1. Поставьте в
предложения for или since.
1. Bob has been playing hockey … he was a small boy.
2. She’s been driving that car … five years.
3. We have been planning our vacation … last month.
4. He has been talking on the phone … 8 o’clock.
5. You have been telling the same anecdotes … many years.
6. I have been feeling ill … a couple of days.
2. Выбери правильную форму глагола:
1. How long in Paris?
a) has she been livingb) does she livec) did she live
2. Tom as a postman for a month.
a) workedb) has been workingc) have been working
3. He is tired because he around London all day.
a) has travelledb) have been travellingc) has been travelling
4. How long for me? For half an hour!
a) you have been waitingb) have you been waitingc) do you wait
5. I football since I was 6 years old.
a) have been playingb) have playingc) playing
6. You look tired. What ?
a) you have been doing b) have you doingc) have you been doing
7. How long in the street?
a) has it been rainingb) have it been rainingc) has it raining
8. He in the kitchen.
a) have been cookingb) have cookingc) has been cooking
9. They TV since morning.
a) have been watchingb) has been watchingc) have watching
10. My sister for 2 hours.
a) have been cryingb) has been cryingc) has crying
3. Используйте Present Perfect Continuous.
1. He (play) the piano since 6 o’clock in the morning.
2. It (not rain) all day.
3. Your eyes are red. You (cry)?
4. Farther (read) the newspaper since early morning.
5. His sister (not study) French for 6 years.
6. We (write) our article for a week.
7. She (learn) a poem for an hour?
8. I (not ride) a bicycle for 2 hours.
9. You (wait) for me for a long time?
10. How long you (learn) English?
Christmas in Britain is wonderful, much 1) BETTER than Christmas in America.
In America, Thanksgiving is probably the best holiday. It is great because you don’t have to give gifts or send cards or do anything but eat.
The trouble is that it comes 2) LESS than a month before Christmas. So when on 25 December Mom brings out another turkey, you don’t say, “Turkey! YIPPEEE!” but, “Ah, it 3) IS turkey again, isn’t it, Mother?”
Most Americans think that Thanksgiving 4) HAS BEEN HELD on the last Thursday of November since ancient times. They think that it 5) HAS BEEN GOING on ever since.
Thanksgiving 6) IS THOUGHT to be wonderful for all kinds of reasons.
While in Britain the Christmas shopping season seems 7) TO START after the August bank holiday, Christmas mania doesn’t traditionally begin in America until the last weekends in November.
Moreover, Thanksgiving is a holiday without 8) SENDING greetings cards or decorations. On Thanksgiving you sit at a table and then go and watch a game of American football on TV.
But there is one thing I miss about England. It’s Boxing Day. In America there is no Boxing Day. On 26 December everybody goes to work.
If there 9) WERE one thing I could take from England, it would be Boxing Day.
Did the Managing Director tell us about the change of his plans?
2) My boss didn’t phone me yesterday
Did my boss phone me yesterday?
3) We were not on a business trip last month.
Did we be on a business trip last month?
4) They haven’t just discussed the terms of the contract.
Have they just discussed the terms of the contract?
5) The secretary hasn’t sent the documents by air mail.
Has the secretary sent the documents by air mail?
6) In June we won’t produce two new models.
Will we produce two new models in June?
7) They won’t accept our offer.
Will they accept our offer?
8) The hotel wasn’t very expensive.
Was the hotel very expensive?
9) They didn’t have a meeting the day before yesterday.
Did the have a meeting the day before yesterday?
10) The plan for Moscow didn’t leave on time.
Did the plan for Moscow leave on time?