Worksheet 3
Grammar
Present Perfect Simple vs
Present Perfect Continuous
Match the halves of the sentences to form a coherent sentence.
a. The wildfires have gone out of control
b. We have been protesting
c. I’ve given up driving
d. The destruction of The Amazon forest
e. So, what have you done lately?
1. I haven’t seen you.
2. for two years now.
3. and have killed countless wildlife.
4. has caused climatic havoc.
5. against logging for ages.
Complete the blank spaces with the correct verb and verb tense.
a. I ten emails to companies in the hope of finding a job.
b. I in this neighbourhood for only two months, so I hardly know anybody.
c. Have you heard the latest? James his arm and now needs a cast.
d. Jill a shopaholic since she left university and started earning money.
e. The university students fossils and want to become future paleontologists.
f. Mary cakes since she was in high school and now she is a full-time pastry chef.
Complete the blank spaces with the correct verb tense.
Jill: I think the shop assistant (a) has forgotten (forget) us. We (b) have been waiting (wait) here for over
ten minutes and she (c) hasn’t turned up (not turn up) yet.
Fred: I don’t think so. She (d) has been peeping (peep) through the change room curtain continuously.
I (e) have seen (see) her blue hair cropping up over the curtain.
Jill: Look! There she is. She’s attending that couple over there who (f) have just arrived (just / arrive).
I (g) have never been (never / be) so insulted in my life. I (h) have been coming (come) to this store for
over a year now!
Fred: I (i) have just had (just / have) a crazy idea. Why don’t we swap our clothes with the clothes in the
store and walk out?
Jill: That’s the silliest idea I (j) have ever heard (ever / hear). I (k) have been buying buy) clothes in this store
since I was a teen. I (l) have never shoplifted (never / shoplift) before in my life!!
Fred: Just kidding, but you would surely get her attention!!
Name No. Class
Date/ / Teacher
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Revise:
Student’s Book, p. 18
Workbook, p. 7
Study Guide, pp. 15, 36
