Program 7: Ongoing Actions: Present Perfect Continuous with "For" and "Since"
Learn to ask "How long?" and accurately describe the duration of ongoing activities.
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About this course
Take your conversational skills further by mastering the Present Perfect Continuous tense (Have/Has + been + -ing verb). This program focuses on describing actions that started in the past and are still happening right now. You will learn how to ask "How long?" to inquire about ongoing activities, and master the crucial difference between the time prepositions "for" (used for a duration, like "for two hours") and "since" (used for a specific starting point, like "since 8 o'clock"). To build practical sentences, you will expand your vocabulary with everyday action verbs, relevant nouns, and a wide variety of time-based prepositional phrases.
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Module 1 8 hours
The Present Perfect Continuous with For-Since
• Ask others how long they have been doing an activity using "How long have you been...?"
• Accurately express the total duration of an ongoing action (e.g., "I have been waiting for two hours").
• Pinpoint the exact starting time of an ongoing action (e.g., "She has been working here since January").
• Understand when to use "for" (periods of time) versus "since" (points in time).
• Discuss ongoing hobbies, work projects, and relationships using descriptive noun and prepositional phrases (e.g., "They have been dating since last month").
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Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate (CEFR A2-B1) Level
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Program 7: Ongoing Actions: Present Perfect Continuous with "For" and "Since"
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