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Jun 2023
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Podcast 162. Who's afraid of present per...

M. A. Bilbrough
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In today's podcast, I'm going to show you how to use present perfect, and that if you avoid present perfect, you may lose points in your Cambridge exam, especially at B1 level and above. I'm going to play some extracts from my stories here on Practising English as examples of present perfect use. I include the transcript so you can listen and read. See tran ... Show More
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