For and Since

- You useFORif you don't have to calculate theperiod of time, because you have it in the sentence INCLUDEPICTURE "http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/images/smiley1.gif" \* MERGEFORMATINET

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I have lived hereFORtwo months ( you don't have to calculate, you know theperiodis "two months" )

- You useSINCEif you have to calculate the period of time, because you only have thestarting point:

I have lived hereSINCE1975 ( you have to calculate now: if you came in 1975 - thestarting point- and now it is 2009, then 2009-1975 = 24 years

1. I have been living inNew York________________1 year

2. I haven't seen you___________________a week

3. I have been waiting_________________________12.304. I've lived here_________________5years.

5. I've lived here___________________2003

6. ________________she came here I've been very nervous

7. She has been married______________________ten years

8. She has been a doctor____________________1998

9. I have been living inValencia___________________last June

10. I haven't seen you_______________________last week

11. Yesterday I studied___________________three hours

12. She has been studying English_________________two months

13. She has been studying English__________________last January

14. She has been studying English___________________12.00

15. She has been studying English_______________your birthday

16. She has been studying English__________________two hours

17. She has been studying English________________six minutes

18. She has been studying English__________________a long time

19. I've beenworking here____________________the last two years.

20. I have loved you_______________________the first time I saw you

Since- if the starting point is given (two o'clock, last Friday, 1998)for- if the period of time is given (twenty minutes, two days, one year)

I have been waiting_________________4 o'clock.

Sue has only been waiting________________20 minutes.

Tim and Tina have been learning English____________________six years.

Fred and Frida have been learning French_________________1998.

Joe and Josephine have been going out together_______________Valentine's Day.

I haven't been on holiday______________________last July.

Mary has been saving her money___________________many years.

I haven't eaten anything___________________________breakfast.

You have been watching TV_________________________________hours.

We have been living here______________________________2 months.

last weekend

ten seconds

Christmas Eve

a decade

I finished school

a couple of days

my birthday

a long time

ten centuries

the 70s

I was a boy

August

the last month

fifteen years

the accident

then

we bought this house

last month

I met you