Perfect ContinuousTenses

Past, Present and Future Perfect Continuous

Warm-up activity

Past Perfect Continuous

to show that something started in the past and continued up until another time in the past.

Use:

Example: He had been drinking milk out the carton when Mom walked into the kitchen.

Past Perfect Continuous

Structure:

Practice

• Wordwall
• True/false

Present Perfect Continuous

to show that something started in the past and has continued up until now

Use:

Example: They have been talking for the last hour.

Present Perfect Continuous

Structure:

Practice

• Learning Apps
• Listening

Practice

Answers

1. She has been living there for two years.2. How have you been doing? 3. It has been raining all day. 4. They haven’t been paying attention. (negative) 5. What has he been reading? 6. We have been eating a lot of healthy food lately.

Future Perfect Continuous

to show that something will continue up until a particular event or time in the future.

Use:

Example: I will have been waiting here for three hours by six o'clock.

Future Perfect Continuous

Structure:

Future Perfect Continuous

Important!!

• The future perfect continuous focuses more on the duration of the action itself.

• The future perfect progressive tense is typically used with two time expressions: one specifying a time in the future and one stating the length of the activity.

Example: By six o'clock, John will have been baking a cake for an hour. ("By six o'clock" specifies a time in the future. "For an hour" tells us the length of the activity.)

Practice

• Learning Apps
• put the correct form of the verb using the future perfect continuous tense.

Practice

• Will have been waiting
• will has been living
• will have been studying
• will have been singing
• Will he have been sleeping
• Will this plant have been growing

Practice

• YouTube
• Song "since you've been gone"

Practice

Answers

1. Been gone2. been foolin'3. turned4. been5. ever had 6. ve

Practice

• Learning Apps
• Select the group

Practice

• Padlet
• Our Dictionary of Emotions

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Works cited

Ginger. (2021). The Past Perfect Progressive Tense. https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/verbs/the-past-perfect-progressive-tense/ Grammar Monster. (n.d). What Is the Present Perfect Progressive Tense? (with Examples). https://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/present_perfect_progressive_tense.htm Grammar Monster. (n.d). What Is the Future Perfect Progressive Tense? (with Examples). https://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/future_perfect_progressive_tense.htm