Grammar exercises about the present perfect (and other verb tenses)

I've done some exercises to practise a bit the present perfect tense and I've also done a test which includes all the verb tenses. This last one was the most difficult, but I've learned new things.

3 experiences I've already had and 1 I want to live in the future

One very big experience in my life has been when I moved with my parents from my native country Germany to Spain. It was a very difficult time for me because I had to leave my friends there. I have to admit that my friends have always been very important for me. And I also have to admit that I was very immature. I was 12 years old and people may think it's normal to be quite immature at that age. But thinking now about my past and my acts in that time I opine I didn't understand a lot of things which other boys and girls at the same age understood. But this experience also helped me see that the whole world is not only the place where you live. It may sound absurd, but you really notice that the world has so many places and everyone is completely different from the other one. And it helped me form my own opinion for things, to see things from different points of view and to decide what is what I want in the future.

Another experience which has changed me definitely is one from last year. It's a bit private and I don't want to explain the details of what happened, but I try to tell it in a general way. I trusted too much a person who actually only was my friend for his/her own motives and to reach his/her own objectives. I lived in a kind of illusion and I didn't mind really what that person was doing with me. And the worst thing is that what happened in that time didn't just affect me but also my friends. I needed a lot of time to understand everything and to realize that I had to change. And to trust just in the people who are really worth it.

And to return a bit to the first topic, my third and last important experience has been the summer 2010. It was the first time I could go back to where I come from. And it was the first time I could finally see my family and my friends after two long years. It was a very moving moment and it made me very happy to see the reactions of the people when I returned. My best friend from Germany didn't really believe it was really me who talked to him (I didn't tell I would come, I like surprises) and when he realized that it was real he smiled in a way I will never forget. It was just so refreshing to be with the people I lived with for 12 years. And to see that their life continued and some things have changed. But that the essential things, like our relationship, haven't been affected.

One experience I want to live in future is to travel around the world. It's a typical thing a lot of people say when you ask for a dream they want to make come true one day. But if so many people say this, there will be some good reasons for it, don't you think? For me, despite all the difficulties and bad moments I passed, it has been interesting to come here to Spain and to see how the people are here and how the culture is here. It made me grow up. It made me gain richness. Richness of a kind you count count in coins or bills. Richness in a cultural way, gaining more knowledge. Knowledge for the whole life or to say it another way: experience. And there's one country I'm especially interested to go to. I've always been a big fan of video games and anime (animated cartoons of Japan). Playing and watching them and informing yourself about them, you get a picture of the place where all this comes from. And I want to see how Japan really is, the land where the sun rises. Also, it's so different from our occidental world, but even though it's a very developed country.


So, now you've done a little tour through me and my life. I hope you liked it and it could be expedient for you, in any way.