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This document provides a grammar practice exercise involving completing dialogues between a writer and reporter using the Present Perfect Continuous tense and necessary prepositions. The dialogues discuss what the writer has been doing in Africa over various periods of time, including writing books, living there, taking photos, traveling around Kenya, and considering changing jobs.
This document provides a grammar practice exercise involving completing dialogues between a writer and reporter using the Present Perfect Continuous tense and necessary prepositions. The dialogues discuss what the writer has been doing in Africa over various periods of time, including writing books, living there, taking photos, traveling around Kenya, and considering changing jobs.
This document provides a grammar practice exercise involving completing dialogues between a writer and reporter using the Present Perfect Continuous tense and necessary prepositions. The dialogues discuss what the writer has been doing in Africa over various periods of time, including writing books, living there, taking photos, traveling around Kenya, and considering changing jobs.
1. FORM: Complete the dialogues between a writer and a reporter
using the Present Perfect Continuous and the necessary a I, YOU,WE, THEY HAVE BEEN + V-ING prepositions: as in We have been talking… R: How long have you been writing ( b HE, SHE, IT HAS BEEN V-ING you- write) books?1 as in It has been snowing … W: I have been writing2 them for 3 five years... . AFFIRMATIVE, NEGATIVE, INTERROGATIVE: ___________ R: How long have you been living in We have been waiting for her for two hours. Africa?4 You haven’t been doing anything lately! W: I have been living 5 (live) in Africa Have you been working out? You’re so fit! 6 since 1998. How long have we been waiting for her? R: How long has your guide been What has she been doing? working7 (your guide –work) with you? W: He is been working 8 (work) with me for 2. USAGE: 9 two years. a This verb tense stresses the duration of the action. Prepositions since and for can be R: What else have you been doing used. (you-do) in Africa?10 W: I have been She has been playing in the garden for hours. taking (take)11 photos for my guidebook. R: How long have you been (she’s still there) travelling (travel)12 around Kenya? b It’s also used to describe a long action that W: I have been travelling13 (I - began in the past and has just stopped. The travel) since 14 6 a.m. result of the action is clear or implied. R: Have you been walking15 (you-walk) It has been raining. The ground is still wet. around Kenya!? W: I have been driving (drive)16 and c. We can also use it to talk about something walking (walk)17 that has been in progress recently or lately. R: Have you been riding (you - ride)18 elephants too? You look wonderful! Have you been working out W: No, I have not 19. But I have been lately? sending (send)20 photos of elephants and many other animals to some magazines. Have you been smoking recently? I can smell I’ve sold most of my photos. I have been cigarette smoke here! talking (think)21 of becoming a full time photographer. You haven’t been taking things seriously lately. R: I have been considering 22 (I- consider) changing my job for 23 two years!