Unit 4 NCE INTERMEDIATE

What is the Structure of the Present Perfect Continuous?

• S+BEEN+ VERB WITH ING+COMPLEMENT

• S+WAS/WERE+ VERB WITH ING+ COMPLEMENT

• S+BEEN+VERB IN PAST PARTICIPLE+COMPLEMENT

• S+BEEN+VERB INFINITIVE+COMPLEMENT

Complete this sentence in Present Perfect Continuous.

It ____ / ___ raining, the pavement is wet.

• Have/been

• Has/been

• Has/rain

• Has/be

He....(work) ......in this company since 1985.

• has been working

• working

• work

• is work

How long...(learn / you)...English?

• have you learning

• has you been learning

• have been learning

• have you been learning

_______ Jim ________ doing exercise?

• Has/been

• Been/has

• Have/ been

• Been/have

Which tense is used to talk about actions that have just finished?

• future tense

• past tense

• imperfect tense

• present perfect tense

Which prepositions are commonly used with the present perfect continuous tense to indicate the duration of an action?

• during

• until

• from

• for, since

Yes I'm _____ working in the same company.

• yet

• still

• already

• just

I don't have a lot of money at the moment because I ________ to buy a car.

• have saved up

• have been saving up

• saved up

She ______ in Germany, France Italy and now she wants to move to France.

• has lived

• has been living

• lived