PRESENT PERFECT VS SIMPLE PAST

Last week my sister ____________ a nice blouse in that shop.

I ________________ English for five years.

Choose the right option to complete the sentences:

I _____________ tennis yesterday afternoon.

Choose the right option to complete the sentences:

I _____________ tennis yesterday afternoon.

Last summer we ... in the Arctic for three weeks.

We ... to Africa and South America.

We use the past simple because we say when the actions happened.

"I looked at the sales figures this morning. They shot up by 20% last month."

We use the present perfect to focus on what happened, not when!

"I’ve looked at the sales figures. They’ve shot up by 20%."

I’m really hungry. I _________ yet