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PROGRESSIVE
PhD José de Jesús Pérez Martínez
ICE BREAKER
• Why do you want to learn english? When are you going to use it?
• What kind of oportunities will you have?
• What is your experience learning / using english?
• 1. A: Did you like the movie "Star Wars?" / B: I don't know. I (see, never) _________ that movie.
• 2. Adriana (play) ___________ tennis since she was eight years old.
• 3. My best friend and I (know) ______________ each other for over fifteen years. We still get
together once a week.
• 4. I (have, not) ______________ this much fun since I (be) _________ a kid.
• 5. Listen Donna, I don't care if you (miss) ________ the bus this morning. You (be) _________
late to work too many times. You are fired!
• 6. Jonny, I can't believe how much you (change) ________ since the last time I (see) ______ you.
You (grow) ________ at least a foot!
• 7. My cat (be) ____________ in the vet clinic three times this year.
• 8. Rupert (want) ___________ to be an actor for as long as I can remember.
• 9. My uncle (smoke) _________ 40 cigarettes a day for 40 years – and he's a doctor!
• 10. Since he finished university, my brother (work) ________ in five different countries.
• 1. A: Did you like the movie "Star Wars?" / B: I don't know. I have never seen that movie.
• 2. Adriana has played tennis since she was eight years old.
• 3. My best friend and I have known each other for over fifteen years. We still get
together once a week.
• 4. I have not had this much fun since I was a kid.
• 5. Listen Donna, I don't care if you missed the bus this morning. You have been late to
work too many times. You are fired!
• 6. Jonny, I can't believe how much you have changed since the last time I saw you. You
have grown at least a foot!
• 7. My cat has been in the vet clinic three times this year.
• 8. Rupert has wanted to be an actor for as long as I can remember.
• 9. My uncle has smoked 40 cigarettes a day for 40 years – and he's a doctor!
• 10. Since he finished university, my brother has worked in five different countries.
PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
• The present perfect progressive expresses an action that recently
stopped or is still going on. It puts emphasis on the duration or course
of the action.
• We use this tense to express a continuity sense of a past action until
today, or which stopped recently.
• Focus on the process and on the result of a long action
• El presente perfecto continuo, muchas veces tiene la equivalencia a
la traducción “llevar + gerundio” en español, pero el uso de esta
forma es más frecuente en inglés.
USES
• 1. We use the Present Perfect Progressive for actions in the past
which have a connection to the present and for actions beginning in
the past and still continuing. The focus is on the action.
• She has been waiting for you all day
• They have been travelling since last October
• I've been working on this report since eight o'clock this morning