1. Present Perfect (Pretérito Perfecto - Presente Perfecto)

2. What is Present Perfect? - ¿Qué es pretérito perfecto?
Warm-up
What is Present Perfect? - ¿Qué es pretérito perfecto?

4. Present Perfect - Pretérito Perfecto
Formas regulares +
Auxiliary Verb
Helping Verb
(Verbo Auxiliar)
Past Participle (participio)

5. Auxiliary Verbs Helping Verb
Now you need a helping verb to go with your past participles. What we use is the present tense of the verb “haber.”
he hablado hemos hablado
has hablado habéis hablado
ha hablado han hablado
Use these verb forms with all your past participles: he comido, has querido, ha vuelto, hemos trabajado, etc.

6. R roto (broken)
E escrito (written)
V visto (seen)
V vuelto (came back)
M muerto (died)
A abierto (opened)
C cubierto (covered)
P puesto (put)
H hecho (done/made)
D dicho (told/said)
D devuelto (returned)
Romper (to break)
Escribir (to write)
Ver (to see)
Volver (to come back)
Morir (to die)
Abrir (to open)
Cubrir (to cover)
Poner (to put)
Hacer (to do/make)
Decir (to tell/say)
Devolver (return)

7. Present Perfect Pretérito Perfecto – Presente Perfecto
Indicative verbs express simple statement of a fact
Auxiliary haber (have / has)
He, has, ha, hemos, habéis, han
ado, ido (endings)
REVV, MAC, PHDD +
Example: ¿Has viajado a España? Have you ever visited Spain?

8. Present Perfect in Recent Past

9. Present Perfect or Present Simple?

10. Past Participle
All perfect tenses are made up of two parts: the auxiliary verb (helping verb) and the past participle of the main verb:
helping verb past participle helping verb past participle
He has eaten. We have seen.
They have left. You have finished.
I have studied. She has fallen.

11. This is how you form the past participle in Spanish:
Drop the –ar and add –ado:
hablar hablado nadar nadado
pensar pensado almorzar almorzado
llegar llegado estar estado
Drop the –er or –ir and add –ido:
comer comido poder podido
leer leído querer querido
asistir asistido venir venido

12. There are, of course, irregular past participles in Spanish as there are in English.
R M P
E A H
V C D
V D

14. Present Perfect – translate the following sentences
Name: ________________________________ Date: ________________ Period: ________
Present Perfect – translate the following sentences
1. I have seen the mountains of Perú.
2. You have gone to Colombia.
3. You have written a pretty poem.
4. He has slept 10 hours.
5. She has said that she is a princess.
6. We have returned to buy milk.
7. You have sung very well.
8. You have made a delicious cake.
9. They have danced in 12 countries.
10. They have heard the truth
1. He visto las montañas de Perú.
2. Has ido a Colombia.
3. Usted ha escrito un poema bonito
4. Él ha dormido 10 horas.
5. Ella ha dicho que es una princesa
6. Hemos vuelto para comprar la leche.
7. Habéis cantado muy bien.
8. Ustedes han hecho un pastel delicioso.
9. Ellos han bailado en 12 países.
10. Ellas han oído la verdad.

15. Present Perfect – translate the following sentences
Name: ________________________________ Date: ________________ Period: ________
Present Perfect – translate the following sentences
1. I have seen the mountains of Perú.
2. You have gone to Colombia.
3. You have written a pretty poem.
4. He has slept 10 hours.
5. She has said that she is a princess.
6. We have returned to buy milk.
7. You have sung very well.
8. You have made a delicious cake.
9. They have danced in 12 countries.
10. They have heard the truth

16. Online Quiz To to the following link:
Use “pretérito perfecto” (present perfect) to complete this Quiz (haber + past participle)
Minimum grade accepted 85%

17. Pluperfect (Past Perfect)
Pluscuamperfecto
Pluperfect (Past Perfect)

18. Introduction
We use the pretérito pluscuamperfecto (past perfect) to describe actions that took place before a certain point in the past.
We always use the past perfect when we are telling a story and then want to look back at something that happened earlier.
Present Perfect & Past Perfect (click here)

