Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Today:

- Check Words 1C

- Check Grammar Reader

- Reading

- Word Opposites 

- Past Perfect + Past Perfect Continuous

Read text 2B

- underline vocabulary words you do not know

- Word forms text 2b. p. 16 Grammar reader

In pairs:

- person 1 translates the words

- person 2 translates the words above

- Match them together :) 

Present perfect

has/have + past participle 

iets zeggen over het verleden wat nu nog van belang is

“I have worked as an engineer for 2 years.”

Present perfect continuous

has/have + been + verb + ing

Iets zeggen over situaties die zijn begonnen in het verleden en doorlopen in het heden.

“I have been waiting here for an hour.”

Sentences that illustrate difference between the present perfect and present perfect continuous (2):

I have worked here for most of my life (P.P.)

iets zeggen over een actie of gebeurtenis die permanent of van lange duur is.

It has been raining for the past two days (P.P.C)

Een herhaalde actie beschrijven die is begonnen in het verleden en doorloopt in het heden.

He                                                            in the shed for days.

has

hiding

been

hid

My parents _____ the walls of my bedroom blue.

1. have been painting
2. have painted

I _____ that book you lent me. I finished it yesterday.

1. am reading
2. has read
3. have read
4. will read

I _____ that book you lent me. I have still got another 50 pages to read.

1. read
2. have read
3. have been reading
4. have reading

I ________ in the office for more than an hour before the boss finally arrived. (wait)

1. had waited
2. had been waiting
3. had wait
4. had waiting

She ______ out when I called her.
(just / go)

1. had just go
2. had just going
3. had just gone
4. had went

Now you:

- Do exercise 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 p. 25 of your grammar reader.

- Finish words Text 2B p. 16 grammar reader. 

- Study Vocabulary