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Name: Student´s number:

Course Title: English Level III Teacher’s Name:

Module: 1. Lifestyles. Activity: 4. Present perfect vs present

perfect continuous

Date: Team:

1. Read the following e-mail and fill in the blanks with for or since.

Hello Henry!
How are you? Have you finished classes yet? Well, I haven’t. Classes will be
over in a month so I’ve been working on my final projects __for____ the last
few days! I’m exhausted! I wanted to use the weekend to watch that show you
told me about but I’ve been so busy that I haven’t watched anything on TV
__since___ the last time we met, and that was like three weeks ago! L I can’t
blame my teachers, though. They told me about two projects __since___ the
beginning of the month, but well, you know me. I’ve been leaving things
__for___ the last minute __since___ we were in high school. I hope I learn to
organize myself better next term.
Well, I guess I’ll go and continue working. I’ve been procrastinating __for___
the last 2 hours, and if I continue like this, I won’t finish.
Hope to see you soon!
Anne 

2. Read the email again, and organize the verbs in bold in the following table.

Present perfect Present perfect continuous

 Have you finished  I´ve been working

 I haven´t I watched  I´ve been living

 I have been  I´ve been procrastinating

 
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3. Read the following sentences and complete them with the present
perfect or present perfect continuous form of the verbs in parentheses
and with for or since.

1. I´ve ____been___ (be) on vacations __since_____ Monday.

2. I ´ve___playing___ (play) soccer and ___watching___ (watch)
movies all day.
3. I ´ve___been_working__ (work) at the cinema __for___ 10 days, and
I love it!
4. I ´ve__been__already __seen__ (see) the new superheroes movie
three times __since__ I started working here.
5. Have you seen Mark? I _haven´t__talking__ (not/talk) to him in a
while.