This document provides instruction on teaching the present perfect continuous tense form in English. It begins by defining the form, including its meaning of describing ongoing actions that began in the past and continue in the present. Three teaching activity scenarios are then described that involve students role-playing conversations using the tense to ask and answer questions about what each other's characters have been doing recently. Additional exercises are listed to reinforce learning and practice of the present perfect continuous form.
This document provides instruction on teaching the present perfect continuous tense form in English. It begins by defining the form, including its meaning of describing ongoing actions that began in the past and continue in the present. Three teaching activity scenarios are then described that involve students role-playing conversations using the tense to ask and answer questions about what each other's characters have been doing recently. Additional exercises are listed to reinforce learning and practice of the present perfect continuous form.
This document provides instruction on teaching the present perfect continuous tense form in English. It begins by defining the form, including its meaning of describing ongoing actions that began in the past and continue in the present. Three teaching activity scenarios are then described that involve students role-playing conversations using the tense to ask and answer questions about what each other's characters have been doing recently. Additional exercises are listed to reinforce learning and practice of the present perfect continuous form.
Topic: Present Perfect Continuous Unit # 3 Level: B1
Form: Positive: Subject + Auxiliary verb (have/has) + been + verb + ing. Negative: Subject + Auxiliary verb (have/has) + not (haven’t/hasn’t) + been + verb + ing. Question: Auxiliary verb (have/has) + subject + been + verb + ing + ? Wh question: Wh word + auxiliary verb (have/has) + subject + been + verb + ing + ? Meaning: We use present perfect continuous to talk about things that started in the past and continue in the present.
Usage (REAL LIFE CONTEXT): Teaching Activity (Steps to develop - Fluently
Use): 1. In a scenario where S1 is an athlete 1. T will send Ss to breakout rooms. S1 is and has a lot of symptoms because going to the doctor, and he/she will explain he/she is sick. He/she goes to the his/her symptoms. S2 will ask him/her doctor. S2 is going to be Doctor what actions he/she has been doing during House, a professional doctor. S2 is the last days. S1 will answer using present going to ask S1 about his/her last perfect continuous. S2 will take notes, and actions during the week, like: What he will suggest him to do some activities, food have you been eating? Have and prescribe some medicine. Ss will you been taking pills? Where have change rolls after 2 min. you been feeling the pain? S1 is going to answer by telling him what he has been doing, and what symptoms he has had.
2. In a scenario where S1 and S2 were 2. T will send Ss to breakout rooms. S1 is
classmates at high school some professional actor/actress and S2 is a years ago but, they took different famous singer. Ss will meet at S1’s mansion ways and now S1 is a professional after 10 years, and S1 will ask S2 about actor/actress and S2 is a famous what things he has been doing during singer. S1 and S2 are going to meet his/her life. S2 will tell him/her about at S1’s mansion after many years. S1 his/her last projects, using present perfect is going to ask S2 how he/she has continuous. S1 will congratulate him/her. been during the last years, and what Ss will change rolls after 2 min. he has been doing. S2 is going to answer him/her what new projects he/she has been working on.
3. In a scenario where S1 is the 3. S2 has won a trip to the Bahamas in yacht.
mother/father of S2. S2 won a free S1 is his/her mother/father. S1 will ask S2 trip to The Bahamas in a yacht for 2 what funny activities he/she has been months. S1 is going to call S2 to ask doing, and how he/she has been living. S2 him/her how his/her trip has been will answer these questions using present going. S2 will answer the funny perfect continuous. S1 will tell him/her activities he/she has been doing that he/she hopes to see him/her soon. there. After 2 min, Ss will change rolls. More Activities (Remember activities) -Ss will order some scramble sentences according to the correct form of present perfect continuous. -Ss will fill the blanks in some sentences, with the correct form of the verb have according to the subject. -Ss will write 4 sentences about the last things they have been doing during the week, and they will share them with a classmate. -T will show an image, and Ss will write 1 sentence using present perfect continuous according to that image.