Система упражнений на тему The Perfect Continuous Form

The Perfect Continuous Form The Perfect Continuous обозначает действие в процессе, которое длится до определенного момента в настоящем, прошлом или будущем.

Present

Past

Future

1. I have been reading the book for a week.(Переводится настоящим временем - началось в прошлом и продолжается сейчас)

2.I am very tired, I have been reading a lot. (Переводится прошедшим временем - началось в прошлом и уже закончилось)

1. I had been reading the book for a week, when you asked me for it.

2. I was very tired, I had been reading a lot.

(Переводится прошедшим временем.)

1. By the 1st of May

I shall have been reading the book for a fortnight.

Have/has been + Ving

(for five minutes, since January)

Had been + Ving

Shall/will have been + Ving

Образцы употребления в Present:

1. I have been teaching at this school for 20 years. _____________________________________

2. Your eyes are red. You have been crying. __________________________________________

3. How have you been spending your money? -

I have been buying pictures. _________________________________________________

Сравните:

I am reading " Dombey and Son" ___________________________________________________

I have been reading "Dombey and

Son" for three days. ___________________________________________________

4. Why are your lips black? - I have

been eating blackberries. I have eaten

a whole plateful. __________________________________________________

Past:

1. I had been reading about a hour

when he came. ____________________________________________________

2. We could not go out because it

had been raining since early morning. __________________________________________________

3. He had been waiting for two hours. ________________________________________________

Future:

If they don't come soon, I will

have been waiting for almost an hour. __________________________________________________

Present Perfect vs Present Perfect Continuous

( Результат действия - сколько сделано? ) (Длительность действия - как долго?)

I have done 10 exercises. I have been doing maths exercises since 9 o'clock.

_____________________________________ __________________________________________

How many pages have you read? - 20. How long have you been reading this book? -

For an hour.

_____________________________________ __________________________________________

Past Perfect Past Perfect Continuous

(Предшествует другому прошедшему Началось в прошлом и все еще происходило,

действию) когда началось другое прошедшее действие)

They arrived at the cinema late and found She had been learning English for a year

that the film has already begun. before she understood a word.

Future Perfect. Future Perfect Continuous.

I shall be tired when I arrive. I'll have I'll be tired when I arrive. I'll have been

walked ten kilometers. walking for two hours.

__________________________________ _______________________________________

E X E R C I S E S.

1. Match:

He's got a walkman. They have been playing football.

The street is wet. She has been sending messages.

Ann's holding a cell phone. It has been raining.

The boys are on the beach. He has been listening to music.

My friends are in the park. He has been doing a crossword.

He's got a pencil in his hand. She has been writing on the blackboard.

The teacher's got a chalk in her hand. They have been sunbathing.

2. Use the verbs in brackets in the Present Perfect Continuous:

1.They (travel) ____________________________________ around the world for 3 months.

2.Tanya (play) __________________________________ the piano since she started school.

3.We (study) __________________________________ History for two hours.

4.I (wait) ______________________________________ for a bus for half an hour.

5.Bess and Lisa (live) _________________________________ in London since June.

6.They (make) ________________________________________ sandwiches since 2 o'clock.

7.He (paint) ___________________________________________ this picture for a year.

3. Fill in SINCE or FOR:

1. I have been living at my present address ___________ a month.

2.Tim has been learning French _____________ three years.

3. Liz has been studying English _____________ 9 o'clock.

4. She hasn't been talking to him _____________ he moved to Germany.

5. They haven't been sleeping ________________ the baby was born.

4.Use Perfect or Perfect Continuous:

1. Be quiet, please. I (correct) __________________________________ your tests.

I __________________________________ only half of them.

2.How many cards (write) ______________ you ________________________? - Only 5. And I

____________________________________ since 8 o'clock.

3.____ we (arrive) _________ yet? - No, not yet. But we (drive) ____________________ for 8 hours.

4.She's desperate. She (eat) _____________________________________ chocolates since her boyfriend left her. -How many boxes of chocolates ________ she (eat) _______________? -Three!

5.I (wait) ________________________________ for you for ages. Where ______ you(be) _______?

6.She (shop) ________________________________________________ since 9 o'clock this morning and she (not buy) ________________________________________ anything yet.

7.How much of the novel (read) ____________________________________________?

How long (read) ______________________________________________ it?

8. We stopped working. We (do) ____________________________ what we could.

9. We stopped working. We (work) ________________________________ all day.

10. By the end of his stay in Mexico, Ben (learn) __________________________ Spanish for a month.

Total - 36, your result - , your mark - .