Present Continuous

36. Fill in the gaps with correct form of the verb to be. Ask questions, give negative answers.

    1. Peter … writing 2. John … reading 3. The children … talking 4. The team … is discussing 5. We … learning the irregular verbs

    now.

    6. Helen … playing tennis 7. The teenagers … playing football 8. Melanie … walking home 9. You … doing the exercise 10. I … listening to my friend

    now.

37. Fill in the gaps with the correct forms of the verbs. Ask questions and give negative answers to every second sentence in the group.

1. Usually he … shirts. – Now he … … a sweater. (wear) 2. She often … the piano. – She … … the piano now. (play) 3. They … to the University every weekday. – They … … to the University right now. (go) 4. You seldom … your grandma. – You … … your grandma now. (visit) 5. The team sometimes … football. – The team … … football now. (play) 6. I usually … a book in the afternoon. – Now I … … a book. (read) 7. Kate … a letter to her mother every week. – Kate … … the letter now. (write) 8. Tom and Pam … every day. – Tom and Pam … … now. (cook) 9. Mary … food in the local supermarket. – Mary … … food now. (buy) 10. Peter … breakfast at six. – Peter … … breakfast now. (have)

38. Ask your partner what he or she usually wears. Tell us what a person next to you is wearing right now?

T-short shirt shorts jeans (skinny/flare) trousers blouse skirt dress

waistcoat jacket suit trench coat coat cardigan sweater hoodie

sandals kitten heels high heels shoes sneakers boots wellingtons

watch (sun)glasses necklace bracelet ear-rings brooch scarf belt

Attention! The following verbs are not used in Continuous:

1. Abstract Verbs (to be, to want, to seem, to need, to cost, to contain…)

2. Mental and Emotional State (to think, to believe, to know, to understand, to like, to hate…)

3. Sense (to see, to hear, to smell, to sound, to taste…)

4. Possession (to have, to belong, to own, to possess…)

* to have: He has a dog. – He is having breakfast now. * to think: I think it is wrong. – Keep silent! I am thinking. * to be: He is a doctor. – He is being funny. (temporary characteristic) * to feel: How are you feeling?

39. Fill in the gaps with either Present Simple forms of the verbs or Present Continuous.

1. Every day Mary … (visit) his parents. 2. At the moment he … (write) the letter. Don’t disturb him! 3. John usually … (buy) new clothes during the sales season. 4. Her parents often … (call) her in the evening. 5. Now he … (talk) to the client. 6. They … (play) football at the moment. 7. This month he … (study) in Italy. 8. She … (study) at University. 9. The cat … (sleep) during the day. 10. Birds … (fly) to the south in autumn. 11. Ladies and gentlemen, we … (fly) over the Atlantic right now. 12. Emily … (sleep). I’ll tell her that you’ve come. 13. Susan … (play) the violin better than Mary. 14. Kate … (have) dinner now. 15. The team … (think). Keep silent! 16. Matt … (think) that he is the best at math. 17. She … (have) a dog and two cats. 18. The children … (draw) now. Then they’ll go for a walk. 19. He … (look) tired. 20. I am surprised. John … (be) very rude.

40. Look at the picture. Describe what everybody is doing.

41. Imagine that you are far away from here and describe what you are doing in your dreams.

42. Fill in the gaps with either Present Simple or Present Continuous. Translate into Russian.

1. We … (know) the UK … (not usually have) very cold weather, but it's very cold at the moment. It … (snow) and the temperature is -8°C. People … (stay) at home.

2. It's usually cold in February and it … (rain) a lot, but today the sun … (shine) and it's a very warm 22°C. People … (wear) their summer clothes and they … (not carry) umbrellas as they usually … (do).

3. I … (think) spring in the UK is very beautiful. People usually … (wear) sweaters and jackets.

4. It often … (rain) in summer in the UK and sometimes it's quite cold. But occasionally they … (have) very hot weather with temperatures above 30°C. Today isn't one of those days. It … (rain) and everyone … (wear) raincoats.

5. In the autumn it … (get) dark at 6 p.m. but in summer it … (not get) dark until 10 p.m.

43. Describe the weather in your region.

44. Translate the text into Russian.

1. Einstein explained that when two objects are moving at a constant speed as the relative motion between the two objects. 2. If you and some astronaut, Amber, are moving in different spaceships and want to compare your observations, all that matters is how fast you and Amber are moving with respect to each other. 3. Special relativity includes only the special case where the motion is uniform. 4. The motion it explains is only if you are traveling in a straight line at a constant speed. 5. Einstein’s theory of special relativity created a fundamental link between space and time – the forth space dimension – the space-time continuum. 6. If you are moving fast enough through space, the observations that you are making about space and time differ from the observations of other people, who are moving at different speeds. 7. Imagine that you’re on a spaceship and you are holding a laser so it shoots a beam of light up, strikes a mirror on the ceiling and the light comes back down and strikes a detector. 8. However, the spaceship is traveling at a constant speed of half the speed of light. 9. Imagine that astronaut Amber is spying on you. 10. Then he sees that the beam of light is not traveling up and down but along a diagonal path. 11. Thus, the paths of the light, their lengths and the time are different for you and Amber. This phenomenon is known as time dilation, where the time on a ship moving very quickly appears to pass slower than on Earth.