PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

If a teacher says to student "you haven't finished the task", can the student still do it?

yes/no

PRESENT PERFECT

• Usually used for life experience

• Time is not important

• It started in the past and has continued to the present

• talk about something that recently happened

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Multiple Select

_______been to England?

• Has you

• Have you

• How you

• Does you

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John: There's an English pub near my work.

Alex: Oh, ________________?

John: No, but I would like try it.

• have you considered telling the truth

• has anyone seen my keys

• how have you been

• have you been there before

Multiple Select

Ron: Dad? Can I go to my friend's house?

Dad:____________________?

Ron: Yes, I have.

Dad: Okay, go ahead, but please be home by 8 pm.

• Have you finished your homework

• Have you eaten there before

• What have you done

• How long have you been there?

Multiple Select

Kathleen: _______________?

Amanda: Yes, they're on your desk.

• Have I see my keys

• Has you seen my keys

• Have you seen my keys

• Have seen you my keys

Multiple Select

Greg: It sounds like you've been working a lot lately. _________________________?

Chad: Yes. I want to go to Hawaii next summer.

• You have considered taking a vacation

• Have you considered taking a vacation

• How you considered taking a vacation

• Has that ever happened before

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?

• We have worked hard all our lives

• We have been working hard on this project.

PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

• We use Present Perfect Simple when we want to emphasize the action being complete or being permanent.

• We use Present Perfect Continuous, in turn, when we want to emphasize that the action is in the middle, unfinished. It can also imply that that state is temporary.

Multiple Choice

You have been running in circles ____ 30 minutes!

• since

• for

Multiple Choice

_____ she _____ ___________ (to buy) clothes on internet?

• Has / being / buying

• Has / been / buying

• Have /been / buying

• Has / been / buy

Multiple Choice

Omar ___________ (to do) his homework for 1 hour.

• have been doing

• has been doing

• has being doing

• have being doing

Multiple Choice

He hasn't been going to school ____ last year.

• since

• for

• then

• during

Multiple Choice

My parents ___________ (to talk) with my sister for hours.

• have been talking

• has been talking

Multiple Choice

The Present Perfect Continuous answers the question...

• how long

• how much

• how often

• how are you

Multiple Choice

The formula of the Present Perfect Continuous is...

• have been + Ving

• have been + Ved

• have/has been + Ving

• has been + Ving

Multiple Choice

The Present Perfect Continuous says ...

• when the action started.

• how long the action was in progress.

• when the action finished.

• how often the action happens.