Bài giảng Chuyên đề ngữ pháp tiếng Anh - Ôn tập: Perfect and perfect progressive tenses

 CHAPTER 3 
Perfect and Perfect Progressive Tenses
 Have you ever seen a dragon 
 parade?
 1 Use the present perfect to talk about situations that 
began in the past and continue up until now. 
These traditions have continued for 5,000 
years. 
Grown-ups have always given red envelopes 
of money to children.
 5,000 years
 ago Today
 3 Use the present perfect to talk about an event that 
has occurred repeatedly from a point in the past to 
the present time.
 Have you ever seen a dragon parade? 
 Yes, I have. I have seen many dragon 
 parades.
 1990 Today
 many dragon parades
 5 Use the present perfect progressive to talk about 
the duration of an activity that began in the past 
and continues to the present.
We have been celebrating the Chinese New 
Year for a week now. 
 My grandmother has been decorating the 
 house for the New Year since this morning.
 7 PRACTICE 2 – 
Part I - Identify the correct verb form(s).
 Present Perfect (P)?
 Present Perfect Progressive (PP)? 
 Or Both (B)?
 1. We (celebrate) Chinese New Year all week! ____PP
 2. I (see) two dragon parades so far this week. ____P
 3. My brother (eat) a lot of candy during New Year’s. ____B
 4. He (feel) ill all day today. ____B
 5. He (be) sick since this morning. ____P
 6. My mother (take care of) my brother today. She hasn’t left 
 his side. ____PP 9 11 The past perfect expresses an activity that was 
completed before another activity or time in the 
past.
 By the time we got to the park last night, the 
 fireworks had already finished. 
 Fireworks Fireworks We
 began. finished. arrived.
 13 Use the past perfect progressive to emphasize the 
duration of an activity that was in progress before 
another activity or time in the past. 
Steven had been watching the dragon parade 
for thirty minutes when he remembered he had 
a lunch date.
Steven’s friends had been waiting for him 
since twelve-thirty.
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