2. How long have you been collecting shells?
Unit 6
How long have you been collecting shells?
SECTION A

3. When did you start playing piano?
1999
6 years old
2003
10 years old
now
13 years old
When did you start playing piano?
I started playing piano when I was six years old.
How long have you been playing piano?
I have been playing piano since 1999.

4. When did you start playing basketball?
1999
6 years old
2003
10 years old
now
13 years old
When did you start playing basketball?
I was ten years old.
I started playing basketball when
How long have you been playing basketball?
I have been playing basketball since 1999.

5. 现在完成进行时态
表示从过去某一时刻开始一直延续到现在的
动作，这个动作可以仍然进行。
have / has been + 现在分词

6. How long? Alison Sam Victor Celia
1b Listen. A reporter is talking to the participants in a skating marathon. Fill in the chart below.
How long?
Alison
I’ve been skating for five hours.
Sam
I skated for four hours.
Victor
Celia
I’ve been skating for five hours.
I skated for two hours.

7. 1c PAIRWORK Ask and answer questions about the people in the picture.
A: How long has Alison been skating?
B: She’s been skating for five hours.
A: How long did Sam skate?
B: He skated for four hours.

8. 2a Listen to the interview with the skating marathon winner and check (√) the questions you hear.
1. How long did you skate today?
2. How long have you been skating today?
3. Was this your first skating marathon?
4. Do you skate every day?
5. When did you get your first pair of skate?
6. How long have you been skating?
Answers
a. No, I skated a marathon last
years.
b. Yes, I do.
c. For six hours.
d. Since I was seven years old. √ √ √ √

9. 2b Listen again. Draw lines to match the questions with answers in activity 2a.
1. How long did you skate today?
2. How long have you been skating today?
3. Was this your first skating marathon?
4. Do you skate every day?
5. When did you get your first pair of skate?
6. How long have you been skating?
Answers
a. No, I skated a marathon last
years.
b. Yes, I do.
c. For six hours.
d. Since I was seven years old.

10. 2c PAIRWORK Student A is the reporter. Student B is Alison
2c PAIRWORK Student A is the reporter. Student B is Alison. Role play the interview.
A: How long have you been skating? B: I’ve been skating since I was seven years old.

11. 3a Read the passage and then complete the table.
I’m talking to you from the Hilltop School Skating Marathon. Here, students are skating to raise money for charity. For every hour they skate, each student raises ten yuan for charity. The skating marathon has been going for five hours now, and several skaters are still skating. Alison was the first one to start, and has been skating for the whole five hours. Next is Sam, and he has been skating for four hours. Lu Ning has been skating for four hours too, and Li Chen just started an hour ago.

12. 5 hours 4 hours 4 hours 1 hours Name Has been skating for Alison Sam
Lu Ning
4 hours
Li Chen
1 hours

13. Homework:
Finish off the other exercises in Section A.

14. Good Bye!