TEACHER’S FILE Top Teen 10

GRAMMAR WORKSHEETS

GRAMMAR WORKSHEET 8 Module 1 – Window on the world

PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE OR

PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS?
A. Write the numbers of the following sentences in the correct box.

1. That boy usedContinuing

to be my cyberfriend,
situation but now I have lost contact with him.
Something completed

2. I have been having fun with people I know on epals for a long time.
3. I have just subscribed to a friendship website.
4. They have been participating in chatrooms since they subscribed to the website.
5. My epal, Monika, has been living in Italy lately.
6. I haven’t heard much from my friend Jennifer for a long time.

B. Choose one of the verbs in the box. Fill in the blanks with the correct tense (Present Perfect Simple
or Present Perfect Continuous).

• invite • write • work • have • tell • exchange • ask • carry out • start

1. My sister ____________________________________ an email exchange with a student from France.

2. They ____________________________________ emails since last summer.
3. She ____________________________________ her friend to come to Portugal in the summer.
4. Nevertheless, Jean (that’s her friend’s name) __________________________________ a lot lately
and he doesn’t know if he will be able to come.
5. I _________________ also ________________________________ an account at Cyberfriends.com.
My mother ______________________________ me that I spend too much time online and that’s true!
6. At last my students are interested in something! They _______________________________________
questions about how a friendship website works and they seem to be enthusiastic about the idea of
having a classroom account.
7. Some schools __________________________________ projects of writing emails to epals in different
countries, in order to improve their language skills.
8. Even my mother _______________________________ to an epal. However, she hasn’t got a reply yet.

Jennifer has been waiting for the She has often waited at
plane to London for two hours. the airport for hours.
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