Some of the many possibilities for Present Perfect Continuous lying games are: Lying games are perfect for this grammar point, because they can make up for students’ lack of real personalised examples, and are naturally communicative without needing to put the grammar in a common conversational context.

Present Perfect Continuous bluffing games Perhaps after follow-up questions, the other person then guesses which answers aren’t true.

giving false answers to half of the questions.

using cards with lengths of time on to answer all the questions.

having to answer “Yes” to all “Can you…?” questions.

Students ask “Can you…?” and their partner tries to answer with “Yes, I’ve been (using PowerPoint) for … years”. Present Perfect Continuous job interviews Students can either compete to do the best mime or guess what other people are miming, from prompts on the worksheet or the board like “I’m sad because I’ve been watching a romantic movie” and “I’ve been waiting for ages”. See Present Perfect Continuous Sentence Stem Activities below for one more guessing game. Students can either guess how someone feels because of the (imaginary) action that they say they have been doing (“I’ve been painting the fence” “I guess you are feeling satisfied”) or guess the action from the feeling (“I’m feeling bored” “I guess you have been doing your homework”). Present Perfect Continuous feelings guessing games Students ask each other “How long have I been wearing this shirt?”, “How long has my grandmother been living in the same house?”, etc, and give hints like “slightly shorter” and “much longer” until their partner guesses exactly the right length of time. Lengths of time warmer cooler guessing game One of the feelings games below also involves guessing the action. Students give hints like “I’ve been doing this since I left home” and “My mother has been doing this since she got married” until their partner guesses what the action is (e.g.

Present Perfect Continuous guessing games Present Perfect Continuous action guessing game “I’ve been learning English for over 35 years” and “I’ve been making TikTok videos for over three weeks”. Students try to find things that they have been doing for longer than their partner, e.g. There are also ways to contrast it with Present Perfect Simple in another articles on this site.

This article gives 21 communicative ideas using just this tense. Present Perfect Continuous is a tricky but surprisingly common tense that is well worth some practice on its own.

Present perfect games