Worksheets

📝 Student Instruction: Present Perfect Continuous Tense

1. When do we use it?

• To talk about an action that started in the past and is still continuing now.
  • She has been studying English for 2 years.
• To talk about an action that just stopped but we can still see the result.
  • He is tired because he has been running.

2. Form

• Affirmative (+): Subject + have/has + been + verb+ing
  • I have been reading for one hour.
  • She has been cooking since 5 p.m.
• Negative (–): Subject + have/has + not + been + verb+ing
  • I haven’t been sleeping well.
  • He hasn’t been working today.
• Question (?): Have/Has + subject + been + verb+ing
  • Have you been waiting long?
  • Has she been studying?

3. Key words / Time expressions

• for (a period of time) → for two hours, for three days
• since (a starting point) → since Monday, since 2010
• how long …? → How long have you been living here?

4. Examples

• I have been learning English for five years.
• She has been waiting for the bus since 8 o’clock.
• Have they been playing football all day?

👉 Practice Example:
Change the verb into Present Perfect Continuous.

1. I (work) here since 2020. → I have been working here since 2020.
2. She (not sleep) well lately. → She hasn’t been sleeping well lately.
3. (you / study) for the exam? → Have you been studying for the exam?

Student complete the excercise

Use Conditional1

Listen the recording and choose the best answers.

Listen again. Put a tick (✓) next to the correct way and a cross (x) next to the wrong way to use RoboVacuum.
 

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This exam is made for the students to practice for a final test

Use the words in the box to complete each question.

Students learn how to write about themselves appropriately.

UNIT 2. TEST

Answer the worksheet using the words that you have learnt today in the lesson ( Pages 36 - 37)

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