June 3rd, 2020 : worksheet #2 (1)

Warm up : an easy exercise with for or since.

Then, after the exercise, a grammar question.

1. Mrs Brown has been in hospital three weeks.

2. We have known the Robinsons years.

3. We have had this car last April.

4. I haven't seen her ages*. (*= a very,very long time)

5. I have hated spiders I was a kid.

6. She has been waiting for you half an hour.

7. It's been raining lunch-time.

8. They have been playing chess hours.

9. They've been living in Canada the 80s.

10. Emma has been working in the garden 2:00.

Score =

Compare the red sentences (1 to 5) and the purple sentences (6 to 10).

Why are the verbs in different tenses ?
What is the tense of the purple verbs ?