1. Put the verbs in the Past Perfect ContinuousTense.

1. All the roads were blocked: it __________________ (snow) all night long. 2. I was tired. I____________________ (work) all day long. 3. After I _________________ (walk) for an hour, I decided to have a rest. 4. She fell ill because she___________________ (work) hard for 3 hours. 5. Mary could see that the child ____________________ (cry) for some time. 6. Jim said that he ___________________ (write) all day. 7. I knew they ___________________ (correspond) for years.

2. Put the verbs in the Past Indefinite Tense, the Past Continuous Tense, the Past Perfect Tense or the Past Perfect Continuous Tense.

1. We were good friends. We _______________ (know) each other for a long time. 2. It was very noisy next door. Our neighbours ________________________ (have) a party. 3. John and I went for a walk. I had difficulty keeping up with him because he ___________________ (walk) so fast. 4. When I arrived, everybody was sitting round the table with their mouth full. They ________________ (eat). 5. Mary was sitting on the ground. She was out of breath. She _______________ (run). 6. When I arrived, Kate ______________ (wait) for me. She was rather annoyed with me because I was late and she __________________ (wait) for a very long time. 7. I was sad when I sold my car. I __________________ (had) it for a very long time. 8. We were extremely tired at the end of the journey. We ___________________ (travel) for more than 24 hours.

3. Translate the sentences into Russian.

1. I took a firmer grasp of Helen’s hand which I had been holding under the table for the last hour.

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2. For the last five minutes he had been shouting at me to hurry.

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3. I could not believe that he had been sitting beside me all this time.

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4. Silvia had been talking to him – persuading him to agree to a course of treatment, and he said he would.

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5. He threw the letter he had been reading for 15 minutes on to the table and turned to me.

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6. He sat down and pulled on a pair of thick woolen overstocks Ginny had been warming by the stove since morning.

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4. Translate the following sentences into English.

1. Сколько времени вы катались на велосипедах, прежде чем пошел дождь?

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2. До того, как секретарь пригласила меня войти, я ждала минут двадцать.

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3. Дождь шел уже больше часа, как вдруг раздался удар грома.

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4. Ребятам было очень жарко, с самого утра они играли в футбол.

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5. Сколько времени она брала уроки английского, прежде чем поступила в университет?

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6. Она долго обдумывала, что ей делать, и только потом поняла, что делать-то было нечего.

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7. Я так давно надеялась получить у него автограф, но он так и не приехал в наш город.

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