C. Complete the story with the idioms above. Put the
verbs in the correct form. Listen and check.
Every day the Evil Queen asked
her magic mirror: "Mirror, Mirror
on the wall! Who's the most beauti-
ful in the world?” She was always
(1) ... while listening to the answer:
"You, my Queen, are the most beau-
tiful in the world!” But Snow White
was growing and getting prettier
and prettier. Soon everyone could
see (2) ... that she was the most gorgeous woman in
the kingdom. One day, the queen asked the mirror her

Самое главное про Present Perfect Continuous - это то, что оно указывает на действие, которое началось когда-то в продолжалось выполняться  в течение какого-то времени и либо закончилось непосредственно перед разговором или все еще продолжается в момент разговора. При этом говорящему важность подчеркнуть длительность действия, кроме того говорящий предполагает какое-то влияние этого действия на настоящий момент. (старался-старался, и вот))).

образуется так: вс глагол (have been или has been (для 3 лица единственного числа) + смысловой глагол с окончанием -ing.

отрицательная форма добаляет not , то есть получается вс глагол (have been или has been (для 3 лица единственного числа) + not + смысловой глагол с окончанием -ing.

Маркерами этого времени являются например слова since ( с какого-то момента), for (в течение какого-то времени for half an), all (all the morning) и другие.

Примеры в плане учебы, соревнований могут быть такие:

I have been learning English for 4 years. (при этом имеется в виду, что и сейчас в этом году учу).

I have been preparing for the competition since April (и не бросил подготовку и даже достиг каких-то результатов).

Once upon a time there was a girl, whose name was Eleanor Nait. She died of a drug overdose. No, she wasn't an addict. Just two boys were bored and they decided to give her some drugs. That was an overdose, so why she is dead. The girl neither get to heaven nor hell. Her location now is a simple room, from which she can't go out for a week already. She was an ordinary girl, who has everything: a family, a boyfriend, some friends. The same as other teenagers, she loved to have fun, but she would never take drugs. Nait accuses herself about being not so serious and not thinking about the consequences in her seventeen. If she were alive, she wouldn't do anything fiddle-faddle, but it's too late. It has no sense. People are such things, which don't appreciate what they have, and begin to appreciate, when the lost it. The same to her. But she can't even imagine, how her death will go on her favor.