VI. Complete the dialogue and act it out.

Sue. Eric! Call the waiter again!

Eric. I ... (try / have been trying) to call him.

Sue. Eric! We ... (sit / have been sitting) here for twenty minutes, I am not going to wait any longer!

Eric. I am sorry, dear, but he ... (is talking / has talked / has been talking) to that girl.

Sue. Yes, he ... (is talking / has talked / has been talking) to her since we came in.

Eric. Waiter!

Waiter. Yes, sir. Do you want the bill?

Eric. The bill! We ... (didn't see / haven't seen) the menu yet.

VII. Join the following pairs of sentences into one introducing the necessary changes.

Model. My brother began to do this exercise 20 minutes ago. He is still doing it. My brother has been doing this exercise for 20 minutes.

1. It began to snow 3 hours ago. It is still snowing.

2. They began to study English 5 years ago. They are still studying it.

3. They began to read for their exam in English literature 3 days ago. They are still doing it.

4. She began to cook meat 2 hours ago. She is still doing it.

5. Alan began to watch an interesting programme on TV an hour ago. He is still doing it.

VIII. Underline the correct tense form.

1. Carol had been working / was working for the company for twenty years before he retired.

2. It had been raining / was raining all day and the roads were very wet.

3. He had been waiting / was waiting for Jessica for two hours, so he was bored.

4. She had been working / was working hard that day, so she was tired.

5. They had been skating / were skating together for two years before they entered the competition.

IX. Transform the following sentences into special questions.

1. By the time she finished work, we shall have been waiting for her more than an hour.

2. Kate will have been staying here for three weeks by next Monday.

3. They will have been flying for three hours by the time the stewardess serves dinner.

4. By the end of the year the Warretts will have been living in their house for 10 years.

5. By the end of next month Alec will have been running his own business for eight years.

X. Fill in the gaps with one of the verbs from the list in the Present Perfect Continuous, Past or Future Perfect Continuous.

Try, work, scream, snow, argue, build.

1. He is tired. He ... hard.

2. Everything is white. It ... all night.

3. Не is confused. He ... to solve the problem all morning.

4. John had a headache. His baby sister ... for half an hour.

5. Emily was angry. She ... with her parents for an hour.

6. Ted hopes he ... his own house by the time he is thirty

XI. Use the appropriate form of the verb in parenthesis.

1. They ... (to study) hard all morning, so they were tired.

2. By the time Kim finishes the race, he ... (to run) for two hours.

3. We ... (to live) in the house for a year before we decorated the kitchen.

4. For more than a year he ... (to try) to get permission to extend his house rent.

5. The children are wet to the skin. - No wonder. They ... (to walk) in the rain all morning.

XII. Translate the following sentences using Perfect Continuous Tenses.

1. Вона виглядає стомленою. Гадаю, вона знову читала цілу ніч.

2. Ольга складає екзамени з історії уже годину.

3. Наступного місяця буде 30 років з того часу, як він працює в нашому університеті.

4. Він не дуже добре почувається останнім часом.

5. Вибачте за безладдя, я фарбувала кімнату ці три дні.

6. Він вивчав цю справу довго, перш ніж подав свої пропозиції.

7. Зайшовши в кімнату, вона почула запах сигарет. Хтось курив там до цього.

8. Телефон дзвонив вже декілька хвилин коли нарешті він взяв слухавку.