Category: Անգլերեն 8

Look at the pictures. Write a sentence in the present perfect continuous for each picture.

1 She/run. She has been running.

2 He/cook all morning. He hass been cooking all morning.

3 i /not feel well. I have not been feeling well.

4 You/not practise enough! You have not been practicing enough!

5 They/play football. They have been playing football.

6 We/watch too much TV! We have been waatching too much TV!

d Write complete sentences. Use the present perfect continuous.

1 How long/she/play/the drums?

How long has she been playing the drums?

4 i/not learn/English/very long. I have not been learning Englishh very long.

2 i/wait/for you / for ages! I have been waiting for you for ages!

5 How long/you/eat? How long have you been eating?

3 He/not sleep / enough. He has not been sleeping enough.

6 They/do their homework/for three hours. They have been doing their homework for three hours.

Complete the sentences with the correct perfect continuous tense:
She she has been working  (work) here for five years. (present perfect continuous)
I  (study) English since I was a child. (present perfect continuous)
They have been playing (play) football for an hour before it started to rain. (past perfect continuous)
He has been waiting (wait) for 30 minutes when the bus finally arrived. (past perfect continuous)
By next month, we have been living (live) in this city for a decade. (future perfect continuous)
She has been practicing (practice) the piano for two hours by the time her lesson starts. (future perfect continuous)

🔹 Choose the correct form:
I have been working have been working / had been working here since 2020.
They will have been traveling / have been traveling for a week by Friday.
He had been sleeping / has been sleeping before you called.
We will have been studying / have studied for six hours by the time the test begins.

🔹 Make sentences using the prompts:
She / read / all morning (present perfect continuous)
They / wait / for hours before help arrived (past perfect continuous)
By June / I / work / at the company / for 2 years (future perfect continuous)

1. She has been reading all morning.

2. They had been waiting for hours before help arrived.

3. By June, I will have been working at the company for 2 years.

a. Complete the sentences. Use the past simple passive form of the verbs.

1. The Statue of Liberty was built (build) in France.

2. It was a terrible accident. How many people were killed (kill)?

3. Tomas fell off his bike yesterday, but he wasn’t injured (not injure).

4. We didn’t play well yesterday. We were beaten (beat) 4-0!

5. When the volcano erupted, the noise was heard (hear) 200 kilometers away.

b. Complete the sentences with a, an, the or — (no article).

My grandparents live in the countryside, in an old cottage. It’s got a bedroom, a bathroom, a living room and a kitchen. The bedroom and the living room are quite big, but the kitchen’s very small! I love — cottages like my grandparents’.

c. Complete the sentences with too much/too many or not (n’t) enough.

1. There’s nowhere to sit — there aren’t enough chairs here!

2. I couldn’t finish the test because there wasn’t enough time.

3. I feel sick — I think I’ve eaten too much chocolate!

4. I didn’t really enjoy my visit to Rome because there were too many tourists everywhere.

d. Complete the sentences with will or be going to.

1. Next summer we’re going (go) to Spain for our holiday. We’ve booked the flights.

2. I’ve put some old clothes on because I am going to wash (wash) my dad’s car for him.

3. What time are we going to meet (meet) John this evening.

4. Please can you lend me some money? I promise I will pay (pay) you back on Friday.

2. Vocabulary
a. Underline the odd one out.

1. damage, destroy, hurt, rescue

2. bungalow, garage, cottage, flat

3. flood, earthquake, tsunami, bomb

4. TV aerial, semi-detached house, chimney, gate

5. caravan, terraced house, bungalow, detached house

b. Complete the sentences with the correct words from the box. Use the correct form when necessary.

1. On average, floods kill about 140 people a year in the USA.

2. Lots of people lost their lives when the volcano erupted.

3. People living in the Caribbean are sometimes hit by hurricanes.

4. The catastrophe caused a lot of damage and eventually the government had to help.

5. This information is essential for people who live in areas with lots of earthquakes.

6. We didn’t watch the match — there was a problem with the TV aerial.

Today we visited the Martiros Saryan Museum and explored many of his remarkable paintings. I noticed that Saryan pays great attention to small details, and each of his works carries a deep and thoughtful meaning.

One painting that truly stood out to me was Three Years. It portrays Saryan at three different stages of his life – as a child, a young man, and an old man. It’s the only painting that left a strong impression on me.


The first period, “Fairy Tales and Dreams” features watercolor paintings using the wet paper technique, blending fantasy and folklore. The second period, influenced by his travels to Egypt, is more vibrant, incorporating symbols like pyramids, masks, and the Armenian symbol of eternity. 

After returning to Armenia, Saryan built his home, designed by architect Alexander Tamanyan. In 1967, a museum was added beside it, making him one of the rare artists to witness the opening of a museum dedicated to his work during his lifetime. 

After the museum, we went out to eat and enjoyed a pleasant time together.

Martiros Saryan was born on February 16 (28), 1880, in Nor Nakhijevan. He was a prominent Armenian painter, often called the “master of colors” or the “magician of colors.”

Saryan’s ancestors had emigrated from Ani to Crimea, then to Nor Nakhijevan. In 1895, he graduated from the Armenian-Russian school in Nor Nakhijevan, in 1903, from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and improved his skills in the studios of Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin. During his studies, he created “Self-portrait”, “Mayravank” (1902), portraits of his mother, Ustiyan Saryan (1898) and Sofya Miansaryan (1903).

In 1901, he first visited Yerevan, Ashtarak, Vagharshapat, Sevan, and in 1902, Ani.

“Nature creates man so that he can see himself and admire himself through man…” — Martiros Saryan

He considered a miracle something that many people don’t even notice: color. “I dream about color, color is a real miracle,” he said. Saryan mainly painted images of nature, which I really like.