Past Perfect Continuous - Virtually Fluent

Course Facts

* When all activities are completed thoroughly with 10 minutes allocated to each self-study activity.

Course Objectives

To understand the situations when the past perfect continuous tense is required
To know how to form the present participle for any verb
To use the past perfect continuous in the affirmative, negative, question and short response forms
To identify keywords that are used in the past perfect continuous and use them correctly
To avoid common mistakes that learners make in the past perfect continuous tense
To understand what a stative verb is and recognise the most common stative verbs in English
To correctly pronounce any word ending in ING according to the pronunciation rules and understand the differences between slang and proper ING pronunciation
To correctly pronounce contractions using had been
To use word stress and sentence stress to correctly pronounce past perfect continuous phrases

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Past Perfect Continuous Introduction 3 Topics

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Past Perfect Continuous Course Syllabus 5min

Read an extensive course syllabus that explains what each activity is, how to complete it and how it will help you improve your understanding of the past perfect continuous tense.

Past Perfect Continuous Course Objectives 5min

We set out the key objectives for this course so you can identify what you need to learn. We provide a downloadable checklist that you can print out to check off the points as you go through the course.

Past Perfect Continuous Tense Introduction 5min

A presentation that explains what tenses are, why we need them and how the tense system works in English. As well as a presentation, you can test yourself using our interactive question and answer flashcards.

Past Perfect Continuous Grammar 10 Topics | 1 Quiz

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Past Perfect Continuous Grammar Introduction 10min

Start the grammar section of this course with a brief introduction and access to all the documents required for the video series. We explain how the video series works and you can download our interactive worksheet, which you can answer whilst watching our videos, alongside the answers and the slides used in our explanation videos.

Past Perfect Continuous Use 7min

Learn about the situations we use the past perfect continuous tense in this grammar video. Although there are only a few uses of this tense, we explain them in detail using timelines to visually represent the tense and provide numerous example sentences.

Past Perfect Continuous Present Participle 13min

One of the key parts of the past perfect continuous tense is the present participle. Luckily, there are strict rules and patterns that all verbs follow to form their present participle form and we teach them all in this video. As well as extensive explanations and examples, we summarise all of the rules in a one-page printout.

Past Perfect Continuous Affirmative 4min

This video explains the affirmative structure of the past perfect continuous tense. We explain the structure and provide numerous examples as well as an introduction to contractions.

Past Perfect Continuous Negative 3min

This video explains the negative structure of the past perfect continuous tense. We explain the structure and provide numerous examples as well as a review of contractions.

Past Perfect Continuous Questions 4min

There are two different question structures in the past perfect continuous tense and we teach them both in this video. We introduce our acronyms that can help you remember these question structures more easily and provide numerous example questions too.

Past Perfect Continuous Short Responses 4min

Short responses aren't often taught in grammar courses, but we want to explain everything to you. As well as an introduction to short responses and why you need them to fit in to the polite English culture, we explain how you can use them in the past perfect continuous tense.

Past Perfect Continuous Keywords 6min

Keywords are special words that work very well with a certain tense and in this video we pick out four important keywords often used in the past perfect continuous tense. We explain where they should be placed in a past perfect continuous sentence and what other requirements they have so they can be used correctly. We summarise all the information in this video with a one-page printout.

Past Perfect Continuous Common Mistakes 5min

Through teaching experience, we have identified the top mistakes that people make when trying to use the past perfect continuous tense. We present the top three in this video with explanations of the mistakes and how to correct them.

Past Perfect Continuous In Real Life 10min

Review some examples of the past perfect continuous tense being used by native speakers in everyday life. We provide some examples from various news sources as well as Google search and present them in a fully-referenced presentation.

Past Perfect Continuous Quiz

Test your knowledge and understanding of the past perfect continuous tense in this quiz and receive your results immediately after. We provide detailed answers and explanations and you can repeat the quiz as many times as you wish. Your first result will be added to our course leaderboard so you can compare your score to our other course learners.

Past Perfect Continuous Pronunciation 7 Topics

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Past Perfect Continuous Pronunciation Introduction 10min

Start the pronunciation section of this course with a brief introduction and access to all the documents required for the video series. We explain how the video series works and you can download our interactive worksheet, which you can answer whilst watching our videos, alongside the answers and the slides used in our explanation videos.

Past Perfect Continuous Slang ING 4min

Although the letters ING seem relatively simple, there are three possible ways to pronounce them and we explain all three pronunciations in this video. As well as close-up videos of the correct pronunciation, we explain why this is relevant for the past perfect continuous tense.

Past Perfect Continuous Word Stress 5min

Every present participle word is pronounced in a very particular way. Because the present participle is a key part of the past perfect continuous tense, we review this pronunciation so you can say any present participle correctly.

Past Perfect Continuous Sentence Stress 6min

Sentence stress is an essential pronunciation tool if you want to sound more fluent and native in English. We explain the basics of sentence stress in this video and how this applies directly to the past perfect continuous tense. After this video, you should be able to pronounce any sentence in the past perfect continuous tense perfectly, whether it is affirmative, negative or contracted form.

Past Perfect Continuous Contractions Pronunciation 5min

In the grammar video series, you'll learn that contractions are an important tool when wanting to speak more fluently. Despite contractions being a fairly simple construction, their pronunciation can sometimes cause some issues. This presentation shows the phonetic transcription of the contractions necessary for the past perfect continuous tense and you can listen to audios of our native teachers saying them out loud.

Past Perfect Continuous ING Practice 10min

Practise saying common verbs ending in ING using our downloadable document to guide you. You can access audios of our native teachers reading these verbs out loud too, so you can listen and repeat or talk at the same time.Â

Past Perfect Continuous Sentences to Practise 10min

Practise the correct sentence stress for affirmative, negative and contracted words in the past perfect continuous tense. Use our downloadable document and listen to audios of our native teachers saying these verbs out loud to correct yourself.

Past Perfect Continuous Self-Study 4 Topics

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Past Perfect Continuous Present Participle Flashcards 10min

A sub-topic of this tense is being able to convert verbs into their present participle formation. Use these verb flashcards to test your ability to turn any verb into its present participle.Â We also provide an online tool as an alternative to printing.

Past Perfect Continuous Time Phrases 10min

Practise using time phrases correctly in the past perfect continuous tense using our time flashcards to prompt you. You can download and print out our flashcards or use our online tool to avoid printing.

Past Perfect Continuous Explanations 10min

Read a variety of scenarios on our very own flashcards and try to explain why this situation occurred using the past perfect continuous tense. You can be as creative as you wish. You can write your suggestions in our group forum and get feedback and corrections from our course teachers.

Past Perfect Continuous The Last Time 10min

Talking about your own personal experiences using the past perfect continuous tense is very useful for real-life conversational situations. We ask you to remember what you were doing just before a daily routine activity, so you can practise using this tense in a realistic and everyday way.

Past Perfect Continuous Summary 3 Topics

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Past Perfect Continuous Review Page 10min

This review page summarises everything learnt in this course. We present all the forms of the past perfect continuous tense as well as the use, some example sentences, keywords, present participle formation and ING pronunciation all in one page.

Past Perfect Continuous Learning Outcomes 5min

We list the objectives of this course and your achievements, so you can see how much you have progressed by taking our course.

Past Perfect Continuous Course Feedback 5min

We always appreciate any feedback from our learners. Here you have the chance to fill in an optional questionnaire telling us what you liked and didn't like so we can keep on improving for our future learners.

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27 Topics
1 Quiz
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