1.5 Present Perfect Continuous

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How do you make a present perfect?

Present Continuous

Present Perfect Continuous?

It has been raining all morning.

It has rained, so there's a puddle

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Sentences that illustrate difference between the present perfect and present perfect continuous (1):

I’ve been decorating the house this summer (P.P.C).
The focus is on the action taking place – decorating – and the action is unfinished.

I’ve painted the house blue (P.P).
The focus is on the finished result. The activity is finished but we can see the result now.

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

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

You emphasise the fact that something has been happening a lot recently.

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

This action has started in the past and is still ongoing at present.

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Past simple- past continuous

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I've been looking forward to the holidays!

1. Past Perfect Continuous
2. Present Perfect Continuous
3. Present Perfect
4. Present Continuous

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She'd been paying attention all lesson!

1. Past Perfect
2. Past Simple
3. Past Perfect Continuous
4. Past Continuous

We have worked really hard

1. Present perfect
2. Present perfect continous
3. Past perfect
4. Past perfect continuous

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I ………………… this laptop for five years. (use)

The workers ………………….. higher wages for a long time. (demand)

‘You look tired.’ ‘Yes, I …………………….’ (run)

He …………………… in the garden since this morning. (work)

Fill in the present perfect continuous
I ... ... ... you for such a long time

Fill in the present perfect continuous:
I ... ... ... about you

Fill in the present perfect continuous:
All my life I ... ... ... for you to bring a fairy tale my way

Fill in the present perfect continuous:
I've got a hangover I ... ... ... too much for sure

Fill in the present perfect continuous:
I ... ... ... for a girl like you to come into my life

Fill in the present perfect continuous:
Seems I ... ... ... in the wrong direction

Fill in the present perfect continuous:
I know you ... ... ... yourself wrong.

My parents _____ the walls of my bedroom blue.

1. have been painting
2. have painted

I______ the house this summer.

1. have been decorating
2. have decorated

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

She ______ on her drawing for 3 hours now.

1. worked
2. have worked
3. has worked
4. has been working

I usually work in London but I_____ in Birmingham for the last 3 weeks.

1. have worked
2. have been working

I _____ here before. I temporarily switched jobs ten years ago, but now I am back.

1. have been working
2. have worked

He ______ soccer in the courtyard all afternoon.

1. has played
2. has been playing

He _____tennis since he was a little boy.

1. has played
2. has been playing

The weather forecasts had predicted otherwise, but it ______ for the past two hours.

1. has rained
2. has been raining

Daniel... _______? You look exhausted!

1. have you run
2. have you been running

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