1. Compare agricultural development in Great Britain and in your country.

2. Explain the difference between Belarusian agriculture and British one.

3. What kind of experience can we take out of British agriculture?

(C) Exercise 10. Suppose you are taking part in the student’s scientific conference. Speak on the following problems:

• 10 Prevailing Pros and Cons of Organic Farming.

• Problems of Agriculture and Their Solutions.

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Continuous tenses (active, passive)

(A) Exercise 1. Give 3 forms of the following verbs:

to use, to produce, to develop, to supply, to grow, to come, to go, to apply, to breed, to choose.

(А) Exercise 2. Put the verbs from Exercise 1 into active and passive forms using the model.

Model: to grow

	Active	Passive
Simple (Indefinite) Participle I	growing	being grown

(А) Exercise 3. a) Match each sentence with its tense. b) Make these sentences negative. c) Make these sentences into questions. Remember the word order for making questions.

1.We were translating the article the whole evening yesterday.	Present Continuous (Passive)
2.The student is preparing an agricultural report at the moment.	Future Continuous (Active)
3.A modern library is being built in my street now.	Past Continuous (Active)
4.The work was being done when the engineer came.	Past Continuous (Passive)
5.The students will be taking their exam at 8 o’clock a.m.	Present Continuous (Active)

(А) Exercise 4. What is the difference in meaning between the following pairs of sentences?

Alec and Mary are Scottish. They come from Glasgow. They’ll be here very soon. They are coming by car.

This room is usually used for big meetings. But today it is being used for a party.

He listened to the news on the radio when the phone rang. He was listening to the news on the radio when the phone rang.

I was reading a book during the flight. I watched a film during the flight.

(А) Exercise 5. Respond to the following statements using Continuous Tenses and “still”.

Model: a) - I know he was working on his report the whole last week.

- He is still working on it.

Model: b) - I know organic fertilizers were being applied from 8 till 9 a.m.

- They are still being applied.

1. I know he was teaching technology of metals when you graduated from the University.

2. I know this plant was producing a new model of lorries when you began to work there.

3. I know the new model of a tractor is being demonstrated now.

4. I know this process was being mechanized.

5. I know the farmer was delivering raw materials to the plant (завод) when you worked with him.

(А) Exercise 6. Choose adverbial modifiers of time suitable for Continuous Tenses.

1. We were not watching TV … he was preparing for his exams. (while, nowadays, sometimes, ago).

2. A new farm is being built in our village … (yesterday at 2 o’clock, the whole day, at the moment, every month).

3. Is a farmer growing vegetables on this field … ? (every year, at present, from morning till night, all last year).

4. … we came to the farm the poultry were being given feeds. (from 5 till 6 p.m., when, tomorrow, while).

5. Prof. Smirnov will be giving a lecture on physics … (next Thursday, at 10 a.m. next Thursday, tomorrow, next month).

6. Are the cattle … being fed? (while, still, ago, when you came)

(А) Exercise 7. Ask again about the action and give a negative answer. Remember the word order for making questions.

Active: Model a) When I came to the farm our scientists were testing a new model of a combine

• Were your scientists testing a new model of a combine when you came to the farm?

• Our scientists were not testing a new model of a combine when I came to the farm.

Passive: Model b) Grain crops were being cultivated in the field when the rain started.

• Were grain crops being cultivated in the field when the rain started?

• Grain crops were not being cultivated in the field when the rain started.

1. They were designing the new equipment when we visited their laboratory.

2. A new problem is being discussed now.

3. She will be working on our farm from 9 till 11 a.m.

4. A difficult experiment was being prepared the whole day yesterday.

5. The farmers were applying organic fertilizers when the students arrived at the farm.

(А) Exercise 8. Make the sentences passive. Follow the Model.

Model: Agronomists are improving crop quality and yields. (Active)

Crop quality and yields are being improved by agronomists. (Passive)

Soil scientists were making soil tests from 9 till 11.

A tractor-driver is making a seedbed now.

3. The farmer will be eliminating weeds all day tomorrow.

4. Engineers are designing a new model of a plow.

5. Belarusian scientists were improving potato varieties at that time.

(А) Exercise 9. Make the sentence active and then passive. Use the adverbs in brackets.

The farmer (plough) his fields (at present, every day, last spring, when the rain started, tomorrow at this time, next autumn).

(А) Exercise 10. Ten of the verbs in the box are not usually used in the Present Continuous. Choose them.

design; understand; see (видеть); grow; consist; want; remember; use; know; believe; plow; discuss; belong; till; provide; have; turn over; suppose; make

(А) Exercise 11. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense, active or passive.

1. Right now the tractor-drivers (are plowing; plow; will be plowing) the field near the village.

2. Fertilizers (are having; have; were having) a great effect on crop yields.

3. The problem of cultivating the soil (was discussing; was being discussed; discussed) at 7 p.m. yesterday.

4. They (see; will see; will be seeing) the results of farm mechanization in a year.

5. Some progress (is making; makes; is being made) in machine building at present.

6. This intricate agricultural machinery (not belong; doesn’t belong; isn’t belonging) to our farm.

(B) Exercise 12. Make sentences from the chart. Translate your sentences into Russian.

The students	are	still	being	cooperating with some leading farms	nowadays.
Every agricultural college	will			waiting for you	after the classes at the canteen.
Those engineers	were		be	shown a number of crops	the whole day yesterday.
I	is			testing new motors	when the dean came into the lecture-room.
Vegetables	am			grown on this field