Name: IELTS Speaking Perfect Grammar for Band 9
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Grammar is extremely important in the IELTS exam for clear, coherent and advanced communication to get those high band scores in in your speaking and writing.

Have you ever moved to a completely different city or country?

I have moved to a different city for my current job.

My experience so far has been pretty good as I have gained greater independence and just last weekend I was out till 4am in the morning with my friends, something I would have definitely not done had I been living with my parents.

The basic rule behind present perfect is you need a subject like I.

The auxiliary verb have or has, depending on the subject, she has, he has.

They have the past participle of the verb gone, go, went, gone and the object they have gone to Europe.

What does it actually do in the language?

The present perfect in English is used to indicate and emphasize expectations.

When you expect a person to do a task, it is good to use the present perfect.

Native speakers will feel this difference.

In fact, there are five reasons that native English speakers use the present to show experience, achievement, expectation, change over time, and

It is very important that you understand these reasons for using present perfect.

When most people think about present perfect, they simply think it's subject auxiliary verb have past participle like studied and then the object English, meaning that it started at some time in the past, continued until the present, and

Have you ever performed a dance in front of an audience?

I have performed at various dance recitals over the years to which people have been attending from over a dozen to hundreds.

Just last month we have performed at a friend's wedding and we put a bit of a show for 200 or so attendees.

Of course, this is the grammatical rules behind present perfect and the timeline, but

it's the reasons that make present perfect extremely useful.

You will notice that in IELTS speaking, the later questions of part one will use the present perfect.

Then more and more questions in part three will also target present perfect.

That's because advanced communication focuses on the emphasis of experience, achievements, expectations change over time and repetition over time.

Or the opposite, like I haven't done my homework.

This means that I did not fulfill the expectation of the teacher.

However, clearly the teacher hasn't given up.

They still expect that I will do my homework.

This is why we use the present perfect the expectation started in the past.

It continues until now and then will continue into the future.

I haven't bought a paper magazine or newspaper as long as I remember.

I may have flipped through one in a superstore, but that's about it.

But I do follow subscriptions on my mobile.

I read a magazine called Femina on Internet every week in order to learn grammar effectively, not only for the ielts but for your everyday communication.

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Make sure to practice present perfect lots before you sit your IELTS exam.

In the case of achievement, the examiner may have you ever won a competition?

Again, this shows that you have conquered an achievement and this will be yours forever.

It happened in the past when you won the tournament.

You won that gold medal and it's still yours and it will be yours into the future.

Emphasizing experience is perhaps the most common way to use present perfect.

Yes, I have visited many different metropolitan areas around the world.

I have been to New York, I have been to Paris and I have visited Dubai.

This is emphasizing that you have gained experiences in these places.

Again, make sure to reflect the grammar of questions questions in the IELTS speaking if the examiner asks you have you traveled to another country?

This will send your grammatical range and accuracy skyrocketing for those higher band scores.

An example of using present perfect to emphasize repetition would be like how many times have you seen Star Wars?

I have seen Star wars, the movie, at least 45 times.

The repetition continued until now, and you might repeat this activity again in the future.

You might watch Star wars one or two more times, depending on how much you really like the film.

I haven't seen any Star wars movies, not even once.

In speaking Part one, the examiner might ask you, how often have you been on the metro?

This shows that this repetition has never occurred.

Change over time is often emphasized with present perfect, like when your relatives show up and they're like, wow, you have grown so much since I've last seen you.

This means that they're emphasizing the change and the surprise of how much you have changed since they last visited.

Or the opposite, wow, this neighborhood hasn't changed at all since we were here 20 years ago.

Have you ever changed your opinion about a color over time and if so, which color and why did your opinion change?

Yes, I have changed my opinion about the color yellow over time.

In my younger years I used to associate yellow with brightness and positivity, but

as I grew up I developed a preference for more calm and subtle colors.

Yellow started to appear too vibrant and too energetic for my taste and I found myself gravitating towards more softer and muted tones.

And hence over the time I have changed my opinion about yellow as my personal preferences and style has evolved.

So when the concepts of achievement expectation change over time, repetition over time and experience come to mind.

Make sure to use Present Perfect so that it becomes a natural part of your English arsenal and you can improve to get those high band scores the next time you sit your IELTS exam.

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