I am going to teach Present Perfect Tense this week . I am wondering in what way I can make an introduction and what techniques I can use. Thanks.

You can make them write a poem. Google "scott thornbury" and on his website you will find a poem which Ss complete later on. Sort of:

I �ve heard....(birds singing)

I �ve seen....(people dying)

I �ve tasted....

I �ve touched.....

I �ve smelled ...

I will never forget it.

Or something like that. Whatever they write it sounds quite poetic anyway:) And they enjoy it.

Boys can write rap or something like that:)

I don �t know what age your Ss are so I don �t really know what else you might need:)

Hope to be of some help.

Kasia

                      Do you often travel to China?

                      Are you travelling to China tomorrow?

                      Did you travel to China yesterday?

                      (These should all be questions bidding a "no" reply)

                      Then finally, "Have you ever travelled to China?!"  

                       (with this last one I use a flourish of arms to emphasize the meaning)

Students instinctively know what it means and get the idea.  Then you can repeat with the other students and draw a time-line on your blackboard to explain the idea of the present perfect, how we use it mostly when we �re talking about an action which occurs in a period of time starting in the past but continuing up to the present, for instance: today, this week, this month, this year, lately, one �s life (as in the case of ever).  Ask a lot of questions from there on and add reading material with written questions and slowly introduce the different terms usually used with Present Perfect (yet, already, just, ever, lately, so far, etc.--separately so as not to confuse them).  

It �s something that I like to teach.  Hope it helps you.

As for an introduction:

 

1. Uncompleted action where both actor and results remain.( The contrast with the past simple as well. )

 a. Gegraphical or currently relevent inf. from fact sheets. The building was a stable, but it has been a children �s theatre for 10 years.

 

b. an anniversay:  We have been married for...

 

c. protest against new rules, a new road, or other changes: We �ve always played soccer here.

 

 This site might also be helpful:

 http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/search/label/present%20perfect