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Watch the video on our website and read the conversation between Sophie and Yasmina. Then do these exercises to
check your understanding of the present perfect simple and continuous.
6. They've been playing for forty minutes but no one has scored (score) a goal
yet.
7. We have known (know) each other for years.
9. Hey, you look different. Have you changed (change) your hair?
11. Your hands are really dirty! What have you been doing (do)?
12. Who has eaten (eat) all the cake?! There's none left.
3 Sophie wanted to visit the Burj Al Arab hotel. She went there two days ago.
.
a. Sophie hasn't been b. Sophie has already c. Sophie has just been
to the Burj Al Arab been to the Burj Al Arab to the Burj Al Arab hotel.
hotel yet. hotel.
4 I don't know what octopus tastes like!
.
a. I haven't been trying b. I've already tried octopus. c. I've never tried octopus.
octopus.
6 He's learning how to make Japanese food. He started his course in April.
.
a. He's been b. He's already c. He learnt how to cook
learning how to learnt how to cook Japanese food in April.
cook Japanese food Japanese food.
since April.
7 The first thing she did was go to a traditional restaurant.
.
a. She's already tried b. She's never tried c. She hasn't tried the local
the local food. the local food. food yet.
8 We didn't have English class this morning. It's the last lesson, later today.
.
a. We haven't had b. We haven't had c. We've just had English.
English already. English yet.
Discussion
Today I have been working on a new marketing project for the company, then I have been doing one of the
virtual automation courses that I have this week, in the afternoon I have been making progress in my bicep and
back exercise routines in the gym and then when I got home I have been doing the diet that I set out to cook
something fit and then I have been studying the new topic to see in English class.