Grade: III, GENERAL

Lesson 106. Present Perfect Continuous

Type: Presentation

Introductory: Revision of the tense usage

1. Test your grammar/96
Ss match the two parts of sentences and explain
their choice
2. Pre-reading activity: Answering the questions
If they can't tell the answer, I answer the question(s)
3. Reading activity: 2/97 (T68)
4. After- reading activity: answering qs
Main part: Presenting a new grammatical structure
5. What 'new' construction have you noticed in this text? What does it look like?
I write the title and the formation pattern on the board:
The Present Perfect Continuous Tense
BE ( perfect infinitive)+ V (present participle)
I ask them to read the sentences in this tense from the text and I copy 1 on the
board as an example

What is it used for?

1. The present perfect continuous tense is often used (with for or

since) to describe how long something has been happening up to now.

Present Perfect Continuous Timeline

For example:-

Q) How long have you been studying English?" 

A) I've been studying English for four years." 
Note - You can just say "For four years." 
Q) How long have you been living in Germany?
A) I've been living here since 1998.
Note - You can just say "Since 1998".

2. The present perfect continuous is also used to refer to an event that

may or may not be finished when it's effect can be seen now.

For example:
Look! It's been snowing. 
Note - It's not necessarily snowing now but you can see the effect (the snow
on the ground).
 3. You should also use the present perfect continuous when talking
about how long you have been doing your current job or working on
unfinished projects:

For example:
I have been working at BT for three years. 
We have been exporting to China since 1999.

!Note It is always for a length of time and since a point in time.

6. Forming questios/ negatives: I give the pattern on the basis of the sentence on
the board.
He has been learning to drive for the past 17 years…
Q: HAVE Subject BEEN+ PRESENT PARTICIPLE…
Has he been learning to drve for the past 17 years?
For the feedback, I ask them to do 3/97. Check: T69
N: HAVE/HAS NOT (HAVEN'T/HASN'T) BEEN+ present participle
He has not (hasn't) been learning to drive for ...
Practice: Practice(1,2)/97

Revision: Practice (3,4)/97

MAJ
106. The Present perfect continuous ON
107. Here endeth the lesson PV
108. Time expressions ON

109. Revising Perfect Tenses PO

110. Death cigarettes? You must be joking! ON
111. Comprehension check PV
112. Compound nouns PV
113. Collectors PV
114. Beginning and ending the letter UT
115. Complaining UT
 MAJ
134. Give your talk to the class. Answer any qs UT
135. Stop and check TEST
136. Modal auxiliary verbs in the past, probability ON
137. Modal auxiliary verbs in the past, deduction ON
138. Making assumptions PV
139. Expressions with modals, revision PO
140. The murder game PV
141. How the west was born ON
142. Comprehension check UT
143. Synomyms- The Story of Jim and the Lion ON
144. Metaphores and idioms- the body PV
145. Body idioms- revision KO
146. Formal and informal letters and e-mails PV
Grade: III, LINGUISTIC
Lesson 134. Give your talk to the class. Answer any questions
Type: Revision

Introduction:
Grade: II, linguistic
Lesson 80. Requests and offers
Type: Written Practice
Grade III, general
Lesson 105. So do I / Neither do I
Type: presentation

Introduction: 1. Homework check. A few of them read their composition.

2. I introduce the topic by stating, for eg. I think the wedding was
amazing!, eliciting their reaction, expecting sth like 'me too'/'not me'
3.SB, 1,2/95. We read the instructions as a class, theydo the exercises
individually, but they check the second exercise in pairs
Presentation:

4. I play T67 again and ask them to do 3/95. They do it in pairs. Check: 1 S
says the things where Polly agrees, and 1 the things where she disagrees.
Practice: 5. SB, 4/95