Unit 5

Topic: Days, months, season, weather, time

Language: 1. The Present Continuous Tense

2. The construction to be going to do smth.

3. Impersonal Sentences

4. Numerals

5. Adjectives. Degrees of comparison

Text: The seasons and the weather

1. Language

1. Sentence Patterns

Key examples to be memorized

I am reading a book

He is reading a book

Are you reading a book?

Illustrative Examples

He is working at his invention.

Is he working at his invention?

Yes, he is. No, he is not.

Is he working or studying?

He is working.

What is he doing?

He is working at his invention.

What invention is he working at?

He is working at the development of a new device.

Where is he working at his invention?

He is working at his invention at the scientific research institute.

2. Grammar

The Present Continuous (Progressive) Tense

to be + Participle I

Дія в процесі, відбувається в момент мовлення

Affirmative (+)	Negative (-)	Interrogative (?)
I am reading a book He is writing a letter She is working We are speaking You are listening to the teacher They are working	I am not reading a book He is not writing a letter She is not working We are not speaking You are not listening to the teacher They are not working	Am I reading a book? Is he writing a letter? Is she working? Are we speaking? Are you listening to the teacher? Are they working?

The Present Continuous and the Present Indefinite.

Дієслова, що не вживаються в формі Continuous

розумова

діяльність:

to know, to believe, to suppose, to recognize, to remember, to

understand

відчуття:

to see, to hear, to smell

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Вживання the Present Indefinite та the Present Continuous
The Present Continuous ( вираження дії, яка відбувається в момент мовлення - now, at the present, at moment )	The Present Indefinite ( вираження дії, яка відбувається постійно – often, seldom, always, sometimes, usually, never )
1. The wind is blowing hard now. Shut the window, please. 2. I can’t understand him. What language is he speaking? 3. We are not writing a letter now.	1. Strong wind often blows here in winter. 2. What language do they speak in Switzerland? 3. I do not go to the library on Sundays.

Exercise 1. Open the brackets using the verbs in the Present Continuous.

1. The boy (to run) about in the garden. 2. John and his friends (to go) to the library. 3. Ann (to sit) at her desk. She (to study) English. 4. A young man (to stand) at the window. 5. The old man (to walk) about the room. 6. You (to have) breakfast. 7. Who (to sit) on the sofa? 8. What the (to talk) about? 9. It still (to rain).

Exercise 2. Open the brackets using the verbs in the Present Indefinite or the Present Continuous.

1. I (not to drink) cofee now. I (to write) a letter. 2. I (not to drink) coffee in the evening. I (to drink) coffee in the morning. 3. Your friend (to do) his homework now? 4. Look! The baby (to sleep). 5. The baby (to sleep) usually after dinner. 6. My grandmother (not to work). She is on pension. 7. My father (not to sleep) now. He (to work) in the garden. 8. I usually (to get up) at seven o’clock. 9. What your sister (to do) now? She (to cook) dinner in the kitchen. 10. Where your mother (to be)? She (to read) a book. 11. Hello! Where you (to go)? – I (to hurry) to the Institute.