The document discusses the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous tenses in English. It provides examples of how to use each tense to talk about past experiences and actions that have relevance or continuation to the present. It then provides a series of prompts assessing understanding of using adjectives to describe how someone might feel based on what they have been doing, such as being angry from fighting or tired from running a marathon.

1. What have they been doing?
(Present Perfect Simple / Continuous)
How do they feel?
(Normal and Strong adjectives)

2. Uses of the Present Perfect
Present Perfect Simple
• For past experiences, when we
don’t say exactly when they
happened.
I have been to Chicago, but I haven’t
been to Boston.
• For recent past actions (often
with “just”).
I’ve just passed my driving test.
• With “yet” and “already”.
I’ve already bought a car.
• Present Perfect + for /since with
non-action verbs to talk about
something which started in the
past and is still true now.
I have been a teacher for thirteen years.
Present Perfect Continuous
• Present Perfect Continuous + for
/since with action verbs to talk
about something which started in
the past and is still true now.
I have been teaching at this school for
three years.
• For continuous or repeated
actions which have been
happening very recently. The
actions have usually just finished.
I’ve been walking on the beach every day
till last week.

3. What’s wrong with them?
1. She / fight / sister.
She is ________.
2. She / be / hairdresser’s.
She is ________.

4. What’s wrong with them?
She’s been fighting with her sister.
She’s been to the hairdresser’s.
She is angry.
She is furious.

5. What’s the matter with them?
3. He / run / rain.
He must be _____.
4. He / work / snow.
He must be _____.

6. What’s the matter with them?
He’s been running under the rain. He’s been working under the snow.
He must be cold.
He must be freezing.

7. What’s wrong with them?
5. He / see / ghost.
He feels _____.
6. He / watch / scary movie.
He feels ______.

8. What’s the matter with them?
He has seen a ghost.
He feels scared.
He’s watched a scary movie.
He feels terrified.

9. What’s the matter with them?
7. He / run / marathon.
He feels ______.
8. He / be awake / all night.
He feels ________.

10. What’s the matter with them?
He’s been running a marathon.
He feels tired.
He has been awake all night.
He feels exhausted.

11. What’s wrong with them?
9. She / eat / ice-cream.
She is ______.
10. He / work / coal mine.
He is ________.

12. What’s wrong with them?
She’s been eaten an ice-cream. He’s been working in a coal mine.
She is dirty.
He is filthy.

13. What’s the matter with them?
11. She / take photos / desert. 12. He / clean / all morning.
She’s probably ______ .
He’s probably _______.

14. What’s the matter with them?
She’s been taking photos in the
desert.
She’s probably hot.
He’s been cleaning all morning.
He’s probably boiling.

15. What’s the matter with them?
13. She / swim / Hawai.
She looks ______.
14.They / watch / football match.
They look _______.

16. What’s the matter with them?
She’s been swimming in Hawai.
She looks happy.
They’ve been watching a football
match.
They look delighted.

17. What’s the matter with them?
15. Someone / tell / joke.
She found it _______.
16.They / drink / too much.
They look _________.

18. What’s the matter with them?
Someone has told her a joke.
She found it funny.
They’ve been drinking too much.
They look hilarious.

19. Stop, stop! She’s gonna pee!