Grammar: Adventure

Present perfect affirmative and negative: regular verbs

1Complete the sentences with the present perfect form of the verbs in brackets. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

• 1I  (travel) to lots of different places in my life.

• 2You  (not work) for a large company.

• 3Liam  (row) across the North Sea.

• 4My grandmother  (not use) an e-reader.

• 5The athletes  (compete) in the Olympics.

• 6I  (not study) Italian before.

Present perfect affirmative and negative: regular verbs

2Choose the correct verbs. Then complete the text with the present perfect form of the verbs. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

Meet Jen and Brendan. They are part of the Cave Rescue Organisation (CRO) in Yorkshire. They 

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(finish / discover) a lot about the countryside around them – its beauty and its dangers.

The Yorkshire Dales is a national park with mountains, lakes, waterfalls and caves. Tourists 

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(work / travel) to this area for years – it's very popular. A lot of them come caving here. Usually everything is fine, but sometimes people have problems and that's when Jen and Brendan, and more than 80 other volunteers with CRO can help.

The CRO 

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(help / use) thousands of people. Jen and Brendan 

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(rescue / watch) seven people from caves. They 

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(listen / climb) long distances inside caves and 

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(swim / stop) through deep underground rivers to find missing people. 'Caving holidays are great!' Jen says, 'but if you 

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(not try / not rescue) it before, you should find out how to be safe.' But it's not just people. 'We 

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(carry / talk) sheep and dogs out of caves too!' explains Jen. 'It's always great to see a dog back with its owner.'

 Present perfect affirmative and negative: irregular verbs

3Complete the sentences with the present perfect form of the verbs in the box. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

MOVE
• break
• have
• not go
• do
• not swim
• not win

• 1Horse riding is quite dangerous and you can get hurt. I  my arm three times!

• 2Kate is very kind. She  a lot of work for charity.

• 3Paul  dinner in some famous restaurants, but he prefers eating at home.

• 4I  in the sea, because we live a long way away from the coast.

• 5She plays the piano very well, but she  a competition.

• 6Mum and Dad  to California before. This is their first time.

Present perfect affirmative and negative: irregular verbs

4Write present perfect sentences about Katy’s holidays. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task. You also need to use correct punctuation.

• 1She .

  go to Rome ✔

• 2She .

  swim with dolphins ✔

• 3She .

  see the Egyptian pyramids ✘

• 4She .

  take lots of photos ✔

• 5She .

  spend a lot of money ✘

• 6She .

  be bored ✘

Present perfect affirmative and negative: irregular verbs

5Complete the text with the present perfect form of the verbs in brackets. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

Laura Dekker, a teenager from the Netherlands, 

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(not do) the things other young people do.

Like other teenagers, she has been to school; she 

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(study) and she 

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(take) exams, but she 

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(not spend) a lot of time meeting up with friends and going out. A boring life? Not at all!

Laura 

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(travel) around the world, but she 

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(be) with her parents. She 

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(do) most of her travelling alone. She 

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(not had) rooms in hotels or a tent on a campsite – she 

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(sleep) in a small cabin. Why? She's a sailor. Laura 

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(sail) around the world. She 

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(stay) for months of her life on her boat, Guppy.

Laura 

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(be) interested in sailing since she was very young. Born in 1995, she first sailed alone at the age of six. She has wanted to sail around the world all her life, but it 

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(not be) easy to make her dream come true. When she was thirteen she was ready to try her world trip, but the Dutch government stopped her. They were worried about her safety.

Finally, when she was sixteen, Laura's dream came true and she became the youngest person ever to sail around the world. She 

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(not finish) her adventuring. She's got lots of sailing plans for the future.

6  Write three sentences about adventures you have had. Then write three sentences about adventurous things you have not done, but would like to do in the future. I've been on a ski trip. I haven't swum with dolphins.

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