I have moved to London, started a new job and made many new friends. I have passed two important exams, and I have just bought a small flat. I have never regretted my decision

Read this model blog post. Notice the chronological order, the present perfect with 'since', 'just' and 'never', and the past simple for events at specific times.

WRITE — Now write a short blog post or email to a friend about important events in your life. Aim for 80–120 words. Start with a short introduction (for example: 'Let me tell you about some important moments in my life.'). Then describe your events in chronological order. Use the present perfect for experiences ('I have visited…') and the past simple for events at specific times ('I graduated in 2019.'). Finish with how you feel today.

REVIEW — Check your writing with this checklist: 1) Capital letters: did you start each sentence with a capital letter? Are proper nouns (names, places, months) capitalised? 2) Tenses: did you use the present perfect for experiences and the past simple for events at specific times? 3) Time markers: did you use for, since, just, already, ever, never where needed? 4) Irregular past participles: have you checked be → been, do → done, go → gone, see → seen, get → got? 5) Read aloud: does the text flow naturally?

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