Using present perfect continuous with recent actions
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Using present perfect continuous with recent actions

B1IntermediateSeptember 24, 20267 min
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In today's episode, we practise how to use the present perfect continuous tense when speaking about recent actions. My new course, The Essentials of English, is available now! Visit https://learnenglishwithben.thinkific.com/ Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

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present perfect continuous tense. Let's start by reminding ourselves of the structure of the present

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Anglais. Hi guys, I'm Ben and welcome to today's English podcast. Today we're going to practice the present perfect continuous tense. Let's start by reminding ourselves of the structure of the present perfect continuous so we use has or have depending on whether we use I you he she it we or they remember we use have with I and you and we and they and we use has

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with he she and it then we say been and then we use our verb in the ing form so So here's an example sentence from Monday's episode of Parley on Glee. Listen carefully. I've been watching a lot of nature programs recently.

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I've been watching a lot of nature programs recently. OK, so that's the sentence and we've seen the structure. What does it mean? Well, if we think about that sentence, I've been watching a lot of nature programs recently,

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