Present Perfect ProgressivePresent Perfect Progressive

GRAMMAR

Work in pairs and choose the most appropriate form. Write your options on a piece of paper.

1. We have been driving /drove / drive around for an hour and we are still lost. Let’s stop and ask somebody.

2. I have been reading / read /have read that book. Do you have another one to lend me?

3. It rained / has rained /has been raining all day! When is it going to stop?

I’ve been working in the garden. That’s why I’m so tired.

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It has been raining for two hours.

It began raining two hours ago.

It is still raining now.

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Present Perfect Progressive: Uses • Activity that started in the past and

continues now. It has been raining for two hours. I’ve been living in this house for two years.

• Activity that started in the past and has recently finished. There is a present result of that activity.

I’ve been working in the garden. That’s why I’m so dirty.

We’ve been walking for hours! I’m so tired!

Present Perfect Progressive: Form

I You

We Theyhave

BEEN working

He She It has

I You

We Theyhave

NOT BEEN working

He She It has

haveI you

we they BEEN working ?

has he she it

Work in pairs again and reconsider your sentences.

1. We have been driving /drove / drive around for an hour and we are still lost. Let’s stop and ask somebody.

2. I have been reading / read /have read that book. Do you have another one to lend me?

3. It rained / has rained /has been raining all day! When is it going to stop?