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Present Perfect vs Continuous Exercises

The document provides examples to practice using the present perfect and present perfect continuous tenses. It contains 10 sentences with blanks to fill in using the appropriate tense form of the verbs provided in parentheses. It then directs the reader to solve exercises on online English tests about these tenses and paste screenshots of the results. Finally, it instructs writing a brief paragraph using both tenses to describe what one has been doing lately to improve their English level.

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Present Perfect vs Continuous Exercises

The document provides examples to practice using the present perfect and present perfect continuous tenses. It contains 10 sentences with blanks to fill in using the appropriate tense form of the verbs provided in parentheses. It then directs the reader to solve exercises on online English tests about these tenses and paste screenshots of the results. Finally, it instructs writing a brief paragraph using both tenses to describe what one has been doing lately to improve their English level.

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I Fill in the gaps using either present perfect or present perfect continuous.

1 Mat and Sarah (have) have been having some difficulties in their relationship lately, so they
_have gone (go) to a marriage counselor.

2 John has worked (work) for the government since he graduated from Harvard University,
but now he’s thinking about retiring.

3 Lately, I ‘ve been thinking (think) about changing my career because I have become
dissatisfied with the conditions at my company.

4 I ‘ve been learning (learn) English for three years, and I will continue until I travel to England.

5 She has been learning_ (learn) French words for hours, but she still doesn’t remember all of
them.

6 Has he studied (he / study) hard today?

7 He has been writing (write) his essay all day, but he hasn’t finished (not / finish) yet.

8 Lucy has run _ (run) 2000 meters today.

9 How many times have you taken (you / take) this exam?

10 Iona is exhausted these days. She has worked (work) too hard recently.

II Go the following pages, solve the exercises, take screenshot of your results,
paste them into this document.

[Link]
continuous/

[Link]
continuous/2/

[Link]
continuous/3/
III Write a brief paragraph (50 words) about what you have been doing lately
to improve your level of English. Try to use both tenses, present perfect and
present perfect continuous.
Last week I ‘ve been studying two hours per day for my English test until now I couldn’t.

Understand very well what my teacher says in the class, but I tried to understand some

Words by songs because my brother told me that is the best way to learn English, the next

Days probably I’ll study too much.

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