Activity 1 - Watch the Video
First, watch the video and answer
the questions (the answers are below):
1) What did Kathy do in the morning?
2) What did Maria do yesterday?
Primero, mira el video y responde
a las preguntas de arriba. (Las respuestas están más
abajo.)
Activity 2 - Study the Past Simple
If the activity is difficult, review
the past simple first: Pasado
Simple.
Si te resulta difícil, repasa
el pasado simple primero.
Activity 3 - Study the Present Perfect
If the activity is difficult, review
the present perfect first: Presente
Perfecto.
Si te resulta difícil, repasa
el Presente Perfecto primero.
Activity 4 - Study Vocabulary
Do this vocabulary activity first:
"Have done" vs. "did" - Matching or read the vocabulary list below: Vocabulary List.
Haz la actividad de vocabulario primero.
Activity 5 - Do these Interactive Activities
You can do interactive activities
in this order: "Have
done" vs. "did" - Easy Cloze, "Have
done" vs. "did" - Difficult Cloze. (You can also simply
watch and/or read the correct text below.)
Puedes hacer las actividades en el
orden indicado más arriba. (También puedes simplemente
ver el video y/o leer el texto correcto más abajo.)
Answers to questions
These are the answers to the questions
in activity 1:
1) What did Kathy do in the morning? She went out
and had breakfast then came to New York.
2) What did Maria do yesterday? She arrived from Boston.
Estas son las respuestas a las preguntas
de la actividad 1.
Text
Interviewer: What’s your name?
Ada: Ada Sanchez.
Interviewer: And, 
what have you been doing
today Ada?
Ada: What have I been doing today? Working.
I’ve been working. I do payroll for a medical agency.
Interviewer: What did you do yesterday?
Ada: I went to church and I went to a birthday
party.
Interviewer: Have you ever been to Europe?
Lady: Yes, I’ve been to France, in fact, to
Blay. I lived there for one summer.
Interviewer: For a whole summer? What did you
do while you were there?
Lady: I lived with a family. I
just practiced speaking French.
Interviewer: Great!
Interviewer: What have you done this morning?
Joe: I’ve been following my wife around shopping
all morning.
Interviewer: What did you do yesterday?
Derek: I sat around watching TV. I didn’t do
very much at all.
Luke: Oh, I watched KU play a little basketball.
That’s about it.
Interviewer: You like basketball, huh? What
did you do yesterday?
Joe: My wife and I went to Charleston, South
Carolina, and really had a good day.
Interviewer: And, what have you done this
morning?
Nancy: What have I done? I picked up my two
nieces. We are from New Jersey, which is the State next door
to New York State. And we had lunch and we came to New York
and we’re here at Radio City to see the Christmas show.
Interviewer: Oh good, I heard that’s great.
What did you do yesterday?
Nancy: What did I do yesterday? Well, I took
my Christmas tree down, did a little shopping, did a little
laundry at home and cooked for my parents.
Interviewer: Good afternoon, what’s your name?
Kathy: Kathy Clee
Interviewer: Kathy Clee? Kathy, what have you
done this morning?
Kathy: What have I done this morning? I went
out and had breakfast and came here to New York.
Interviewer: What did you do yesterday?
Kathy: Yesterday, I stayed in bed all day because
I was sick.
Interviewer: I hope you're feeling better.
Kathy: A little better, not much.
Interviewer: When did you meet your wife?
Michael: I met my wife three years ago.
Interviewer: Do you have any children?
Michael: Yes, I do. I have two children. This
is my son Chad.
Interviewer: Hi Chad, how are you?
Chad: Good.
Interviewer: Could you introduce us to your
wife?
Michael: Yes.
Interviewer: Hello.
Michael: This is Loren.
Interviewer: Hi, what’s your name?
Loren: Loren.
Interviewer: Great! What have you done this
morning Loren?
Loren: Packed, had breakfast, now we’re shopping.
Interviewer: Ok. What did you do yesterday?
Loren: I was sick in bed.
Interviewer: I hope you’re feeling better today.
Loren: Yes, I am. Thank you.
Interviewer: Hi, what’s your name?
Bernadette: Bernadette.
Interviewer: Bernadette, what have you done
this morning?
Bernadette: I got up. I went over to the passport
office to try and get an emergency passport, and I’m waiting
here for somebody to pick me up. That’s it.
Interviewer: Ok. Great! Turn this way just
a little and then they can see your beautiful face.
Interviewer: What have you done this morning?
Travis: A lot of reading. A lot of reading.
Interviewer: What did you do yesterday?
Alison: Much of the same. It was work.
Interviewer: A lot of work?
Travis: A lot of work.
Interviewer: What did you do yesterday?
Alison: I went to the Hard Rock Café
and I went to a disco birthday party and I banked all day
again yesterday.
Interviewer: It sounds like you had a little
more fun than him.
Alison: Yea. That’s generally the case.
Interviewer: What’s your name again?
Marie: Marie Holtz.
Interviewer: Hi, Marie. What have you done
this morning?
Marie: Well, we’ve . . . we got up and we had
bagels for breakfast and we ate quickly left Riverton New Jersey
for New York City.
Interviewer: Great! What did you do yesterday?
Marie: Yesterday was a kind of relaxing day,
post-holiday, family kind of day. Everybody stayed at home and
kind of enjoyed each other. Yea.
Interviewer: Hello, what’s your name?
Maria: My name is Maria.
Interviewer: Hi Maria. What have you done this
morning?
Maria: Not much. I tried to take a tour around
New York, which wasn’t a very good one, so we got off the bus.
Interviewer: Wow, that was smart. What did
you do yesterday?
Maria: Well, we arrived from Boston, I arrived
from Boston and my sister arrived from Russia.
Interviewer: Great! Can you speak any foreign
languages?
Maria: Yep. I speak some French. I speak Spanish,
English and Russian. That’s my native language.
Interviewer: What did you do when you left
school?
Maria: Well, I continued teaching, studying
and teaching.
Interviewer: When did you two meet?
Maria: You mean here or in general?
Interviewer: In general.
Maria: We were born together. This is my womb-mate.
Interviewer: Womb-mate? So, you’re twins?
Maria: Yes.
Interviewer: That’s great!
Practice: "Have
done" vs. "did" - Easy Cloze, "Have
done" vs. "did" - Difficult Cloze.
By "
What have you been doing? - ¿Qué has
estado haciendo?
