Talking About Sport

Now let’s learn some language for talking about sporting achievements.

We’re actually using two different tenses in these sentences – the present perfect simple and the present perfect continuous. See if you can work them out.

Let’s talk about how we form these two different sentence types.

Listen to how to begin these sentences:

Notice how you say ”I’ve”, not “I have”, and “she’s” not “she has”.

Practice beginning these sentences out loud:

• I’ve won = /aɪv wʌn/
• She’d played = /ʃiːz pleɪd/
• I’ve been training = /aɪv biːn ˈtreɪnɪŋ/
• I’ve been thinking = /aɪv biːn ˈθɪŋkɪŋ/