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FMU Component

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.

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