This engaging printable ESL / EFL worksheet helps students practise the Present Perfect Continuous by looking at the visible results of recent or ongoing activities and explaining what people have been doing. Students study each illustrated situation, read the clue sentence, and write a suitable Present Perfect Continuous sentence, using the word bank for support or choosing another logical action.

Page 2 has the KEY.

The printable is complemented by a gapfill interactive quiz: students type their answers into the boxes.

Language goal: Describing recent or ongoing activities and explaining present results

Grammar: Present Perfect Continuous – have/has been + verb-ing

Theme: Everyday activities, winter, hobbies and daily life – snow, shopping, exercise, music, gardening, washing the car, studying, baking, running, painting, football, texting, fishing and hiking

Intended age group: 10–16 years

Recommended CEFR level: B1 (Intermediate)

The strong visual clues make the worksheet especially useful for helping learners connect the evidence they can see now with an activity that has been happening over a period of time.

Thank you, Silvia Lefevre, for the inspiration!

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Let's do English ESL guided grammar production. This engaging printable ESL / EFL worksheet helps students practise the Present Perfect Continuous by looking at…