Exercise 3. Supply the Present Perfect Continuous Tense of the verbs in brackets.

1. She _______ with us since then. (live)

2. How long the children _______ (play)?

3. He is tired. He _______ all day. (dig)

4. She _______ at this school for twenty years. (teach)

5. He _______ experiments for a year. (make)

6. What _______ you with yourself lately (do)?

7. I think she _______ lies as usual. (tell)

8. I _______ myself that question for many years. (ask)

9. You _______ me since the very moment I left the house. (follow)

10. We _______ our librarian to put the books in the right order for three days. (help)

11. He says he _______ for a long time without achieving good results. (work)

Exercise 4. Complete the following sentences using the Present Perfect Progressive Tense.

Example: His clothes are dirty. (He/to work/in the garden)

He has been working in the garden.

1. He is very tired. (He/to play/football)

2. The boy's eyes are red and watery. (He/to cry)

3. He is looking at his watch. (He/to wait/for a long time)

4. She doesn't remember the teacher's words. (She/to day-dream)

5. They know this place very well. (They/to travel around/a lot)

6. Their eyes ache. (They/to watch TV/since morning)

7. Ann speaks French very well. (She/to learn French/since she was six)

8. He's got a cough. (He/to smoke/since he was a teenager)

9. His fingers are stained with ink. (He/to write/a lot)

10. The boy has to go to the dentist. (He/to eat/too many sweets lately)

11. They look exhausted. (They/to work overtime/lately)

Exercise 5. You have to say how long something has been happening.

Example: It is snowing. It began snowing two hours ago.

It has been snowing for two hours.

1. Jane is reading. She began reading an hour ago. She ____ for an hour.

2. My sister is knitting a new sweater. She started knitting it a month ago. She _____ for a month.

3. Sam is studying German. He started studying it two years ago. He ____ for two years.

4. My friend is working at his report. He began working at it in the morning. He_____ since morning.

5. They are building a new tube station. They started it in June. They _____ since June.

6. You are taking music lessons. You began taking music lessons six months ago. You _______ for six months.

7. Mary is looking for a job. She began looking for it in December. She _____ since December.

8. George smokes much. He started smoking ten years ago. He _______ for ten years.

Exercise 6. Make up sentences of your own beginning them with No wonder ..

Example: Mary looks tired. No wonder, she has been working very hard lately.

1. He is quite an expert in growing roses. (grow them for many years)

2. They hardly speak to each other. (quarrel a lot lately)

3. She looks bored to death. (listen to Mr. Вlack for half an hour)

4. She is a very good dressmaker. (make dresses for ten years)

5. The roads are practically impassable. (snow for a few days)

6. I can hardly stand on my legs. (dance the whole night through)

7. He is the author of more than ten novels, many stories and essays. (write books all his life)

8. Her eyes are red and swollen again. (cry the whole night through)

9. She is a very efficient secretary. (do this job for seven years)

10. The streets are slippery. (freeze for the last two hours)