2.20.Answer the following questions.

1.Are you preparing for the test now?

2.Is your mother working at the moment?

3.What is your best friend doing?

4.Are your group-mates having English now?

5.What are you doing next weekend?

6.What are you doing at the moment?

7.Is your father reading a newspaper now?

8.Is anybody listening to you now?

9.Are your parents planning to spend a holiday in Thailand?

10.What are you wearing at the moment?

Present Simple Tense – Present Progressive Tense

2.21.Choose the correct variant.

1.We often borrow / are borrowing English films from the video club.

2.‘What’s that music?’ ‘My brother listen / is listening to his new CD of gothic music.’

3.British people are eating / eat a lot of Indian food.

4.Don’t make noise. My room-mates sleep / are sleeping after a hard day at the university.

5.‘Is John in?’ ‘No, he isn’t. He is helping / helps in the Greenfield café. He usually works / is working there in summer.’

6.Do you wear / Are you wearing a uniform at your school?

7.Mary isn’t playing / doesn’t play tennis very well today.

8.Look at Alex in this photo. He wears / is wearing a very smart suit.

9.I don’t need an umbrella. It doesn’t rain / isn’t raining at the moment.

10.A lot of British students go / are going to Spain on holidays.

2.22.Complete the following sentences with the present simple or present progressive form of the verb, as in the model.

Model: – Martin … (not / usually / drive) to work.

–Martin does not usually drive to work.

–I … (have / lunch) with my parents at the moment.

–I am having lunch with my parents at the moment.

1.‘Where is Andrew?’ ‘I … (not / know).’

2.Sally is tired. She … to go home now. (want)

3.What time … your homework? (you / do)

6.Look! Those people … French. (speak) They are probably from France.

7.How often … fashion magazines? (you / read)

8.What is funny? What … at? (they / laugh)

9.Rick is a good student. Every Saturday he … (go) to the library.

10.‘What game …’? (those students / play) ‘They are playing baseball.’

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2.23.Read the following sentences and decide if the verb refers to the present or the future.

1.I am leaving tomorrow to spend Christmas with Mary’s family.

2.The doctor is feeling her pulse.

3.We are having a party next Saturday. Would you like to come?

4.Listen! Ann is singing in the next room.

5.Kate, we are going to the town center. Are you coming with us?

6.I am not going away for my holidays next month because I haven’t got enough money.

7.‘What are you doing?’ ‘I am writing a letter to my sister.’

8.Look! The bus is coming.

9.‘Where are Jack and Sally?’ ‘I don’t know. I think they are buying a new house.’

10.‘When are you meeting your parents?’ ‘They are coming tomorrow morning.’

Conditional I

Table 2.4

Conditional I

If you study hard, you will pass your exams.

If he studies hard, he will not (won’t) fail the test.

If you don’t study hard, you will not (won’t) pass your exams.

If he doesn’t study hard, he will fail the test.

2.24. Choose the correct variant.

1.If Mark … the boat, we … fishing.

2.When you … home, I … you the letter.

3.If she … me, I … her news.

4.When Barbara … the door, we … Happy Birthday.

5.If you … me about your problems, I… you to solve some of them.

Table 2.5

Past Simple Tense: statements, questions and negative forms

2.25. Complete the following sentences with the past simple form of the verb, as in the model.

Model: – Thomas … a new computer two days ago. (buy)

–Thomas bought a new computer two days ago.

1.I … an e-mail to Mary and she … me back immediately. (send; write)

2.Last summer Terry … to France. (travel)

3.My father … the university twenty years ago. (graduate from)

4.I always drive to work but yesterday I … a bus. (take)

5.We … a great show last night. (see)

6.Henry … late yesterday so he … Geometry. (be; miss)

7.Yesterday Sue … a package from Tom. (receive)

8.Three years ago I … swimming with my friends. (go)

9.When I … in Italy, I … in a luxury hotel. (be; stay)

10.Kelly … her project a week ago. (finish)

2.26.Make the following sentences negative, as in the model.

Model: – She answered the first question. (the second question)

–She didn’t answer the second question.

1.Peter had dinner with Dorothy. (Fiona)

2.We knew her address. (phone number)

3.I bought some flowers. (chocolates)

4.They spoke Spanish. (English)

5.Lora wrote a letter to Jeremy. (Chris)

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6.Fred felt well last night. (yesterday morning)

7.Our group travelled to London. (Oxford)

8.I visited my parents on Friday. (on Sunday)

9.You saw Mr. Little at the university. (Mrs. Swanack)

10.Jack sent an e-mail to his brother. (sister)

2.27.Write the correct question for the following sentences, as in the model.

Model: – I watched TV last night. (When)

–When did you watch TV?

1.Joe went to bed at 10.30 yesterday evening. (What time)

2.I had a nice holiday in Rome. (Who)

3.Susan bought a fashion magazine yesterday. (What)

4.It wasn’t warm in the room so the teacher closed the window. (Why)

5.Helen received grant for her research work two weeks ago. (What)

6.Lora played tennis with her group-mates an hour ago. (Who)

7.I took a shower because it was hot. (Why)

8.The computer cost two thousand dollars. (How much)

9.The lecture began at 9.00 o’clock yesterday. (When)

10.She took an interesting book from the library. (What)

2.28.Answer the following questions.

1.When did you enter the university?

2.What time did you get up today?

3.Did you study English at school?

4.Where did you go last summer?

5.How many lessons did you have yesterday?

6.Did you visit you parents last weekend?

7.How did you get to the university yesterday?

8.Why did you enter the university?

9.Who did you last go to the cinema with?

10.Did you have breakfast an hour ago?

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