Grammar in use Continuous Active Tenses

Граматичні часи групи Continuous позначають дії, що відбуваються в точно зазначений час або водночас з іншими діями. Додатковими характериcтиками таких дій є їх незакінченість, динамічноcть і наочніcть. Дієслова у всіх часових формах цієї групи складаються з допоміжного дієслова «to be» в відповідній особовій формі та cмиcлового дієслова з -ing.

PRESENT	PAST	FUTURE
am is + V ing are	was were + V ing	will be + V ing
Now, at the moment, at present, this minute, still	At 6 o'clock yesterday, when the doctor came, while	At 5 next Monday, when she arrives
The doctor is examining the patient now.	The doctor was examining a patient, when the nurse entered the ward.	Tomorrow at 9 a.m. the nurse I'll be taking my gastric juice for testing.

ЗАПОМ'ЯТАЙТЕ - дієслова, що виражають почуття, сприйняття і розумові стани не вживаються в часах групи Continuous: to love любити, to like подобатися, to hate ненавидіти, to want хотіти, to wish, to desire бажати, to see бачити, to hear чути, to feel відчувати, to notice помічати, to know знати, to understand розуміти, to remember пам'ятати, to forget забувати, to believe вірити, to recognize дізнаватися, to seem, to appear здаватися, to possess володіти, to contain містити, to consist складатися і деякі інші.

Exercise 10. Put the verbs in the appropriate form. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian.

1. “What (to be) you doing now?” - “I (to be) preparing for my credit test in Physics.”

2. Yesterday from 2 till 6 o'clock we (to be) working at our scientific laboratory.

3. When I was at my sister's at 4 p.m. yesterday she (to be) learning Latin.

4. Tomorrow at 5 p.m. I (to be) preparing a lecture.

5. We (to take) the examination at ten o'clock yesterday.

6. They (not to carry out) an experiment at the moment.

7. While rector (to make) his speech all students (to listen) to him with great attention.

8. Tomorrow I (to write) my article for conference when you come.

Exercise 11. Translate sentences into English.

1. Зараз черговий лікар оглядає пацієнта у палаті.

2. Вчора в цей час наша група відвідувала анатомічний театр.

3. Викладач екзаменує студента в цей час.

4. Вони не проводимуть експерименти у вівторок о третій годині.

5. Я готувалася до іспиту з физиології, коли викладач зайшов до аудиторії.

6. В данний час я йду на курси для медсестер.

7. В цей час наступного понеділка ми будемо представляти нові ліки на щорічній конференції.

8. Вона буде здавати кров на аналіз завтра о дев'ятій годині.

Evercise 12. Underline the correct form of the verb.

1. Victor is working/works in the pathology lad at the City Hospital.

2. What do you usually do/are you usually doing in case of flu?

3. While my mother was calling in a doctor, my brother cries/was crying.

4. He is testing/tests blood to look for bacteria and parasites.

5. Most day she is analysing/analyses samples and is carrying/carries out tests on blood.

6. Usually he enjoys/is enjoying his work even though sometimes he works/is working night shifts and weekends.

7. He is also counting/counts blood cells and is matching/matches blood for transfusions.

8. Today Victor is examining/examines body fluids under the microskope.

Exercise 13. Put questions to the underlined words.

1. Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.

2. Alexander Fleming made a brilliant career at St Mary's Hospital.

3. In 1928 he discovered penicillin.

4. Florey and Chain reinvestigated its properties and preparation.

5. Fleming received many British and foreign honours in recognition of his discoveries.

6. He was twice married.

7. Alexander Fleming died suddenly on March 11th in 1955.

8. Не was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.

Exercise 14. Open the brackets using the verbs in the appropriate form. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian.

In 1941, a doctor, Charles Fletcher, at a hospital in Oxford (to hear) of Howard Florey and Ernst Chain's work. He (to have) a patient who (to be) near to death as a result of bacteria getting into a wound. Fletcher (to use) some of Chain’s and Florey’s penicillin on the patient and the wound (to make) a spectacular recovery. Unfortunately, Fletcher did not have enough penicillin to fully rid the patient’s body of bacteria and he (to die) a few weeks later as the bacteria took a hold. However, penicillin (to show) what it could do. The only reason the patient did not survive was because they did not have enough of the drug - not that it did not work.

Florey (to get) an American drugs company to mass produce it and by June 6th 1944, enough (to be available) to treat all the bacterial infections that broke out among the troops. Penicillin got nicknamed "the wonder drug".