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Downloadable worksheets: PRESENT PERFECT WITH FOR AND SINCE Level: intermediate Age: 10-14 Downloads: 6867   THE PRESENT PERFECT TENSE Level: elementary Age: 12-14 Downloads: 5636   GRAMMAR TIME - PRESENT PERFECT (with key editable) Level: elementary Age: 12-14 Downloads: 5156   Present perfect vs Simple past in context Level: intermediate Age: 10-17 Downloads: 4163   Present Perfect Level: elementary Age: 12-17 Downloads: 3855   Simple Past or Present Perfect? Level: intermediate Age: 12-17 Downloads: 3586

Since or for?   We use FOR + period of time (for three days, for a week, for a long time)   We use SINCE + start of the period (since Christmas, since Sunday, since I was ten years old)   Maya has been a professional singer sincefor 1989.      So far, it has rained forsince five hours.    I haven't been snowboarding forsince last winter.     Jo has been a student here forsince March.     The beaver has been an emblem of Canada forsince many years.    Cougars have almost disappeared from the Victoria area forsince humans settled here.    Mary has kept a diary sincefor she was ten years old.    First Nations people in British Columbia have told stories about the eagle sincefor hundreds of years.   The Canadian two-dollar coin has been in circulation sincefor 1996.    They've been married  forsince twenty-five years.