Self-training Exercises

Exercise 1. Answer the following questions.

1. Are you reading or writing now? 2. Are you making progress in your English? 3. Is your friend listening to you now? 4. Is it snowing now? 5. Where are you going to spend your winter holidays? 6. What were the students doing in the laboratory so late yesterday? 7. Were you

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having a rest when I rang you up? 8. Was she wearing black at the par­ty? 9. At what time were your friends waiting for you at the station? 10. Where was he hurrying at 8 o’clock in the morning? 11. What were the students translating when the teacher came? 12. Whom were you speaking with when I came up to you? 13. Will the students be having a meeting after the lectures? 14. What will you be doing after the meeting? 15. Will you be taking any examination this month?

Exercise 2. Put the verb in brackets into the Present, Past or Future Progressive Tense.

1. He (to take) a bath now. 2. I (not to laugh) at you. 3. He (to come) here next week. 4. If I (to sleep) when he comes, please, wake me up. 5. What journal you (to read) when I came to the library? 6. The whole family (to have) dinner when the telephone rang. 7. Where he (to go) when the rain started? 8. She (to sing) over the radio at 5 o’clock tomorrow. 9. They will not go on excursion with us. They (to have) a lecture at 2 o’clock. 10. What you (to do) from 2 till 3 o’clock tomorrow? 11. The children (to play) when we return home. 12. Look! It is getting dark. It (to rain) in a minute.

Exercise 3. Form questions with the question words given.

1. The expedition is returning next week. (When) 2. We are doing grammar Exercise s now. (What) 3. The mother is teaching her little son to read. (Who) 4. I am reading a book on modern art. (What) 5. They were still arguing when I entered the room. (Who) 6. Our group was staying in Vitebsk for some days. (For how long) 7. We were talking and he was listening to the radio. (What) 8. They will be moving to a new flat this month. (When) 9. We shall be listening to Petrov at the concert. (When) 10. He is coming tomorrow. (When)

Exercise 4. Translate into English.

1. Что вы обсуждаете? — Мы обсуждаем план будущей экскур­сии. 2. Вы идете в кино с нами? 3. О чем вы сейчас думаете? 4. Ав­тобус уже отправлялся, когда я подошел к остановке. 5. Что он делал, когда вы зашли к нему? 6. Идет дождь, и мы не можем по­ехать за город. 7. Вчера в 10 часов наша группа сдавала экзамен по философии. 8. Мы будем переводить этот текст, когда ты вер­нешься. 9. Не опаздывай! Я буду ждать тебя возле кинотеатра.

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10. Весь сентябрь студенты будут работать в колхозе. 11. Какую делегацию вы будете встречать завтра?

Времена группы PERFECT to have (has, had, will have) + Participle II

	Present	Past	Future
Affirmative	I We have written Yo u They He She has written It	I We Yo u They had written He She It	I shall have written We Yo u They He will have written She It
Negative	I We have not (haven’t) Yo u written They He has not She (hasn’t) written It	I We Yo u had not They (hadn’t) written He She It	I shall not (shan’t) We have written Yo u They will not (won’t) He have written She It
Interrogative	I Have we written? you they he Has she written? it	I we you Had they written? he she it	Shall I have written? we you they Will he have written? she it

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Совершенные времена (Perfect Tenses) обозначают действие, которое совершилось к определенному моменту в настоящем, прошедшем или будущем.

Времена группы Perfect переводятся на русский язык глаго­лами совершенного вида.

Present Perfect часто употребляется с наречиями времени (already, just, yet, never, ever) и со словами, выражающими еще не истекшие периоды времени (today, this year, this month, this week, this morning и т.д.).

Present Perfect может употребляться для выражения дей­ствия, которое началось в прошлом и не закончилось к данному моменту, а все еще продолжается. Период действия обычно указывается с помощью слов for (в течение) или since (с, с тех пор как, с тех пор). В этом случае Present Perfect переводится на русский язык глаголом несовершенного вида: I have lived here since 1970. Я живу здесь с 1970 года.

Определенный момент в прошлом (Past Perfect) или буду­щем (Future Perfect) выражается обозначениями времени с предлогом by — к (by 3 o’clock yesterday, by 3 o’clock tomorrow, by the time he came (comes).