Part 1. Nature Sang in Literature/ Part 2. Nature Sang in Painting/ Part 3. Landscape

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Present Perfect Continuous Active – служит для выражения действия, которое началось в прошлом и длилось на протяжении определённого периода или всё ещё длиться в этот момент, либо только что закончилось. Time Markers – all … long (all day long, all week long, all month long, …), for …, since …
Positive	Negative	Interrogative
□ have/has been Ving ■. The birds have been babbling since this morning. □ – The birds have/has been Ving – have been babbling T.M. – since this morning	□ haven’t/hasn’t been Ving ■. The wind hasn’t been blowing all day long. □ – The wind haven’t/hasn’t been Ving – hasn’t been blowing T.M. – all day long	1. Optional: Have/Has □ been Ving ■? Has the sun been heating all summer long? – Yes, it has./ No, it hasn’t. 2. Special: Q.w. have/has □ been Ving ■? How long has this fruit been growing? – About two months I think

Exercise 1. Read the following situations and write positive or negative sentences in present perfect continuous choosing from the verbs below:

shine, swim, rain, travel, storm, cover, float, burn, smell, rain, draw

1. It … for a week. – It has been raining for a week.

2. The painter … the landscape for two years already.

3. They … in the mountains for a month.

4. The grass has dried. It … for three months.

5. What a cloudy weather today! The sun … since this morning.

6. It is windy. The clouds … in the sky all day long.

7. The lightning has hit the tree in our yard. It … for two hours.

8. We are happy to walk today. The bird cherry trees are blossoming. We … the intoxicating fragrance of flowers for two hours already.

9. The sea is placid today. It … since last week. So the people … all week long.

10. It is spring but snow hasn’t melted yet. It … the ground for 7 months already.

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Past Perfect Continuous Active – служит для выражения длительного действия, которое началось до какого-либо момента в прошлом или длилось в этот момент, или закончилось непосредственно перед ним. Time Markers – all … long , for …, since … before, regularly
Positive	Negative	Interrogative
□ had been Ving ■. We enjoyed our walk in the park yesterday. The birds had been babbling all evening long. □ – The birds had been Ving – had been babbling T.M. – all evening long	□ hadn’t been Ving ■. The ship didn’t move far yesterday. The wind hadn’t been blowing all day long. □ – The wind hadn’t been Ving – hadn’t been blowing T.M. – all day long	1. Optional: Had □ been Ving ■? The grass was yellow on the last year photos. Had the sun been heating all summer long? – Yes, it had. 2. Special: Q.w. had □ been Ving ■? We bought a strange fruit. It was so big that we were interested in, “How long had it been growing?”

Exercise 2. Read the following situations and write positive or negative sentences in past perfect continuous using the verbs below:

dream, fall, flow, sparkle, play, move, last, illuminate, rush, walk, sit, blow, listen to

1. It was a starry night. The moon … brightly everything around till the first sun’s rays. – It was a starry night. The moon had been illuminating brightly everything around till the first sun’s rays.

2. What a wonderful day was yesterday. The sun was shining brightly without giving any warmth. The air was clean and limpid. The wind … and only the vast snow-white covering … with all colours of rainbow all day long.

3. When the painter drew this landscape the nature … with its long winter sleep.

4. We were in the forest last weekends. The air was so fresh and the fragrance of new foliage and flowers was so strong that we … until it got dark.

5. It was a hot day. When they approached to the pure brook to drink some water they felt better. It … fast on the stony bottom attracting the forest dwellers by its water murmur and cold freshness.

6. It was a dull rainy autumn day. The summer … long in this forgotten land of the north.

7. It was drizzling. He put on his rain coat and sat near the fire trying to get warm. Then he closed his eyes and remembered the summer day when he … near the fire and … to the birds’ babbling and the bees’ buzz.

8. The leaves … yet but he felt the soon coming of autumn.

9. He saw the bears in the forest last summer. The little bear-cubs … carelessly all day long under the supervision of the mother-bear. First he … for some time because he was afraid of mother-bear’s attack. When he understood that she couldn’t notice him he started to run away.

10. The insects, birds, and animals hid in their shelters in order to be protected from the storm rapidly moving towards them. Only the sea-gulls … impetuously up and down above the river covered with ripples presaging the thunderstorm.

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Future Perfect Continuous Active – служит для выражения будущего длительного действия, которое начнётся до какого-либо момента в будущем или будет длиться в этот момент или завершиться непосредственно перед ним. Time Markers – for … by … (for 5 hours by 10 pm, …), for … at … (for 5 hours at that time, …), … by that time (too long by that time, …), the whole time
Positive	Negative	Interrogative
□ shall/will have been Ving ■. By next year this tree will have been growing for thirty years. □ – this tree shall/will have been Ving – will have been growing T.M. – Next year … for thirty years	□ shan’t/won’t have been Ving ■. The ship is leaving the port tomorrow. It will be sailing in the ocean from the 1st – to the 15th of August. It will be a pleasant voyage. It won’t have been storming till the very end of the trip. □ – It shan’t/won’t have been Ving – won’t have been storming T.M. – till the very end of the trip	1. Optional: Shall/Will □ have been Ving ■? Will it have been raining for two weeks tomorrow? – Yes, it will. 2. Special: Q.w. shall/will □ have been Ving ■? How long will this tree have been growing by next year?

Exercise 3. Read the following text “Before the storm” and fill in the gaps with the verbs below in future perfect continuous, use positive or negative forms:

hide, rustle, rattle, strike, fly, last, pour, bend, move, rush, float