TEACHER’S NOTES

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S What have you been doing recently?

Activity Type Introduction

Reading, writing, In this present perfect continuous activity, students conduct a
listening and speaking survey on recent activities and actions to practice the tense. This
activity activity also helps to teach students about time expressions used
with the present perfect continuous.

Focus Procedure
Present perfect
Give each student a copy of the worksheet.
continuous question and
answer forms
Tell the students that they are going to conduct a survey on recent
activities and actions to practice the present perfect continuous.
Aim
Go through the language on the worksheet and elicit the first
To conduct a survey present perfect continuous question as an example, i.e. 'Have
on recent activities you been working hard recently?'
and actions to practice
the present perfect Divide the students into pairs and have them prepare the rest of
continuous. the questions. Then check the questions with the class.

Next, demonstrate the activity by writing the first item on the

Preparation board. Add a 'Name' and 'More information' column beside it.
Make one copy of the
Ask a student: Have you been working hard recently?
worksheet for each
student.
If they answer 'No, I haven’t', repeat the question with other
students until one of them says 'Yes, I have'.
Level
Write this student's name in the appropriate column on the board
Intermediate (B1) and ask them a follow up question, e.g. 'What have you been
working on?' Put their answer in the 'More information' column,
e.g. a school project.
Time
30 minutes Once the students understand the idea, they move around the
classroom asking and answering the questions and completing
their worksheets.

Tell the students that when they have found a name for an item
and asked a follow-up question or two, they should move on to
another student. This is to encourage them to speak to as many
different partners as possible.

When everyone has finished, go through each item on the

worksheet. Ask the students to give feedback to the rest of the
class on what they found out about their classmates. Ask them
to share any interesting answers and encourage the students to
discuss them in more detail.

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WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S What have you been doing recently?

Have you been... Name More information

(work) hard lately?

(look) forward to something recently?

(learn) something new over the last few weeks?

(plan) to go on holiday over the last few days?

(do) a lot of exercise lately?

(look) for a new apartment/house recently?

(travel) a lot over the last few weeks?

(go) to bed early recently?

(try) to cut down on something over the last

few weeks?

(play) a lot of computer games lately?

(worry) about something recently?

(do) a lot of shopping over the last few days?

(speak) English a lot in the last few weeks?

(write) a lot of emails recently?

(save) up to buy something over the last few

weeks?

(watch) a TV series since it started?

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