V. Ask your fellow-student

1. - if he (she) has been studying English for 7 years;

2. - if he(she) has been living in Gomel since his childhood;

3. - if he(she) has been studying at the Gomel Medical University for two years;

4. - if he (she) has been working at the hospital for three years;

5. - if he (she) has been sterilizing syringes for an hour;

6. - what he (she) had been doing since morning before he (she) came to the University;

7. - if he (she) had been walking in the park for a long time when you met him (her) there;

8. - what he (she) had been discussing for 10 minutes before we entered the room;

9. - if he (she) had been playing chess or the guitar for a little while before you called on him (her);

10. - if he (she) had been reading since early morning before his (her) mother prepared breakfast.

VI. Combine the sentences, using the Present Perfect Continuous Tense

Model A:

They began to close the wound in layers ten minutes ago. They are still working.

They have been closing the wound in layers for ten minutes.

Model B:

He has begun to treat this patient for lobar pneumonia since Monday. He is still treating him.

He has been treating this patient for lobar pneumonia since Monday.

1. The doctor has begun to consult his patients since morning. He is still consulting them.

2. The doctor began to operate on this patient an hour ago. He is still operating on him.

3. The nurse began to apply a plaster of Paris ten minutes ago. She is still applying it.

4. He began to remove the appendix twenty minutes ago. He is still removing it.

5. This patient has begun to complain of earache since early morning. He is still complaining of it.

VII. Combine the sentences, using the Past Perfect Continuous Tense.

Model:

The doctor operated on the patient (an hour). Then he finished the operation. – The doctor had been operating on the patient for about an hour before he finished the operation.

1. Tom gargled his throat (5 minutes). Then he left the bath-room.

2. The nurse rubbed in the healing ointment (3 minutes). Then the doctor came.

3. Dr. Orlov examined the child (5 minutes): Then he started to cry.

4. Nick suffered from headache (a short time). Then he lost his consciousness.

5. The nurse sterilized surgical instruments (an hour). Then the surgeon began the operation.

VIII. Put the sentences into the Perfect Continuous Tenses, using the necessary adverbial modifiers of time

Model 1:	I am waiting for you. (since 8 o’clock) I have been waiting for you since 8 o’clock.
Model 2:	I was working when my brother came in. (for a long time). I had been working for a long time when my brother came in.
Model 3:	He lives in this town. (since 1980) He has been living in this town since 1980.

1. They were sleeping when we returned (for two hours).

2. She is operating on this patient for the appendicitis (since 9 o’clock).

3. He teaches Biology (since 1994).

4. His sister was moaning with pain when the doctor came (for a long time).

5. The doctor is applying a tourniquet to the patient’s arm (for two minutes).

6. I study at the Medical University (for two years).

7. It was raining when I left home (for three hours).

8. I am suffering of nausea (since early morning).

9. Professor Belov is delivering a lecture in Histology (for an hour).

10. My friend was attending post-graduate courses when I met him. (for a year).