Variant 1

1. Explain the use of tenses which are underlined in the following sentences.

1. Vegetables grow well in this climate. _________________________________________________

2. I am thinking of what you have just said. _____________________________________________

3. I haven’t seen him since he left for Moscow. ___________________________________________

4. When we came to the station the train had already gone. ________________________________

5. By next August she will have been teaching English for 30 years. __________________________

2. Make your own sentences. Use the tenses which express the following:

1. general truth

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2. planned intention

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3. a completed action connected with the present

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4. exaggeration with negative attitude

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3. Open the brackets and put the verbs in the right tense form, active or passive.

1. When morning came, the storm _________________________ (already/to stop), but the snow _________________________ (still/to fall).

2. Yesterday by eight o'clock he _________________________ (to finish) all his homework, and when I ___________________ (to come) to his place at nine, he ____________________ (to read).

3. I _________________________ (to wait) for permission to go abroad for three weeks already, but I _________________________ (not/to receive) the visa yet.

4. Everybody _________________________ (to be) at the door of the museum, but my friend (not/yet/to come).

5. He _________________________ (hardly/to take) a drink himself, than Mrs Smith _________________________ (to look) in.

4. Translate the sentences into English.

1. Ты сейчас делаешь эту работу? — Да, но я только что ее начал.

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2. Ты ездил за город в эти выходные? — Нет, мы были очень заняты. Мы убирали дом.

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3. Я еще не приготовила обед. — Тебе помочь? — Да, спасибо. Гости приходят в 7.

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4. Поторопись! Представление вот-вот начнется. – Ты всегда нервничаешь по пустякам. У нас еще куча времени.

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5. Вы знаете, что в декабре мы будем писать контрольную работу?

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