A complete Grade 7 ESL grammar lesson pack on the present perfect continuous: forming have/has been + -ing, talking about ongoing actions with for, since and How long...?, explaining present results of recent activities, avoiding state verbs in the continuous, and choosing between the present perfect simple and continuous. Includes slides, a timed lesson plan, flashcards, worksheet, quiz, homework, rubric and answer key.
Students learn to talk about activities that began in the past and continue up to now, such as "I have been learning English for three years." They practice the form (have/has + been + -ing), use for with periods of time and since with starting points, and ask How long...? questions. They also learn the second use of the tense: explaining a present result of a recent activity, as in "Your hands are dirty. Have you been gardening?" Students compare the continuous form, which focuses on the activity and its duration, with the present perfect simple, which focuses on results and numbers, and they learn that state verbs such as know and own are not usually used in the continuous.
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Support: give a form table (I/you/we/they have been, he/she/it has been) and a for/since chart. Challenge: write a short paragraph comparing how long and how many, using both the simple and continuous forms correctly.
Worksheet activities 1 to 5 and the quiz check form, for and since, present results and the simple-continuous contrast (answer key included). Activity 6 and the homework interview are assessed with the rubric.
Draw a timeline for every new example: a line from a point in the past to now, with a wavy line to show the ongoing activity. Students who see the timeline make far fewer mistakes with for and since.
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