1. HAVE + STH + DONE
Causative have

2. HAVE + SOMETHING + DONE What is the difference in meaning?
She is cutting her hair.
She is having her hair cut.

3. HAVE + SOMETHING + DONE She is cutting her hair.
She is having her hair cut.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. Complete the sentence.
Steve
Steve and Laura know how to ride a bike, but when the bike has any problem they don’t know how to repair it.
Laura
John
John mends their bike.
What happens when their bike is wrong?
Steve and Laura ...
Steve and Laura’s bike

8. Complete the sentence.
Steve
Steve and Laura know how to ride a bike, but when the bike has any problem they don’t know how to repair it.
Laura
John
John mends their bike.
Steve and Laura have their bike mended
Steve and Laura’s bike

9. Complete the sentence John knows a lot about mechanics.
He is repairing his car at the moment.
Susan
Susan has had a small accident and she is at the garage now.
She …

10. Complete the sentence John knows a lot about mechanics.
He is repairing his car at the moment.
Susan
Susan has had a small accident and she is at the garage now.
She is having her car repaired.

11. Complete the following sentences.
We didn’t decorate the school ourselves, we …
We didn’t go to Telepizza, we …
We don’t clean the windows, we …

12. Complete the following sentences.
We didn’t decorate the school ourselves, we had it decorated.
We didn’t go to Telepizza,
we had it delivered
We don’t clean the windows, we have them cleaned

13. HAVE SOMETHING DONE VS GET SOMEONE TO DO STH
I HAD MY CLOTHES IRONED.
You pay someone to do it for you.
I GOT MY HUSBAND TO IRON THE CLOTHES.
You ask someone to do the job for you.
Normally, it implies you had to convince the
person to perform the action.
I HAD MY COMPOSITION WRITTEN.
 I GOT MY FRIEND TO HELP ME WITH MY COMPOSITION.

14. GET SOMEONE TO DO STH John arrived on time because I told him so.
I got John to arrive on time.
My husband looked after our children because I convinced him to do so.
I got my husband to look after our children.
The students stopped sleeping in class because I managed to make the lesson interesting.
I got the students to stop sleeping in class.
The teenagers went to bed early because I told them so.
I got the teenagers to go to bed early.
The shop assistant gave me a discount. I convinced her.
I got the shop assistant to give me a discount.