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เร่ือง Present perfect Continuous โดย พี่ชิ ชินัณ บุญเรืองรตัน์ พี่ม.มหิดลติวเตอร ์

Present perfect Continuous

STUCTURE PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

examples

• I have been speaking.

• You have been speaking.

• He has been speaking.

• A girl has been speaking.

TIME LINE

• Like present perfect but continually

– He have been working for three hours.

HOW TO USE

• CONTINUE TO THE FUTURE

– Tom has been living in Bangkok since 2008.

LOOK! Verb used in this tense :

LONGER >>>

Stay / live / work / sit / stand / sleep / read etc.

VERB CANNOT BE USED • LOVE

• UNDERSTAND

• HATE

• BELIEVE

• KNOW

PRACTICE Sand is studying. Sand began at 8:00 and now it is 10.00.

PRACTICE We are playing game. We started 3 hours ago, and we are not finished yet.

PRACTICE The dog is barking. It started 10 minutes ago.

PRACTICE My friends are using the computer now. They started 30 minutes ago.

QUESTION

NEGATIVE

Excercise He _____________ (work) in this company since 1999.

Excercise I ____________ (wait) for you since two o’clock

Excercise Mary ______________ (live) in Germany since 1999.

Excercise Why is he so tired? He __________ (play) tennis for five hours.

Excercise How long _____________ (study) English?

Excercise They ________ (look for) the motorway for more than an hour.

Excercise I _____________ (live) without electricity for 2 weeks.

Excercise The film ___________ (run / not) for ten minutes yet.

Excercise How long _____________ (work / she) in the garden?