1.Are you a part-time or full-time student? 2.What year are you in? 3.What classes do you have? 4.What lectures do you attend? 5.Do you ever miss lectures? 6.How many exams will you have in winter?

Grammar: Continuous Tenses
	Active		Passive
	to be + Present Participle		to be + being + Past Participle
	am		am
Present	is building		is being built
	are		are
Past	was		was
	building		being built
	were		were
Future			———
	will be building

Models: We are translating the text (переводим).

We were translating the text when the sub-dean came in (переводили).

We will be translating the text the whole lesson tomorrow (будем переводить).

The text was being translated the whole lesson yesterday (переводился / переводили).

Notes: Present Continuous is used with adverbs now, at present; with the words this week (temporary situation); to express a fixed future arrangement.

2.23 Read Ann’s e-mail and find examples of:

a) a fixed future arrangement

b) an action happening around the time of speaking

c) a timetable

d) a permanent state

e) a temporary situation

f) a habit/routine

g) an action happening now

Dear Emily,

Thanks for your e-mail. It’s always great to hear from you. As for me, I’m really busy. College life is very exciting, but there’s so much to do. I get up at 8 o’clock on weekdays because lectures start at 9:30. I spend most of my afternoons in the library as I’m taking six different courses this term and there’s lots of reading to do! At the weekend I do some part-time waitressing. So as you can see, I’m working very hard these days. But it’s not all work and no play. Tonight I’m having dinner with some classmates. I can’t wait!

I’d better finish here because Sarah, my flatmate, is calling me to come and help her. Come and visit me soon!

Ann

2.24 Put the verb into the correct form.

Examples: Please don’t make so much noise. I am studying (study).

Listen to these people. What language are they speaking (speak)?

1.Look! It … (snow). 2.Please be quiet. I … (try) to concentrate. 3.Why … (you / look) at me like that? Have I said anything wrong? 4.You … (make) a lot of noise. Can you be a bit quieter? 5.He is still ill but he … (get) better slowly. 6. The population of the world … (rise) very fast. 7.I … (not / work) this week. I’m on holiday. 8.Why … (you wear) your coat today? It’s very warm. 9.The economic situation is already very bad and is … (become) worse.

2.25 Put the verb into the correct form, Past Continuous or Past Simple.

Example: While Jane was cooking … (cook) the dinner, the phone rang (ring).

1.George … (fall) off the ladder while he … (paint) the ceiling. 2.Ann … (wait) for me when I … (arrive). 3.I … (not / drive) very fast when the accident … (happen). 4.Tom … (take) a photograph of me while I … (not / look). 5.We … (not / go) out because it … (rain). 6.What … (you / do) at this time yesterday? 7.The phone … (ring) when I … (have) a shower. 8.It … (begin) to rain when I … (walk) home.

2.26 Link the sentences. Use and, then, after that, when, before.

1.On Saturdays I meet my friends for coffee. We go to the cinema. 2.She has breakfast. She leaves for university. 3.On Sundays we have a family dinner. We watch a movie. 4.I get up. The alarm clock rings. 5.She has a shower. She gets dressed.