This weekend I had fun with my daughters recording some answers to questions using superlatives and the present perfect. It might be difficult to understand them because they have a way of speaking which is typical for young English girls at the moment: nearly every word is followed by “like”, which they also use as a form of punctuation. It will be interesting to see how many of you can understand what they’re saying!

The present perfect is a great way to find out about people’s life experiences. It doesn’t provide much detail, for that we use the past simple. Superlatives are also limited in their interest, we don’t always want to talk about the best, the worst, the most or least, but they do give us an idea of the highlights and lowlights of our experiences.