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Taller de Present Perfect Continuous

The document is a worksheet for a 9th grade Spanish class. It contains exercises to practice the present perfect continuous tense. The exercises include filling in verbs in the correct tense, forming questions, and reading comprehension questions about situations using the tense.

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Taller de Present Perfect Continuous

The document is a worksheet for a 9th grade Spanish class. It contains exercises to practice the present perfect continuous tense. The exercises include filling in verbs in the correct tense, forming questions, and reading comprehension questions about situations using the tense.

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ESCUELA NORMAL SUPERIOR DE PIEDECUESTA

THIRD TERM- NINETH GRADE Worksheet 1-2021


Teacher: Nelly Esperanza Aconcha

Name: ______________________________________________________

TALLER DE PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS


We use it to emphasize
duration or repetition, the
amount of time that an
action has been taking place.

Time Expressions: lately,


recently, for, since, how long,
all day / morning / week

Sadie has been learning


Chinese for three months.

How long have you been


standing there?

We don’t usually use stative


verbs in the continuous form.

I have known Jessica since


high school.

1. Put the verbs in brackets into the present perfect continuous tense
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I have known Jessica since
high school.

1. Put the verbs in brackets into the present perfect continuous tense

1. I (make) cakes. That is why my hands are all covered with flour.
2. Her phone (ring) for ten minutes. I wonder why she doesn't answer it.
3. He (overwork). That is why he looks so tired.
4. Have you seen my bag anywhere? I (look) for it for ages.
5. What (you / do)? I (work) in the laboratory.
6. He (study) Russian for two years and doesn't even know the alphabet yet.
7. How long (you / wait) for me? I (wait) about half an hour.
8. It (rain) for two days now. There'll be a flood soon.
9. (Mary/cry)? No, she (not cry), she (peel) onions.
10. You (drive) all day. Let me drive now.

2. Rewrite the sentences using present perfect continuous. Use the words in brackets.

1. I’m quite good at English now . (learn 3 years) I


2. There’s green paint in your hair. (do)? What
3. They’re very tired. (work/all day) They
4. Your little sister’s brilliant at football. (play)? How long
5. This is such a long car journey! (drive/ 3 hours) We
6. He’s shivering. The water in the pool was very cold. (swim) He
7. She’s talking to Max on the phone. (for hours) They
8. We’ve been in the library. (read / all afternoon) We
9. The baby doesn’t stop crying. (all day) The baby
10. I don’t like this new school. (not have / a good time) I

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Pre sent Perfect Continuou s
1. Look at the pictures and complete the sentences. Use verbs from the box. Follow
the example.

talk make wait paint shop

I’ve been waiting for a long time. They all morning.

Lucia since 5 o’clock. My mom a cake.

2. Order the words and form questions.

talking on been she the phone Has ?

been baseball playing Jane and Erick ? Have

Has Saturday drawing she since ? been

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Unit
Exercises 9
9.1 What have these people been doing or what has been happening?
1 earlier 2 earlier 3 earlier 4 earlier

now now now now

It’s been raining. She They He

9.2 Write a question for each situation.


1 You meet Kate as she is leaving the swimming pool. You say:
Hi, Kate. (you / swim?) Have you been swimming?
2 You have arrived a little late to meet Ben who is waiting for you. You say:
I’m sorry I’m late, Ben. (you / wait / long?)
3 Jane’s little boy comes into the house with a very dirty face and dirty hands. His mother says:
Why are you so dirty? (what / you / do?)
4 You are in a shop and see Anna. You didn’t know she worked there. You say:
Hi, Anna. (how long / you / work / here?)
5 A friend tells you about his job – he sells phones. You say:
You sell phones? (how long / you / do / that?)
9.3 Read the situations and complete the sentences.
1 It’s raining. The rain started two hours ago.
It ’s been raining for two hours.
2 We are waiting for the bus. We started waiting 20 minutes ago.
We for 20 minutes.
3 I’m learning Japanese. I started classes in December.
I since December.
4 Jessica is working in a hotel. She started working there on 18 January.
since 18 January.
5 Our friends always go to Italy for their holidays. The first time was years ago.
for years.
9.4 Put the verb into the present continuous (am/is/are + -ing) or present perfect continuous (have/has
been + -ing).
1 Maria has been learning (Maria / learn) English for two years.
2 Hi, Tom. (I / look) for you. I need to ask you something.
3 Why (you / look) at me like that? Stop it!
4 Rachel is a teacher. (she / teach) for ten years.
5 (I / think) about what you said and I’ve decided to take
your advice.
6 ‘Is Paul on holiday this week?’ ‘No, (he / work).’
7 Sarah is very tired. (she / work) very hard recently.
8 It’s dangerous to use your phone when (you / drive).
9 Laura (travel) in South America for the last three months.

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