Continuous Aspect Sentence Completion Games

Continuous aspect sentence completion games

Play one of the two games below, following your teacher’s instructions.

Game A: Continuous aspect sentence completion bluff

Fill most of the gaps below with a mix of true and false information. Read out sentences and see if your partner can guess which ones aren’t true, perhaps after asking follow up questions (to which you can continue to lie if you have read out an untrue sentence).

Game B: Continuous aspect sentence completion game

Fill most of the gaps below with true information about yourself. Read out just the part that you have written in one of the sentences and see if your partner can guess which sentence it comes from, using the grammar and what they imagine about your life to make their guesses.

I have __________________________________________________ twice.

 

I have been ____________________________________________ a lot recently.

 

I have ________________________________________________ recently.

 

I have been _____________________________________ for more than five years.

 

I haven’t been ________________________________________ for very long.

 

I haven’t __________________________________________ many times.

 

I haven’t ______________________________________________ yet.

 

I had been _________________________ for a while when I got my present job.

 

I was __________________________________________ when I got my present job.

 

I was _________________ when I met my boyfriend/ girlfriend/ best friend/ husband/ wife.

 

I had already ___________ when I met my boyfriend/ girlfriend/ best friend/ husband/ wife.

 

I had never ____________________________________________ before I went abroad.

 

I was ____________________________________________ at 8 o’clock this morning.

 

I will _________________________________________ straight after this class.

 

I will be ___________________________________________ at 11 o’clock tonight.

 

I will be ______________________________________________ in five years’ time.

 

I will probably have __________________________________ by the time I am 70.

 

Which tenses are needed to complete each sentence above and why? What is the general meaning of the continuous aspect?