present and past perfect continuous tense

Uses

2. Recently, Lately

+ Present perfect continuous can also

use without a duration, it means
lately.

+ Example:

• Recently, I have been feeling really

tired.

• She has been watching too much

television lately.

• Have you been exercising lately?

Exercise 1

1.

She has been working

(work) here for five years.

2.

I have been studying

(study) all day.

3.

You

(eat) a lot recently.

4.

We

(live) in London for six months.

5.

You haven’t been eating (not/eat) well recently.

6.

We

haven’t been exercising (not/exercise) enough.

7.

She

(not/study).

8.

(Julia/work) in this company for more than five years?

9.

Have you been studying

(you/study) English for a long time?

10.

Have i been doing

(I/do) too much recently?

11.

(you/not/shoot) this video for the whole week?

Present Perfect or Present Perfect

Continuous?

Robin: I think the waiter

has forgotten

(forget) us. We

(wait) here for

over half an hour and nobody

has taken

(take) our order yet.

Michele: I think you're right. He

(walk) by us at least twenty times. He

probably thinks we

(order, already).

Robin: Look at that couple over there, they

(be, only) here for five or

ten minutes and they already have their food.

Michele: He must realize we

(order, not)yet! We

(sit) here for over

half an hour staring at him.

Robin: I don't know if he

(notice, even) us. He

(run) from table

to table taking orders and serving food.

Michele: That's true, and he

(look, not) in our direction once.

Exercise
Make the past perfect continuous tense.

1.

I

(work) all day, so I didn't want to go out.

2.

She

(sleep) for ten hours when I woke her.

3.

They

(live) in Beijing for three years when he lost his job.

4.

When we met, you

(work) at that company for six months.

5.

We

(eat) all day, so we felt a bit ill.

6.

He was red in the face because he

(run) .

7.

It

(rain) and the road was covered in water.

8.

I was really tired because I

(study) .

9.

We

(go) out for three years when we got married.

10.

It

(snow) for three days.

11.

James

(not/ garden) for a month, so his garden is full of weeds.

12.

Lily

(work) on her model all day yesterday?