4H Present Perfect & Perfect Continuous

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Welcome!

Road map

• Recap Past Simple & Present Perfect
• Discuss 1.1C
• Grammar Present Perfect & Perfect Continuous 
• Work on assignments
• Discuss 1.1D

Books: your MO on the books you have read should be finished in the test week of period 2!

Lesson Goal

At the end of this class you 

apply the past simple and the present perfect correctly

and

you can recognise the perfect continuous, know how to form them, and when to use it. 

Past simple - timeline

Past Continuous - timeline

Past simple & continuous -timeline

Present perfect: Iets is in het verleden begonnen en gaat nog door of heeft nog duidelijk effect op het heden.

Present Perfect 

De Present Perfect bestaat uit 

have/has + voltooid deelwoord (werkwoord+ed of 3e rijtje onregelmatige werkwoorden).

Present Perfect - use

• it's the result that counts! 
• there is always a link with the present
• something has started in the past and continues up until the now.
• signal words for the present perfect: for, yet, ever, never, just, since, so far, lately, all day/week etc, how long

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Perfect Continuous

De Perfect Continuous bestaat uit 

has/have + been + ww-ing 

Perfect Continuous - Use 

I have been holding on to pieces

swimming in the deep end         - Tom Grennan (2021)

1. temporary actions and situations (with emphasis on the time that has passed). 

compare:   The man has been standing on the corner all day.

                        For 900 years, the castle has stood on the hill. 

Perfect Continuous - Use 

2.  continuous change/continuous actions and situations that last until the present and/or beyond. 

e.g. Scientists believe that the universe has been expanding steadily since the beginning of time. 

3. When the sentence uses a definite amount/number use the present perfect and not the perfect continuous!

Online explanations: EngelsAcademie.nl on YouTube

Looking ahead

24/09: Test Alquin keywords. BRING YOUR ENGLISH BOOK!

28/09: no class

30/09: Grammar, study the tenses you have learnt so far

Learnbeat 1.1A-D/GRO 1.1-1.4.

01/10:  Examtext 1 on Learnbeat 

8/10: test GRO 1.1 - 1.4 / Learnbeat 1.1A-F