1. Present perfect progressive Past perfect progressive

2. Future Perfect Will have + -ed
Actions completed by a certain time in the future
By 6 pm tonight, she will have cooked dinner.
By next week, I will have completed all my presentations.
By this time next time, I will have visited the U.S.

3. Future Perfect Progressive
Will have + been + -ing verb
An action that starts before a time in the future and continues up to that time
In April 2009, I will have been teaching here for 2 years.

4. Future perfect progressive (2)
If someone asks you, how long have you been going to school here? You might want to answer with an even number, so you might say:
“In June, I will have been attending school here for 2 years.”

5. Present Perfect Progressive
Have/has + been + -ing verb
Actions that started in the past and are continuing to now. Focus on the process.
Often used with time phrases “for” and “since”
I have been living in London for two years.
She’s been working here since 2004.
I’m so tired because I’ve been running.

6. Past perfect progressive
Had + been +-ing verb
An action that started in the PAST PAST and continued up to another event or action in the past
The cause of something in the past
She had been working for the company a year when she met James.
The road was wet because it had been raining.

7. She had been working for the company a year when she met James.
The road was wet because it had been raining.
Working for
the company
Met James
Now

8. Some differences & Notes
*Progressive tenses (-ing) always focus on the process or continuation of something
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*Past perfect & Past perfect progressive= PAST PAST. Must be before something else in the past.
*Future perfect & Future perfect progressive= BY some time in the future

9. Practice Cards Will have eaten Will have been eating Has been eating
Had been eating
Has eaten
Had eaten

10. By the year 2020, humans _____ most of the worlds animals.
Will have eaten

11. You’re saying that your stomach is in pain. What _____ recently?
Have you eaten, have you been eating

12. We _______ lunch for almost an hour before she final arrived.
Had been eating

13. Yes, I ______ eggplant before.
Have eaten

14. She __(not)__ eaten tofu until she came to Asia.
Had not eaten

15. If we keep eating like this, by 3 PM, we _____ for over two hours.
Will have been eating

16. She ______ vegetables ever since she was a baby.
Has eaten, has been eating

17. Had been eating, had eaten
When I went to pick up the food I had dropped on the floor, it wasn’t much left because the ants ______ it.
Had been eating, had eaten