 7. Activities for teaching the present perfect for the ESL classroom. Teaching new tenses to students of a foreign language, is often not as easy as you might anticipate, especially when the tense you are trying to teach them does not exist in their native language. The following 7 activities for teaching the present perfect for the ESL classroom will help your students pick up the tense in no time. 1. Great accomplishments. 2. Have you ever? 3. How many times since? 4. Great ambitions. 5. Most deprived. 6. Bucket lists. 7. Since or for? These 7 activities for teaching the present perfect for the ESL classroom are ideal to help your students understand the structure and usage of the present perfect. Thanks so much for watching. We are ITTT, the leading provider for TEFL and TSOL training courses. If you like this video, please subscribe by clicking the button down here and click on any of the videos here on the left for more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online.