Translate into English. 1. Где вы работали сегодня в 9 часов утра?

1. Где вы работали сегодня в 9 часов утра?

2. Он с друзьями занимался английским весь день.

3. Мы смотрели телевизор, а они слушали радио.

4. Во время обеда она читала научный журнал.

5. Автобус стоял на остановке с 3 до 4, а затем уехал.

4. Add a sentence with the past continuous to say that an action lasted a long time. Model: You had to work yesterday. The work went on all day.

I was working all day.

1. You had to make phone calls. The calls went on all evening.

2. Students had to wait in the rain. The rain lasted for half an hour.

3. We had to make sandwiches. This went on all afternoon.

4. The lorry had to stay in a traffic jam. It was there for two hours.

5. Your neighbour played loud music. This went on all night.

Past Continuous or Past Simple?

Put in the correct form of the verbs in the brackets using the past continuous or past simple.

Model: When Martin arrived (arrive) home, Anna wastalking (talk) to someone on the phone. Martin started (start) to get the tea.

1. I (lie) in the bath when the phone (ring). It (stop) after a few rings.

2. It (be) cold when we (leave) the house that day, and a light snow (fall).

3. Your friend who (come) here the other day (seem) very nice. I (enjoy) meeting her.

4. When I (open) the cupboard door, a pile of books (fall) out.

5. I (walk) along the street when I suddenly (feel) something hit me in the back. I (not / know) what it was.

6.Each of these sentences has a mistake, correct them.

Model: The hotel were very quite. The hotel was very quiet. – (correct)

1. It was peaceful, and the birds were sing.

2. I washed my hair when the phone rang.

3. You came to the club last night?

4. As I was watching him, the man was suddenly running away.

5. Everything was seeming OK.

6. Where bought you that bag?

The Future Continuous (Progressive) Tense

The Future continuous образуется при помощи вспомогательного глагола to be в соответствующем будущем времени (will be) и глагола-сказуемого в форме инфинитива без частицы to с –ing окончанием.

The Future continuous употребляется:

-для выражения действия, которое будет длиться в точно указанный момент или период в будущем.

This time tomorrow I ’ll be working at home.

– Глаголы состояния (non-continuous verbs) в Future Continuous не употребляется.

POSITIVE / NEGATIVE QUESTION

часто употребляются такие обстоятельства времени как: this time tomorrow – в это время завтра; from 8 til l 9 – с 8 до 9 завтра; tomorrow at 6 o'clock – завтра в 6.

Grammar exercises