World Records and Present Perfect

Progressive

World RecordsBest global performance ever to

be recorded.

The longest snake in the world

Perkin- the world’s smallest cat

Big Mama’s and Papa’s Pizzeria- the largest pizza you can buy

Stig Severinson- longest breath held underwater for 22 min.

1) The oldest hotel is the Nisiyama Osen Keiunkan in Yamanashi, Japan, which has been operating since 705 A.D.

2) The world’s oldest person, Misao Okawa, has been living for 117 years.

3) Michel Lolito has eaten the most amount of metal. He has been eating metal (including an airplane, shopping cart and bicycles) since 1959.

4) Fred Finn is the world’s most traveled person. He has been traveling for 52 years to 150 countries (=16 million miles).

Look at the list of world records

Do you see any similarities between the sentences?

Can you identify the verb tense?

Present Perfect Progressive (pg. 99 in your

textbooks)(have/has + been + verb-ing) is the

form of a present perfect progressive tense

We use this tense to describe actions that:

began in the pastare happening nowwill probably continue in the futurethey are unfinished (progressive)

Practice with Present Perfect Progressive

Do you know someone who has been living for a long time? How long has he/she been living?

Do you eat one food every day? How long have you been eating that food every day?

Do you know someone who has been working in one job for a long time?

Discuss in groups.

CHARADES!

Textbook page 100 ex. 1Please turn to your workbooks and look at

exercise 1 on page 100.

Complete the exercise on your own.

Students will come up to the board and write their sentences.

Write a letter homeStudents will write a letter to a friend or family

member in Japan. Write 3 paragraphs with a present perfect progressive in each paragraph. Describe to your friend/family about your life in New York.

What have you been doing in New York/New Jersey?

How long have you been living in New York/New Jersey?

What hobbies have you been enjoying in New York/New Jersey?

Guess This Person Activity1) She has been the youngest songwriter for the

Sony Music publishing house.

2) She has been writing 40 songs.

3) She has been the first country singer to win an MTV Video Music Award. Her video was “You Belong to Me.”

4) She has been writing most of her songs in her music albums.

5) She has been the youngest artist in history to win a Grammy Award for Album of the year.

Taylor Swift

Your TurnSS will think of a celebrity/famous

person. SS will write down 5 statements describing that person using the present perfect progressive.

After, read your description to the class we will try to guess who it could be.

The Most Experienced Person

In pairs, students will work together to find things that have been doing longer than their partners by asking questions in the present perfect progressive. Name 5 things that you have been doing longer than your partner.

Textbook page 101With partners, students will

complete exercise 4 with partners. Ask and answer questions about your activities.

Talk for a minute

HomeworkFind a world record that you found

online/magazine/article. Write about the world record using a present perfect progressive. It should include 3 sentences:

Who is the record breaker?

What record did he/she break?

Why was it interesting for you?