Present Perfect Yes/No Questions ESL Games and Activities

In this engaging present perfect yes/no questions game, students make guesses and complete present perfect statements about their classmates and then find out if their guesses are right or wrong by asking Have you...? questions. First, students read each sentence, choose a classmate they think the statement might be true for and write the person's name at the beginning of the sentence, e.g. 'Katie has gone to the beach recently.' Next, students go around the class, find the classmate they named in each sentence, and ask them a present perfect yes/no question with Have you...?, e.g. 'Katie, have you gone to the beach recently?' Their classmate replies 'Yes, I have' or 'No, I haven't' accordingly. Students put a tick or a cross next to each statement, depending on whether their guess is right or wrong. Students then ask a present perfect follow-up question and write the information in the last column. The student with the most correct guesses wins the game. Finally, students give feedback to the class on what they found out.

This enjoyable present perfect questions game helps students practice present perfect yes/no questions and short answers. In groups, players take turns choosing one of their short answer cards without showing it to anyone, e.g. 'Yes, it has.' The player then thinks of a present perfect yes/no question that will elicit the answer on the card, e.g. 'Has it been sunny today?' The player then asks the question to another student in the group. If the student gives the same short answer that's on the card, the player wins and discards the card. If not, the player keeps the card. The first player to get rid of all their cards wins the game.

In this insightful present perfect yes/no questions activity, students ask Have you...? questions in order to find out if certain statements about the class are true or false. First, students prepare the present perfect yes/no question they need to ask to find out if a statement on a slip of paper is true or false, e.g. 'Over half the class has seen a whale.' Students then go around asking their Have you...? question to the other students, e.g. 'Have you ever seen a whale?' Students mark each response by putting a tick or cross on their slip of paper. When a student has enough information and knows whether their statement is true or false, they sit down. Finally, review the answers together as a class. For each statement, first, ask the class whether they think it is true or false. Then, the student who asked the question reveals the actual result based on their findings.

In this comprehensive present perfect yes/no questions worksheet, students learn the structure and function of Have...? and Has...? questions. First, students complete grammar rules about present perfect yes/no questions with words from a box. Students then complete questions with Have or Has and verbs in the past participle. Next, students identify errors in questions and rewrite them so that they are grammatically correct. After that, students write present perfect yes/no questions using prompts and verbs in their correct form. Students then move on to use words in brackets to write present perfect yes/no questions that match responses. Finally, students ask and answer similar questions with a partner using the words in brackets and the pronoun 'you'.

In this fun present perfect game, students play snap by matching Have...? and Has...? questions with short answers. In pairs, both students turn over a card from their pile at the same time and place them on the table next to each other. If the present perfect yes/no question and short answer match, the first student to say 'Snap!' scores a point. Students then pick up their own cards, shuffle their pack and play again. Students do not pick up their partner's cards. If the question and answer don't match, students continue turning over cards until a matching pair comes up. If a student says 'Snap!' when the question and answer don't match, the other student scores a point and the game continues. The first student to get 15 points wins the game.

In this free present perfect yes/no questions game, students play bingo by asking and answering Have you questions. Students go around asking their classmates present perfect Have you...? questions from the squares on the bingo grid. If a square relates to a personal experience, students make a question with Have you ever...? When a classmate answers 'Yes, I have' to a question, the student writes their name in the square and then moves on to speak to another student. If a classmate answers 'No, I haven't', the student asks a different question or goes on to speak to someone else. The first student to get five squares in a row in any direction shouts 'Bingo!' When this happens, stop the activity and have the student make five present perfect sentences about the information in the squares, e.g. 'Becky has flown a kite. Derek has been on a long flight, etc.' Then, students continue the game by trying to complete the entire bingo card with names.

In this intriguing present perfect yes/no questions game, students practice forming, asking and answering questions with Have you...? First, students complete present perfect yes/no questions with their own ideas. Next, divide the students into pairs. Working alone, students decide if their partner would reply yes or no to each question and write their guesses in a yes/no column. Students then take turns asking the questions to their partner to find out if their guesses are right or wrong. Their partner replies 'Yes, I have' or 'No, I haven't' accordingly. Students put a tick for each correct guess. The student with the most correct guesses at the end of the game wins. Finally, students give feedback to the class on what they found out about their partner.

This productive present perfect yes/no questions game helps students to practice asking and answering Have you...? questions about experiences and recently completed actions. First, students complete present perfect sentences on cards with true information about themselves. Students then fold up their completed sentences and put them in a box. Next, all the students stand up and take one sentence card from the box. Students then go around the class and find out who wrote the sentence on their card by asking present perfect yes/no questions, e.g. 'Have you been to Egypt before?' When a student finds the person who wrote the sentence, they write the person's name on the card, keep it and take another one from the box. Students repeat the activity until there are no sentences left. The student with the most sentences at the end of the game is the winner. Finally, students report back to the class on what they found out about their classmates.