PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE

VS.

PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

Contrast of tenses

PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE

VS.

PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

Jméno autora: Mgr. Svatava Spurná

Datum vytvoření VM: 20. 2. 2013

Ročník: 1.- 4.

Tematická oblast: Gramatika – Předpřítomný čas prostý a průběhový/ Grammar – Present Perfect Simple and Continuous

Předmět: Anglický jazyk

Obsah: Obsah se skládá z teoretické a praktické části. Teoretická část shrnuje rozdíly mezi dvěma jmenovanými časy, praktická část procvičuje užití těchto časů a jejich kontrast s časy jinými na různých typech cvičení.

PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

How to form present simple continuous sentences?

have/has + been + V-ing

“I have been waiting for you for ages.”

“She has been learning English since she was eight.”

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EGG_Present_perfect_progressive.svg

PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE CONTINUOUS

Focuses on completed

actions

I’ve read Romeo and Juliet.

It’s great.

Commonly used with

stative verbs

I’ve known him for ages.

Emphasises single

actions

I have already phoned

them.

Focuses on unfinished

actions

I’ve been reading this book

for ages. It’s an unending

story.

Commonly used with

action verbs

I’ve been playing tennis for

four years.

Used for repeated actions

I have been phoning them

all morning.

PRESENT PERFECT

SIMPLE CONTINUOUS Recently completed

actions

He has just left.

Permanent actions/states

I’ve had these earrings

since I was born.

Matter-of-fact

I’ve waited for you for an

hour.

Recently completed

actions

Why are you sweating. I’ve

been running.

Temporary actions/states

I’ve been spending too

much time at work

recently.

Attitude

I’ve been waiting for you

for an hour! This is

unacceptable!

SIMPLE OR CONTINUOUS?

Open the following link and match the

sentences. Then press the “check” button to

check your answers.

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SIMPLE OR CONTINUOUS?

Open the following link and fill in the gaps.

Then press the “check” button to find out how

well you did.

→

For further practice go to:

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs8.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs7.htm

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN DOING?

Look at the following pictures and make sentences

using the present perfect continuous tense to

describe what the person in the picture has been

doing. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scombroid_food_poisoning_red_eyes.jpg

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN DOING?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dirty_dishes.jpg?uselang=cs

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN DOING?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crashed_Porsche_911_(997)_front.jpg?uselang=cs

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN DOING?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zasova_KIC_stavba.JPG?uselang=cs

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN DOING?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amiga-Computer.jpg

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN DOING?

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READ THE SENTENCES, DECIDE WHICH

OF THEM IS THE CORRECT ONE.

A) I have been waiting for you for hours!

Where have you been!

B) I have waited for you for hours! Where

have you been!

A) I have lost my car keys.

B) I have been losing my car keys.

A) She has had this ring since she got married.

B) She has been having this ring since she got married.

I don’t know what’s wrong with them.

A) They have argued all day.

B) They have been arguing all day.

A) How many exercises have you done today?

B) How many exercises have you been doing today?

Five.

“IN THE SHADOWS” – THE RASMUS LISTEN TO THE SONG AND FILL IN THE GAPS.

You will find the song under the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcNktkAWylI

Thank you for

your attention!