Guided Practice for the Present Perfect Simple. Make It Correct for You Activity. The purpose of the Make It Correct for You Activity is to allow your students to focus on the form and accuracy in using the present perfect simple. While also focusing on the meaning and students' expression of their real experiences. Now what do teachers need to prepare? Well, teachers must create a handout with statements using the present perfect simple tense. You want to make sure that the statements have a variety of subjects, not just I. And time words and phrases, including never, many times, a number of times, before, since, and for. Here's an example. Notice that some of the sentences use I as the subject, but we also have mother, uncles, and friends. Also, we have different time words like before, many times, for over 20 years, three times, since April, and since is also used with a clause, since she was eight years old. Now let's talk about what the students need to do. Well, they need to make each of the statements correct for them by changing the original sentences to fit their real experiences. This is primarily a writing exercise, but it's easy to make it a speaking exercise. Just pair up the students and ask them to help each other. Let me demonstrate for you, this is what you would say to your students. Students, please look at the activity that I've given you in the handout. You want to work with a partner and help one another. Let's take a look at the instructions. Correct the statements to be true for you. Write the correct sentence under the original sentence. Please make sure that you only change what you need to. And, if it's a correct statement for you, just copy the sentence as it is. Now, let's try number 1 together. It says, my mother has never made spaghetti before. Hm, well, that wouldn't be right. This would be correct for me instead. My mother has made spaghetti many times before. So I would write this sentence under number 1. Ms. Helen! I think my mom has made spaghetti maybe one time before. It wasn't good. [LAUGH], well it's okay. Then you would write, my mother has made spaghetti once before. Okay. Now, do you have any more questions? All right, I think we're ready to begin. Okay, that's the end of the demonstration. Please keep in mind that this activity works really well as a homework assignment. And I highly recommend writing your own statements with your students' age and experiences in mind. Hope you enjoyed the activity. Thanks for watching!