GRAMMAR: PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE & PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

Please refer to Exercise B on page 35. Match each sentence with one use of the Present Perfect Simple.

The scientist has won many prizes.

• actions that have just finished

• experiences and achievements

• actions that happened in the past but have results that affect the present

• actions that happened at an indefinite time in the past

Please refer to Exercise B on page 35. Match each sentence with one use of the Present Perfect Simple.

The students have just completed a project on the environment.

• actions that have just finished

• experiences and achievements

• actions that happened in the past but have results that affect the present

• actions that happened at an indefinite time in the past

Please refer to Exercise B on page 35. Match each sentence with one use of the Present Perfect Simple.

I can't show you how to use the camera because I haven't read the instructions.

• actions that have just finished

• experiences and achievements

• actions that happened in the past but have results that affect the present

• actions that happened at an indefinite time in the past

Please refer to Exercise B on page 35. Match each sentence with one use of the Present Perfect Simple.

I've lost my map of the rainforest.

• actions that have just finished

• experiences and achievements

• actions that happened in the past but have results that affect the present

• actions that happened at an indefinite time in the past

Please refer to Exercise D on page 35. Match each sentence with one use of the Present Perfect Continuous.

He is sunburnt because he has been walking on the beach.

• for actions that began in the past and are still in progress or have happened repeatedly until now

• for actions that happened for a period of time and have finished, but that have results that affect the present

• to emphasize how long actions have been in progress for

Please refer to Exercise D on page 35. Match each sentence with one use of the Present Perfect Continuous.

We have been recycling for many years.

• for actions that began in the past and are still in progress or have happened repeatedly until now

• for actions that happened for a period of time and have finished, but that have results that affect the present

• to emphasize how long actions have been in progress for

Please refer to Exercise D on page 35. Match each sentence with one use of the Present Perfect Continuous.

The explorers have been travelling through the jungle for ten months.

• for actions that began in the past and are still in progress or have happened repeatedly until now

• for actions that happened for a period of time and have finished, but that have results that affect the present

• to emphasize how long actions have been in progress for

Please refer to Exercise E on page 35. Choose the correct answer.

Many explorers have ____________ to the North Pole.

• go

• been

• going

Please refer to Exercise E on page 35. Choose the correct answer.

Nobody is here. They have ____________ to find new species in the rainforest.

• gone

• been

• going

Please refer to Exercise E on page 35. Choose the correct answer.

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay got to the top of Mount Everest ____________.

• since 1953

• almost 60 years ago

• for almost 60 years ago