When to Use Present Perfect and Past Simple (full lesson)

This is a longer video to help English learners understand when they should use present perfect tense and when they should use past simple tense.
First, I discuss some basic rules/guidelines for present perfect and past simple, and then I guide you through a worksheet that I used to use in the classroom with my students.

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Thank you teacher good lesson now I know when to use present perfect and past simple tense without making a mistake I think and hope 🙂

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Bom demais para aprender a usar estes dois tempos verbais. Muito obrigado por suas aulas

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[@deleonherreratommyjosue5544]

Thanks Teacher Mike, this helps me due to i was not sure about the uses of these tenses in context like
i have to use correctly right now, perfect or past?

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In that case, you could use either one, and they would just be slightly different.

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Very helpful. I have been living in America for 8 years and still not good at using these crazy tenses. They drove me nut.

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Fit time to listening to you the duration is not too long and not too short, i try my best to tenses a bit confusing thought why did you use the word see not The word watch? The word watch it's better i think.😊

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Noticed yesterday past simple

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[@harrygreg4003]

Hey dear Teacher Mike, I'd write "she has been working" in the 3rd exercise. Would I be wrong? What do you think?

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Hi. I'm not able to watch the video right now. Could you tell me what I said and why you think it would be something different?

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@@TeacherMikeEnglish about employee, she is still working there and you chose she has worked
I thought we could use she has been working

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Can you please send me the pdf you used in this class ?

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Hi. I didn't use a pdf. This video is my original content.

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I was surprised that still is used in negative sentences. Question: should we replace it with continued in positive sentence? EX: She continues living in dormitory. I hope she rents an apartment soon.

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No. Using "continues" there sounds strange.
She still lives in the dormitory.✅

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[@Rauans]

Last question: I was watching this movie many times? Why we can’t use past continuous form?

[@TeacherMikeEnglish]

It generally doesn't make sense to say "I was ___ing many times."
We use past continuous to say that one habit or action was continuing non-stop/repeatedly, so adding "many times" is strange.

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Told went

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