● Module 1 – Present Tenses – Talking about Work Now

Lesson 4: Present Perfect Continuous.

Learning Objective:
To present your achievements and professional background without specifying an exact date.

Lesson 4:
Has been…

How long has your company been…

A client asks: “How long has your company been in this market?”. They want to know your “stamina” and history.

The Present Perfect, use this tense to connect the past to the present.

We use have/has been + verb-ing.

Intent: To focus on the duration of an action that started in the past and continues now.
Examples:
- I have been working in finance for ten years.
  (Trabalho na área de finanças há dez anos.)
- We have been negotiating this deal since March.
  |Estamos negociando este acordo desde março.)

Now let’s have some Active Practice.

Structure: Build a sentence using “I / work / here / for 2 years”.
Sentence Creation: Use “since” to describe how long you have been in your current role.
Role-play: Tell a client how long your team has been developing a specific solution.

Answers

Structure: I / work / here / for 2 years

I have been working here for 2 years.
I’ve been working here for two years.

Sentence Creation (using since)

I have been working in my current role since 2023.
I have been working as a project manager since last year.
I’ve been working in this position since January.

Role-play (talking to a client)

Our team has been developing this solution for six months.
We have been working on this platform since last year.
Our team has been improving this system for several months.
We’ve been developing this product since January.

Checkpoint!

Answer the question:
“How long have you been learning English for your career?”

Next: Lesson 5: Past Simple.

We will learn how o talk about completed projects, previous jobs, and specific past events with dates.