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Present Perfect Continuous — The Rise of the Four-Day Week

Grammar: Present Perfect Continuous

Free ESL grammar exercise on present perfect continuous themed around the rise of the four-day week. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.

What's on this worksheet

A Level 4 (upper intermediate) ESL grammar exercise on work, practising present perfect continuous. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.

From the reading

Since 2019, thousands of companies across Europe, Asia, and Latin America have been experimenting with a four-day week.

Grammar: Present Perfect Continuous

Form
Subject + have/has been + verb-ing. Use 'has' with he/she/it; 'have' with I/you/we/they.
Duration — for / since
They have been testing the policy for three years / since 2021. — marks how long an action has continued.

Sample items

  1. Companies ______ (trial) the four-day week since 2019.
  2. Iceland's government ______ (monitor) productivity in hospitals for four years.
  3. Workers ______ (call) in sick less frequently since the new policy started.

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