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PowerPoint – Present Perfect Simple/Continuous

Present Perfect Simple/Continuous Worksheet

Study! We use the Present Perfect


Simple for events and actions
that happened at an indefinite
A. Look at these sentences and identify the verb tenses. time in the past.
• Have you written a report focusing on the issues of Ecotourism? We use the Present Perfect
• They have been promoting nature conservation for years. Continuous to refer to events
that started in the past but go
on in the present.
1. Now complete the rules with the missing information.
Present Perfect Simple Present Perfect Continuous

• To make this tense we use the tense of the • To make this tense we use the Present Perfect of the verb
verb the of the main verb. + the form of the main verb.

Time expressions that are commonly used with the present perfect continuous include ‘since’, ‘for’, ‘all
week’, ‘for days’, ‘lately’, ‘recently’, ‘over the last few months’.

Practise!
B. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense – Present Perfect Simple or Continuous.
Sometimes both may be possible.
a. They have made (make) plans to manufacture tourist infrastructure in this town.
b. The town councilhas decided (decide) that the city is in desperate need of an economic boost.
has been providing
c. Ecotourism (provide) employment opportunities for local communities since the last decade.
has been becoming
d. The environment (become) one of the most important criteria for today’s traveler.
have been degrading
e. Many of the forests (degrade) in recent years due to climate change.
have been traing
f. We (train) people in how to manage forests for some time now.
have been waiting
g. I (wait) for the Greenpeace activist for 30 minutes and he still hasn't arrived (not/arrive).

C. Complete this Did you Know That …? section about environmental threats with the correct Present
Perfect tenses – Simple or Continuous of the verbs in brackets.

DID YOU KNOW THAT…


has been growing
• Antarctic sea ice (1) (not/grow) in recent decades?
has been cooling
• the sun (2) (cool) recently?
• the ocean (3)has absorbed(absorb) massive amounts of CO2?
hasn't been warming
• the sun (4) (not/warm) since 1970?
have been using
• ‘Global warming’ and ‘climate change’ mean different things and (5) (use) for decades?
• Most experts agree that humans (6) have caused (cause) global warming?
has increased
• Sea level rise (7) (increase) faster than predicted due to unexpectedly rapid ice melting?

Go online and practise the Present Perfect tenses @ http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs12.htm and http://www.englishpage.com/
verbpage/presentperfect.html

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