Destination B1 · Grammar & Vocabulary · Mann & Taylore-Knowles
Destination B1
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UNIT 1 · GRAMMAR
Present simple / continuous / stative
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UNIT 2 · GRAMMAR
Past simple / continuous / used to
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UNIT 3 · VOCAB
Fun and games
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UNIT 4 · GRAMMAR
Present perfect simple / continuous
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UNIT 5 · GRAMMAR
Past perfect simple / continuous
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UNIT 6 · VOCAB
Learning and doing
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UNIT 7 · GRAMMAR
Future time
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UNIT 8 · GRAMMAR
Prepositions of time and place
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UNIT 9 · VOCAB
Coming and going
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UNIT 10 · GRAMMAR
The passive 1
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UNIT 11 · GRAMMAR
The passive 2
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UNIT 12 · VOCAB
Friends and relations
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UNIT 13 · GRAMMAR
Countable and uncountable nouns
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UNIT 14 · GRAMMAR
Articles
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UNIT 15 · VOCAB
Buying and selling
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UNIT 16 · GRAMMAR
Pronouns and possessive determiners
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UNIT 17 · GRAMMAR
Relative clauses
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UNIT 18 · VOCAB
Inventions and discoveries
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UNIT 19 · GRAMMAR
Modals 1: ability, permission, advice
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UNIT 20 · GRAMMAR
Modals 2: obligation, probability
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UNIT 21 · VOCAB
Sending and receiving
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UNIT 22 · GRAMMAR
Modals 3: the modal perfect
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UNIT 23 · GRAMMAR
Questions, question tags, indirect Qs
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UNIT 24 · VOCAB
People and daily life
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UNIT 25 · GRAMMAR
So / such, too / enough
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UNIT 26 · GRAMMAR
Comparatives and superlatives
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UNIT 27 · VOCAB
Working and earning
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UNIT 28 · GRAMMAR
Conditionals 1 (zero, first, second)
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UNIT 29 · GRAMMAR
Conditionals 2 (third)
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UNIT 30 · VOCAB
Body and lifestyle
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UNIT 31 · GRAMMAR
Reported speech
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UNIT 32 · GRAMMAR
Reported questions, orders, requests
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UNIT 33 · VOCAB
Creating and building
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UNIT 34 · GRAMMAR
Direct and indirect objects
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UNIT 35 · GRAMMAR
wish
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UNIT 36 · VOCAB
Nature and the universe
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UNIT 37 · GRAMMAR
-ing and infinitive
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UNIT 38 · GRAMMAR
Both, either, neither, so, nor
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UNIT 39 · VOCAB
Laughing and crying
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UNIT 40 · GRAMMAR
Connectives
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UNIT 41 · GRAMMAR
The causative
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UNIT 42 · VOCAB
Problems and solutions
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UNIT 4 · Destination B1 · Grammar
Present Perfect Simple & Continuous“I have done / I have been doing” – 47 interactive questions
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Destination B1 – Grammar & Vocabulary
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📖 Grammar Reference – Present Perfect Simple & Continuous
Study the notes, then work through the exercises for this unit.
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What you’ll learnPresent perfect simple vs continuous + for / since / already / yet
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~20 min4-Tier notes + 7 exercises (A–G)
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53 questionsInstant automated feedback
1 Tier 1 – The Concept & Nuance: Finished Results vs Ongoing Duration
The present perfect bridges the past and the present. Use the simple form to focus on completed results or life experiences, and the continuous form to emphasize duration and ongoing activity.
🏆 Present Perfect Simple (have + done)
+ I / you / we / they have eaten · he has eaten
– I haven’t eaten · he hasn’t eaten
? Have you eaten? · Has she eaten?
– Life experience: “Have you ever visited Rome?”
– Result now: “I’ve lost my keys (I can’t get in now).”
– Quantity / how many: “She has written three emails today.”
– Signals: ever, never, just, already, yet, so far.
– Result now: “I’ve lost my keys (I can’t get in now).”
– Quantity / how many: “She has written three emails today.”
– Signals: ever, never, just, already, yet, so far.
⏳ Present Perfect Continuous (have been doing)
+ I have been reading · she has been reading
– I haven’t been reading
? How long have you been studying?
– Ongoing activity & duration: “It has been raining for two hours.”
– Recent activity with visible evidence: “His hands are dirty because he has been fixing his bike.”
– Signals: how long, for, since, all day, lately.
– Recent activity with visible evidence: “His hands are dirty because he has been fixing his bike.”
– Signals: how long, for, since, all day, lately.
2 Tier 2 – For vs Since & Been to vs Gone to
⚖️ Key Contrasts
| FOR + period | Duration of time: for 3 years, for two hours, for a long time. |
| SINCE + point | Starting moment: since 2020, since 8 AM, since Monday, since I was young. |
| been to vs gone to | has been to = visited and returned. has gone to = went there and is still there now. |
3 Tier 3 – Top 3 Common Learner Pitfalls
✗ I know him since three years.
✓ I have known him for three years.
– Rule: Use present perfect with for/since to connect past to now, and use for with duration.
✗ I have seen him yesterday.
✓ I saw him yesterday.
– Rule: Definite past time markers (yesterday, in 2019, ago) require past simple, never present perfect.
✗ She is in Spain; she has been to Madrid.
✓ She is in Spain; she has gone to Madrid.
– Rule: Has gone to means the person is currently still away at the destination.
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Tier 4 – Interactive Practice: Complete Exercises A–G below to sharpen your present perfect simple and continuous accuracy!
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Practice material based on the Destination B1 Grammar & Vocabulary syllabus (Macmillan). Interactive version by All English 4U.