The document provides instruction on using the present perfect continuous tense in English, including its form, use, and examples. It directs students to identify examples of the tense in a text, complete a table of tense forms, write sentences describing pictures using the tense, and write additional sentences employing the present perfect continuous.

1. English Language - First grade 52
English in Mind, Student’s book 2
Unit 10 - Music makers – Grammar
Present perfect continuous tense – page 75, Exercise 2
FORM: have/has been + present participle ( -ing form )
Examples:
I’ve been helping him with his homework for hours. or I have been helping…
He’s been working there for many years. or He has been working …
Exercise 2b: Try to find all the examples of the present perfect continuous in the text on page 74 and
underline them. Now complete the table (forms of the present perfect continuous).
USE: The present perfect continuous connects the past and the present. It is used for:
- for activities which started in the past and are still going on
- for actions that have just stopped and have an evident result in the present
- to show how long an activity has been in progress ( all morning, for hours, for many years, since
1994,… ).
And now complete the RULE in this exercise.
Exercise 3c: Look carefully at the pictures. Write one sentence in the present perfect continuous for each
picture.
Exercise 3d: Write complete sentences using the present perfect continuous tense.