Put the verbs in brackets in the Present Perfect Continuous tense. 1. I can’t stand it any more

1. I can’t stand it any more. Those people (quarrel) since breakfast.

2. Dora is playing the piano. She (play) the piano since I came.

3. Aren’t you going to tell me what you (do) in my absence?

4. How long you (sit) here?

5. I’ll go and wash my eyes. I don’t want my husband to see I (cry).

6. The amount of crime (increase) for the last ten years and we can’t stop this process.

7. I think it’s time to wake the baby up. It (sleep) for four hours already.

8. He had barely entered the room when the secretary said: ”Somebody (ring) for you for the last five minutes.

9. “What the children (do)? ” – “They (play) games all morning and now they (learn) to tell time by the position of the sun.”

10. “Where is my daughter? ” – “She (talk) to a policeman.” – “What’s happened? ” – “She (drive) without license.”

11. “Florence, dear, I (look) for you everywhere. “ – “What’s happened? ” – “Mr Cusak (wait) for you in the house.”

12. I (attend) a swimming-pool for 5 years.

13. How long (your sister/travel)?

14. Mum is very tired. She (clean) the house all day.

Fill in the suitable word: performance, balcony, inform, handsome, doubt, industrious, regret, successful

1. I still … whether she would come. 2. The … was perfect and she enjoyed every minute of it. 3. Though my seat was in the …, I could see the stage very well. 4. Her sister was an … worker. 5. He will … telling a lie. 6. You must.. the post- office of the change of your address. 7. Her … face seemed to be bothered by something. 8. It was a … project.

3. Give a short description of your friend according to the model:

She is rather short but so slim and graceful that she seems taller than she is. She has shapely legs and arms and her hands are beautiful. Her hair, slightly red, is curly. Her face is oval, her eyes are brown, but when she is angry they seem black. Her complexion is fresh, her mouth is full, her lips — red. She is lovely.

4. Translate into Russian:

An old Mrs. Meadows sits there and smiles to herself! All she says is that he was very good-looking, but not so steady as his brother Tom! ” Mrs. George invited me to look in and see the old man. I accepted the invitation with joy, as I knew the story of Uncle George Meadows and it a m u s e d me because it was like an old ballad. It was touching to come across such a story in real life. More than fifty years ago, when Mrs. Meadows was Emily Green, a young charming girl, George and his younger brother Tom both courted her. When Emily married Tom, George had g o n e to sea. For twenty years he sent them presents n o w a n d th e n; then there was no more news of him. After her husband's death Emily wrote George about it, but never received an answer, And the previous day, to their greatest surprise they received his letter, in which he wrote that he was crippled with rheumatism and feeling he had not much longer to live, wanted to return to the house in which he was born. W hen I came the whole family was assembled in the kitchen. I was amused to see that Mrs. Meadows was wearing her best silk dress. On the other side of the fireplace sat an old man with a wrinkled yellow face. He was very thin and his skin hung on his bones like an old suit too large for him. Captain George, as he had called himself, told us that he had been so ill he thought he would never be able to get back, but the look of his old home had done him a lot of good.

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