HAVE + STH + DONE

Causative have

Lourdes Rodríguez

HAVE + SOMETHING + DONE

What is the difference in meaning?

• She is cutting her hair.

• She is having her hair cut.

HAVE + SOMETHING + DONE

• She is cutting her hair.

• She is having her hair cut.

HAVE + SOMETHING + DONE

How do we build it?

Subject + HAVE + STH + Past. Part.

in any tense

They are having their computer repaired.

You should have your eyes checked regularly.

HAVE SOMETHING DONE

MEANING

If you “have something done”. • You get someone to do something for

you. • You don’t do it yourself.

• She is having her house redecorated. Someone is redecorating her house.

• I had my house painted.Painters painted my house.

her house

my room

Oscar Ceremony

Jane made her dress herself. Last week she still was working very hard to finish it in time for the Oscar Ceremony.

Pe didn’t make her dress herself. She probably paid a lot of money for it. She had her dress made.

Complete the sentence.

Steve and Laura know how to ride a bike, but when the bike has any problem they don’t know how to repair it.

SteveLaura

Steve and Laura’s bike

John

John mends their bike.

What happens when their bike is wrong?

Steve and Laura ...

Complete the sentence.

Steve and Laura know how to ride a bike, but when the bike has any problem they don’t know how to repair it.

SteveLaura

Steve and Laura’s bike

John mends their bike.

Steve and Laura have their bike mended

John

Complete the sentence

John knows a lot about mechanics.

He is repairing his car at the moment.

Susan has had a small accident and she is at the garage now.

She …

Susan

John

Complete the sentence

John knows a lot about mechanics.

He is repairing his car at the moment.

Susan has had a small accident and she is at the garage now.

She is having her car repaired.

Susan

John

Complete the following sentences.

We didn’t go to Telepizza, we …

We didn’t decorate the school ourselves, we …

We don’t clean the windows, we …

Complete the following sentences.

We didn’t go to Telepizza,

we had it delivered

We didn’t decorate the school ourselves, we had it decorated.

We don’t clean the windows, we have them cleaned

by Lourdes Rodríguez

Bilbao, Spain