Present Perfect / Present Perfect Progressive
1. I … never … (be) to Australia.
2. … he …… (repair) his car since 4 o’clock?
3. Jenna …. (talk) to the marketing director since 5 o’clock.
4. …. he … (pass) the exam yet?
5. Uncle Tim … (decorate) the New Year Tree since morning.
6. My father …. (send) application letters for half a year already and still he hasn’t got a job.
7. We ….. just … (meet) an American actor.
8. … your husband … (sell) the house yet?
9. I … (start) my new job yet.
10. I …. (search) for it for a long time.
11. … you ever … (be) to New York?

1. it (has been snowing) steadily the whole week and it is still (snowing) 2. we (have been climbing) for six hours already, but we (haven't reach) the top of the mountain yet. 3. the pain has already (gone) but the child is still (crying). 4. have the workers (been working) very hard these two weeks? they (were) busy with the interior decoration of the house. 5. he (has been solving) the crossword puzzle for an hour and he (says) he is about to solve it as he (is thinking) over the last word оf it 6. he (has been working) at the language all the time and (has made) great progress. his pronunciation is rather good, only a slight accent (remains). 7. не (has finished) the first part of his book and now he (is writing) the second. he (has been working) at his book for two years. 8. dusliri hoffman, who (plays) the hero, (is giving) a fine performance. 9. why is your hair wet? have you been (swimming)? 10. doctors and scientists have recently shown the benefit of fish in the diet

1 January - the Euro introduced in non-cash transactions
January 12 - Ousted Malian dictator Moussa traoré and his wife were sentenced to death for major theft
January 24th - Columbia. A strong earthquake, over 700 dead, over 3,000 wounded
January 25 - about a thousand people died because of the earthquake in Colombia.
January 28 - Moscow hosted the final of the first international beauty contest "Miss Commonwealth"
January 31 - the first part of the cult game series Silent Hill (the first video game in the genre of survival horror)
16 February in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) there was a terrorist attack — a series of explosions
February 16 - in Belarus began the census
On 20 February in Moscow in the Kremlin Palace the premiere of film Nikita Mikhalkov