19. When to Use the Spanish Pluperfect and Preterit Perfect Tenses?
The pluperfect and preterit tenses in Spanish have identical translations in English. So what’s the difference between the pluperfect and preterit tenses? The differences center less on conceptual distinctions and more on the contexts in which they’re used:
The pluperfect is conversational and is used in everyday speech to describe a past action that happened prior to another past action. The more recent past action typically signals the end of the previous past action, as in the following examples:
Nosotros habíamos terminado con la cena antes de que ellos llegaron. We had finished dinner before they arrived.
Había practicado mucho para presentar esta pieza perfectamente. I had trained for a long time to be able to play the piece perfectly well.
Yo me había acostado después de mi programa favorito. I had gone to bed after my favorite program.

20. Preterite Perfect Tenses
Preterit perfect: The preterit perfect is used primarily in formal or literary Spanish. Here are some examples of the preterit perfect tense:
Una vez que hubimos visto toda la película, salimos del cine. Once we had seen all of the movie, we left the theater.
Tan pronto como ellos hubieron terminado el trabajo, recibieron el dinero. As soon as they had finished the work, they received the money.
Tú apenas hubiste llegado, cuando la fiesta empezó. You had hardly arrived, when the party began.

21. PRACTICE
Exercises Present Perfect (click here)

22. Pluperfect (Past Perfect) (Pluscuamperfecto)
The past perfect (also called the pluperfect and, in Spanish, the pluscuamperfecto), remember, is the past of the past and translates with “had” in English. ALL perfect tenses get a helping verb and a past participle:
present perfect he has eaten
past perfect he had eaten
future perfect he will have eaten
conditional perfect he would have eaten

23. había hablado habíamos hablado
As you saw, the present perfect tense has a set of helping verbs that come from “haber”:
he hemos
has habéis
ha han
The same is true of the past perfect. The helping verbs for the past perfect are the imperfect form of “haber”:
había hablado habíamos hablado
habías hablado habíais hablado
había hablado habían hablado

24. Note that the endings on “haber” for the past perfect are the endings for the imperfect tense:
había habíamos
habías habíais
había habían
The present perfect is the PRESENT tense of “haber” + the past participle.
The past perfect tense is the IMPERFECT (PAST) tense of “haber” + the past participle.

25. Uses of the Preterite The preterite is used to express the following:
A single action or a series of actions in the past that are totally completed
An event that lasted for a specific period of time that has been completed and of which we usually know the beginning and the end.
The beginning or the end of an action in the past.

26. TEST REVIEW
PAST TENSE

27. Uses of the Imperfect The imperfect is used to express the following:
An action that went on in the past for a period of time that is no specific
A habitual action. The period of time is not specific. One of the best ways to recognize this use is to think of English I used to, or I would.
An action that was in progress when another took place or interrupt it
Time, Age, Weather, Emotions or State of Being

28. Uses of the Present Perfect
The present perfect is used in Spanish the same way as it is used in English. It is used to express what has happened closer to present (near future) or that the action continued in the (near future)
The auxiliary Haber + Past Participle are never separated
The Negative Form (NO), Direct Object Pronouns (DOP’s) and the Reflexive Pronouns (RP) must be writteh before the auxiliary + past participle of the verb

29. El tren ha llegado en este momento
alguna vez, nunca
desde, para
ya, solo, sin embargo
Ella no ha viajado por tren
Ellas no han viajado por tren
recientemente,
últimamente
hasta el momento
¿Qué han aprendido?

30. Uses of the Pluperfect – Past Perfect Pluscuamperfecto
The “Pluscuamperfecto” is used to indicate events that precede another in the past. It is used to express what had happened.
The pluperfect is conversational and is used in everyday speech to describe a past action that happened prior to another past action. The more recent past action typically signals the end of the previous past action, as in the following examples:
Nosotros habíamos terminado con la cena antes de que ellos llegaron. We had finished dinner before they arrived.
Había practicado mucho para presentar esta pieza perfectamente. I had trained for a long time to be able to play the piece perfectly well.
Yo me había acostado después de mi programa favorito. I had gone to bed after my favorite program.

31. See the following Link “Gramatica Intensiva” (click here)

32. Song What to do: Listen the music Lyrics (click here)
Translate the sentences according if it preterite, imperfect, present perfect.

33. Online Resources