Tenses chapter 4

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Good morning

Lesson plan

• Lesson aims
• Grammar practice
• Present perfect continuous
• Past perfect
• Recap lesson aims
• Homework

Lesson aims

After this lesson you:

• Understand the past perfect;
• Understand the present perfect continuous.

Which of the following sentences is in present perfect continuous tense?

1. She has been studying English since last year.
2. She studied English last year.
3. She will study English next year.
4. She had studied English before she moved to the United States.

What is the structure of present perfect continuous tense?

1. Subject + past tense + present participle
2. Subject + have/has + been + present participle
3. Subject + will + be + present participle
4. Subject + verb + object

Which of the following is a correct present perfect continuous sentence?

1. I have been working on this project for three hours.
2. I had worked on this project for three hours.
3. I worked on this project for three hours.
4. I will work on this project for three hours.

We ... (to walk) down this road for ages. (present perfect continuous)

They ... (to talk) to each other for three hours now. (PPC)

She ... (to write) for hours.

After he ... (to write) a letter, he went to deliver it. (past perfect)

Before she told him, she ... (to think) about it twice.

Before the light turned green, he ... (to leave - already).

I ... (to see) the movie, before it was released.

He ... (to learn) the grammar, before the vocabulary.

Recap lesson aims

After this lesson you:

• Understand the past perfect;
• Understand the present perfect continuous.

Homework

Do the self-test;

Study for the test (vocab, grammar and phrases)