Continuous Passive

Present	Past	Future
is/am/are + being + Ved (V3)	was/were + being + Ved (V3)	—————————
Letters are being sent now. — Письма отправляют сейчас.	Letters were being sent at 5 yesterday. — Письма вчера отправляли в 5 часов.	—————————

1. Find a subject and a predicate. Define time and voice of a predicate. Translate

1. The Leningrad metro was being constructed when the Great Patriotic war broke up. 2. They were being taught drawing at that lesson. 3. He is being interrupted the third time during his speech. 4. Some new metro stations are being built in Moscow now. 5. Our plan is being considered by the members of the committee. 6. What about his new novel? – It is being translated into French.

2. Make these sentences negative and interrogative

1. This text is being translated now. 2. The websites are being visited by thousands of people. 3. The question was being discussed yesterday at 9. 4. He knew he was being followed. 5. The film is still being shown. 6. I am afraid we are being waited for.

3. Answer the questions

1. Is the article still being translated?

2. What film was being shown when you come?

3. Is the picture being painted?

4. Where was he being waited for?

5. Who is being laughed at?

4. Make sentences and translate

We You The friends Everything Something The book The question The plan The children

Is being Are being Was being Were being

followed. watched. waited for. looked for. laughed at. discussed. listened to. taken care of. written. settled. changed.

5. Remake the sentences into Passive form

1. They are repairing the clock now. 2. They were selling milk in this shop. 2. I was translating the whole text. 3. We are doing the work in the evening. 4. They were playing tennis from four till five. 5. At twelve o'clock the workers were loading the trucks. 6. They are showing this film on TV. 7. They are building a new concert-hall in our street. 8. We were looking at the man with great surprise. 9. The secretary is typing the letters now. 10. They were selling new children's books in that shop when I entered it yesterday. 11. They are translating this article now. 12. They are selling delicious fruit ice cream there now. 13. All the passengers in the bus were listening to the story of the boy.

6. Translate from Russian into English

1. На этот вопрос ответят сегодня в 8 часов утра. 2. В футбол вчера вечером играли все студенты очного отделения нашего железнодорожного техникума. 3. Сегодня в 3 часа состоится собрание студентов общежития. 4. Сейчас его ждут в приемной директора. 5. Сейчас эту контрольную выполняют студенты отделения «Строительство железных дорог, путь и путевое хозяйство».

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Grammar topic: PERFECT PASSIVE.

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