hi there and welcome to this my latest IELTS video first of all I want to say
that I hope you all had a great Christmas if you celebrate Christmas and
I hope you're looking forward to the new year this is another video which is
intended to show you how to help your score for grammatical range in the IELTS
exam and specifically we're going to look again at how to get a good score
for grammatical range in part two of your speaking exam that's the long turn
in this particular case we're going to look at a tense called the present
perfect continuous tense and I am going to show you how you can use this tense
to answer basically any task to question so we'll come on to that in a minute
I also wanted to say to you that I have a special offer for my subscribers to
this video it's something that will be very useful it's completely free it's
not an offer you're gonna see on other YouTube IELTS videos so please stay
tuned to this to this video and they will give you more information about
this special offer later so the present perfect continuous tense how can you use
this in your long turn there are different ways that we can use this
tense in English but the way that I suggest that you use it in this IELTS
speaking exam in your long turn is to use it to talk about something that has
become a habit so something that you do regularly and I'm going to show you how
you can do that in this lesson I'm also going to show you towards the end of the
video how you can link this tense to your news of the past perfect tense
which was the subject of my most recent lesson so here are some example
sentences that news the present perfect continuous tense to give you an idea of
how this tense works I first went to this gym last October
and I've been going regularly ever since I first tried this dish when I was on
holiday in Thailand and I've been cooking it for myself ever since I got
back note this does not mean that you spend every single minute of your life
cooking this dish let's know what it means it means that when you cook you
often make this dish and the third sentence I first went to Greece when I
was only four years old and I've been holidaying there regularly
ever since now in the next slide I'm going to show you how to form this tense
so how do you form the tense you should use the present tense of the verb have
so I have he has we have etc and the past participle of the verb be which is
always been finally you add the present participle of the main verb in the
sentence the present participle in English will always end in ing so it
makes it nice and easy to remember how to news the present participle so as an
example I wanted to study French when I was in high school and I have been
studying it ever since sorry a little mistake there not I wanted to
study French but as you can see I started to study French when I was in
high school and I have been studying it ever since now two warnings about when
not to news this tense you can only use this tense to talk about something that
is still true now so if you had a habit in the past something that you used to
do regularly but that you do not do anymore
then you cannot use this tense secondly you need to be careful about
which verbs you news with this tense there is a rule in English and this
applies to all forms of continuous tenses which means that only those verbs
which involve doing things such as punching or nodding your head or shaking
your head running kicking jumping saying talking action verbs are the only verbs
that can be used in the continuous tenses what we call stative verbs which
are things about things like belief or agreement
you cannot news in continuous senses so you cannot say I am a believing you you
have to say I believe you okay so now I want to challenge you the viewer to take
action I want to help you with your IELTS speaking exam I want to see that
you have understood this lesson on the present perfect continuous tense and my
last one on the past perfect tense so I'm making an offer to you as
subscribers this offer only for subscribers the author is this if you
make a video of yourself answering a task to question and send it to me I
will provide you with written feedback on your recording completely free there
are some conditions and I'll tell you about these at the end of the video so
next I'm going to show you examples of how to use the past perfect tense and
the present perfect continuous tense together to answer task 2 questions so
the first question describe a place that you would like to visit well um
I'd like to visit young my in the north of Thailand Thai people tell me that
it's beautiful ah I know Thailand well as I've been
going to the country regularly since my first trip which was 10 years ago I went
to the capital Bangkok on my first visit it was an incredibly exciting trip and I
loved absolutely everything apart from the heat I had planned to go in January
but changed my plans because of work and went in April which meant it was the hot
season it was hot and that's one of the reasons
that I'd like to go to Chiang Mai because it's cooler than the rest of the
country but has all the other advantages of the hotter places such as great food
and friendly people so that's one example in answer to the question
describe a place that you would like to visit now a second example for you
describe a personal achievement that you are proud of well funnily enough I've
just completed the London Marathon I had planned to run it two years ago but I
got injured and so postponed until earlier this year I started to run
regularly about five years ago I remember that I ran a 10k in the Royal
Parks in London on a cold October day and I've been running in various events
ever since then but never a marathon until this past April I completed this
marathon in 3 hours and 42 minutes which was a really good time that I was very
happy with so that's a second example for you and you will see that we'd used
both the past perfect tense I had planned to run it two years ago but I
got injured and so postponed and the present perfect continuous tense I've
been a running in various events ever since then so finally about my offer
here are the conditions for the offer you must record a video of yourself
speaking it must be a task to so the long turn and you should talk for
up to two minutes you must try to use the past perfect sense and the present
perfect continuous tense in your videoed answer you should send me a contact
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