has ever ridden a

horse.

has ever swum in

the Mediterranean
sea.

has ever seen

something strange.

has ever seen a

movie with Harrison
Ford.

has ever driven a

car.

has ever seen a

shooting star.

has ever had a best

friend.

has ever been to a

party.

has ever won

something.

has ever kissed

someone.

has ever been to the

mountains.

has ever been given

5 at school.

has ever built a

castle of sand.

has ever played a

PC game.

has ever been to

Prague.

has ever gone

somewhere by train.

has ever tasted

beer.

has ever received a

letter.

has ever been to a

summer camp.

has ever gone to a

concert.

has ever been bitten

by a dog.

has ever fallen of

the bike.

has ever spent the

night in the woods.

has ever had a parttime job.

has ever feared

something.

Find someone who (use Have you ever?+ the item in the box, e.g. Have you ever
ridden a horse?)
Procedure

Depending on the learners level of English, go through the vocabulary, so that the learners have a
clear idea about what this activity is about.
Pupils mingle around the classroom, accosting others to find a person (another pupil) who meets
the requirement in a particular box and ask the person to sign in the box if they meet the
requirement. The one who has collected signatures in all the boxes has won. The stress is on a
dialogue and its form.

Example

has ever fallen of the bike. (as it says in the box).

The have part of the present perfect construction is in the third person, has. The learners thus
have to re-arrange the sentence into a question, using the second person singular (it might me
good to elicit this from the pupils beforehand).
Have you ever fallen of the bike?
The other pupil says: Yes, I have., No, I havent. If the questioned pupil fell off the bike
they will sign under the heading in the box.
Stress the learners should answer in full sentence, only in the above stated form the answer is
valid.

Who is this activity for?

The activity is for body-kinaesthetic learner types and verbal types and also for the pupils with
both inter-personal and intra-personal intelligences. It may let off some of the learners steam if
they are too restless and/or bored.

It may enhance imagination and acquisition of the tense in those learners who have difficulty using
the present perfect.
This activity presupposes some prior pre-teaching stage of the present perfect, so that the learners
are familiar with the concept of time.

Notes

The activities are quite general, so that the pupils should in most cases answer in affirmative.
Also, the adjunct ever is in italics to indicate that it is a key word which signals the present perfect.
When the pupils have played the game some number of times they can come up with their own
suggestions as to what could be included in the boxes. The suggestions should be provided to you
as a teacher in English and privately on a piece of paper, so that the other pupils do not know.
Whether or not to include queries such as Have you ever flown by the UFO? or the like is up to
you.