Present Perfect Songs - U2

The best present perfect song is "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" by U2. It has about 10 examples of the present perfect in the lyrics.

You can find the video and cloze exercise below. Feel free to print it out for your students when you are teaching them the present perfect.

One interesting activity with this song is to find the present perfect mistake (I have spoke). That really gets them thinking about the verb tense and the past participles. 

You may also like to ask them, "What have you done for love? Have you done as much as the singer?

Enjoy the video and cloze.

U2“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”

I have climbed highest _______________
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
Only to be with you
I have run
I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city ____________
Only to be with you

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

I have kissed honey ________________
Felt the healing fingertips
It burned like a fire
This burning ___________________

I have spoke with a ton of angels
I have held the hand of a ________________
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for

I believe in the Kingdom Come
When all the ______________________ will bleed into one
Bleed into one
Well, yes I'm still running

You broke the bonds
And you loosened the _________________
Carried the cross
Of all my shame
all my shame
You know I _____________________ it

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for