BUSINESS ENGLISH PARIS: PRESENT
PERFECT VS SIMPLE PAST
Teaching Business English has its
challenges and one of the biggest challenges I have had as a Business English coach is explaining to my
students when to use the Simple Past and when to use the Present Perfect. I
think the problem is that for native speakers, we often don’t care about the
grammatical rules and we conflate these two tenses quite a lot, and we never
really think about what differentiates them. So, when it is time to explain to
an English learner how to choose between the two, I often feel like a deer in
headlights.
