Present Perfect Continuous

42. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form of the present perfect continuous.

1. Tania …………………. for her piano recital all week. (practice)

2. ……………….. English lessons for four years? (Jimmy/take)

3. How long ………………. children’s books? (Jenny/write)

4. we ……………….. flowers all afternoon. (plant)

5. Pam ……………….. since she was 17 years old. (drive)

6. ……………….. TV all weekend? (Peter and Paul/watch)

7. It ……………….. for two days. (rain)

8. They ………………. since 9:00 this morning. (shop)

43. What have these people been doing? Make sentences using an appropriate verb in the present perfect continuous.

1. Catherine went to the supermarket an hour ago. She’s still there.

Catherine has been shopping for an hour.

2. My mum began cooking three hour ago. She hasn’t finished yet.

3. The teams started playing football twenty minutes ago. They haven’t stopped yet.

4. The headmaster started speaking two hours ago. He hasn’t stopped yet.

5. Bill began building his house six months ago. He hasn’t finished it yet.

6. I started doing my homework three hours ago. I haven/t finished it yet.

44. Mary is reading some letters. Put the verbs in brackets into the present perfect continuous or the present perfect simple.

A …I’m planning to buy a new house. I 1) …have been looking … (look) for one for two months now. So far I 2) ……………….. (look) at ten houses, but I 3) ……………….. (not/find) one I like.

B … My Spanish lessons are going very well. I 1) ……………….. (learn) Spanish for five months now and I love it. I 2) ……………….. (already/learn) a lot.

C … John 1) ……………….. (be) very busy recently. He 2) ………………… (paint) the living-room and the bedrooms, but he 3) ………………… (not/start) painting the kitchen yet.