Unit 14: New Year, New Project
Present perfect with just, already and yet
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- 1 Nice to meet you!
- 2 What to wear
- 3 Like this, like that
- 4 The daily grind
- 5 Christmas every day
- 6 Great achievers
- 7 The Titanic
- 8 Travel
- 9 The big wedding
- 10 Sunny's job hunt
- 11 The bucket list
- 12 Moving and migration
- 13 Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
- 14 New Year, New Project
- 15 From Handel to Hendrix
- 16 What's the weather like?
- 17 The Digital Revolution
- 18 A detective story
- 19 A place to live
- 20 The Cult of Celebrity
- 21 Welcome to your new job
- 22 Beyond the planets
- 23 Great expectations!
- 24 Eco-tourism
- 25 Moving house
- 26 It must be love
- 27 Job hunting success... and failure
- 28 Speeding into the future
- 29 Lost arts
- 30 Tales of survival
Session 1
Rob and Finn share their ideas for the New Year. Finn wants to be healthy - but can he stick to his plans? We also take a look at the words just, already and yet with the present perfect tense.
Activity 2
Finn's fibs
A vegetarian breakfast...?
Finn told a few fibs about his New Year's resolutions. Naughty! Let's look at what he said in more detail. Look out for the present perfect tense with the words just, already and yet in this activity - we'll be studying them later on...
Read the text and complete the activity

To do
See if you can catch Finn out in this game.
Liar, liar...
5 Questions
Read Finn and Rob's sentences about their New Year's resolutions and decide whether they are telling the truth... or fibbing.
Help
Activity
Read Finn and Rob's sentences about their New Year's resolutions and decide whether they are telling the truth... or fibbing.
Hint
He's eating a full English breakfast...Help
Activity
Read Finn and Rob's sentences about their New Year's resolutions and decide whether they are telling the truth... or fibbing.
Hint
What is he drinking?Help
Activity
Read Finn and Rob's sentences about their New Year's resolutions and decide whether they are telling the truth... or fibbing.
Hint
Is he wearing sports clothes?Help
Activity
Read Finn and Rob's sentences about their New Year's resolutions and decide whether they are telling the truth... or fibbing.
Hint
He knows the Spanish words for eggs, bacon, sausage...Help
Activity
Read Finn and Rob's sentences about their New Year's resolutions and decide whether they are telling the truth... or fibbing.
Hint
Is he wearing sports clothes?Question 1 of 5
He's telling the truth
He's fibbing
Excellent! Great job! Bad luck! You scored:
Liar, liar...
5 Questions
Read Finn and Rob's sentences about their New Year's resolutions and decide whether they are telling the truth... or fibbing.
Help
Activity
Read Finn and Rob's sentences about their New Year's resolutions and decide whether they are telling the truth... or fibbing.
Hint
He's eating a full English breakfast...Question 1 of 5
Help
Activity
Read Finn and Rob's sentences about their New Year's resolutions and decide whether they are telling the truth... or fibbing.
Hint
What is he drinking?Question 2 of 5
Help
Activity
Read Finn and Rob's sentences about their New Year's resolutions and decide whether they are telling the truth... or fibbing.
Hint
Is he wearing sports clothes?Question 3 of 5
Help
Activity
Read Finn and Rob's sentences about their New Year's resolutions and decide whether they are telling the truth... or fibbing.
Hint
He knows the Spanish words for eggs, bacon, sausage...Question 4 of 5
Help
Activity
Read Finn and Rob's sentences about their New Year's resolutions and decide whether they are telling the truth... or fibbing.
Hint
Is he wearing sports clothes?Question 5 of 5
Excellent! Great job! Bad luck! You scored:
Next
Well done. We'll look again at just, already and yet in Session 2. But before that, let's do some vocabulary work. Consider the word ice cream. 'Eating less ice cream' was one of the possible resolutions in Activity 1. But what do you call a noun with two parts like ice cream? Find out in 6 Minute Vocabulary, next!
Session Vocabulary
to sign up
(here) to join a course or organisationfibs
lies about things that aren't important