I.Read and translate the following sentences. 1.I’ve been living next door to Alison for five years but I’ve never spoken to her

1.I’ve been living next door to Alison for five years but I’ve never spoken to her. 2.Marie has been going out with Steve for a year now, and they are planning to get married. 3.This fund has been helping people for generations. 4.The inspector has been keeping a watch on the house for the last few days. 5.For over three centuries farmers in the Philippines have been growing the finest tobacco leaf in the world. 6.We were tired as we had been working for more than eight hours. 7.Mr. Robbins liked his job. He had been working at the company for fifteen years. 8.The secretary closed the file which she had just been looking through. 9.At last he got the opportunity he had been waiting for so long. 10.Dora was translating an article. She had been translating it since she got to the office from the library.

II.Open the brackets using the verb in Present Perfect Progressive or in Past Perfect Progressive.

1.What are you doing? – I’m looking through the latest catalogues. I (to do) it for two hours. 2.She (to look) through the catalogues for more than two hours already when he came to the office. 3.Hurry up, John. I’m waiting for you. You (to speak) on the phone for nearly an hour. 4.When I came into the room, James was speaking on the phone. He (to speak) on the phone since he finished to discuss the terms of the new contract. 5.Who is that man standing on the corner? He (to stand) there for the last half an hour. 6.He (to stand) there for half an hour when I noticed him. 7.I (to stay) at the hotel for a fortnight when I received your letter. 8.We (to discuss) terms of the contract when they agreed to grant us a discount. 9.Jim works as a sales manager. He (to sell) washing machines for three months. 10.Oh,Mr. Cash, I (to try) to get you all day!

III.Open the brackets using the verb in Present Perfect Progressive or in Present Perfect.

1. He knows Africa well because he (to travel) a lot there. 2. You (to write) this report for two hours and can’t complete it. 3. John is still discussing the price problem with the customers. He must be tired. He (to discuss) it the whole morning. 4. Alice promised to come, but she’s absent. Something (to happen) to her. 5. The engineers are looking through the catalogues. They (to look through) them since they came from the exhibition. 6. They (to tell) anything about their new project? 7. My uncle always (to have) the big house in the country.

IV.Open the brackets using the verb in Past Perfect Progressive or in Past Perfect.

1. He quickly forgot everything he (to learn) at school. 2. I (to stay) at the hotel for a fortnight when I met this man. 3. The musician (to play) the piano for a whole hour when we came in. 4. Alice closed the magazine and rose from the sofa on which she (to lie) for more than two hours. 5. A man (to be) unconscious for a few minutes when an ambulance arrived. 6. We (to walk) along a forest road for two hours when we saw a house. 7. I (to talk) over the phone for a whole hour whwn the porter knocked at the door. 8. I hardly (to finish) speaking with a porter when the phone rang again. 9. And I began writing to her instead of going to the seaside, as I (to plan) before.

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