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Competențe specifice:
1.4 Identificarea, în mesaje orale şi texte scrise diverse, a unor puncte de vedere şi
opinii exprimate, pentru a le compara cu punctul de vedere personal
2.1 Oferirea şi solicitarea, oral / în scris, de informaţii şi instrucţiuni clare şi precise pentru
îndeplinirea unei sarcini de lucru
3.1 Solicitarea adecvată, oral / în scris, a ideilor, opiniilor, părerilor interlocutorului şi
răspunsuri / comentarii adecvate la acestea
3.3 Susţinerea unui punct de vedere în cadrul unei discuţii orale/ al unui schimb de
mesaje scrise, pe teme de interes
Aims:
use Ss speaking abilities
identify the speech situations related to past perfect continuous
answer the questions on an information sheet
use the verbs in brackets to the right form to fill in the blanks
Lesson objectives: by the end of the lesson the students will be able to:
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Uses:
-expresses actions started in the past that were still in progress at the
moment another thing happened: My dog had been sleeping for 2 hours
when my mom came home.
-explains a reason for something in the past: He was exhausted because
he had been training hard all day.
-to emphasize the duration of something, perhaps to make apoint of the
time, work, stress, commitment, inconvenience etc. involved: She’d
been waiting at the airport for five hours.
Forms:
Affirmative: S + had + been + V-ing
(ex: She had been eating for an hour.)
Negative: S + had not/hadn’t + been + V-ing
(ex: She hadn’t been eating for an hour.)
Interrogtive: Had + S + been + V-ing?
(ex: Had she been eating fro an hour?)
Interrogative-Negative: Had + S + not + been + V-ing?
Hadn’t + S +been + V-ing?
(ex: Hadn’t she been eating for an hour?)
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Worksheet
EXERCISES:
1: Underline and identify the past tense forms of the verbs in the following text:
Donald and Elizabeth had been driving to the cinema to see a movie before they
stopped. They had been driving down a dirt road when they heard a strange noise.
Donald stopped the car. He got out of it. Then, he helped Elizabeth out of the car.
She sat and waited for Donald.
Donald looked at the car. It had been going for an hour or so. He knew how to fix
cars. He had been working as a mechanic for 5 years before he moved to the country.
Donald got his tools. He looked under the hood. It seemed that the engine had been
heating up. He crawled under the car.
Donald had been working on the car for a while when Jake parked beside him. Jake
had been driving home when he saw Donald and Elizabeth on the side of the road.
Jake helped Donald fix the car. Donald thanked Jake for his help. Elizabeth waved
to Jake as they drove away. Thanks to his help, they arrived at the cinema in time.
1. Donald and Elizabeth have been driving to the cinema before they stopped.
2. He had been working as a mechanic for 5 years.
3. The engine had been heating up.