Think of possible questions for the given below answers.

a) No, we are not. We are walking towards the post office.

b) Yes, I am. I am right now speaking to her on the phone.

c) She is learning Spanish with a private teacher.

d) They are doing their math now.

e) No, he is not. He is looking at himself in the mirror.

f) The students are listening to the teacher.

g) The sun is shining.

h) No, it isn’t raining any longer.

14 Look at the picture and say what the students are doing now using the verbs given: to dive, to talk, to read, to play football, to have lunch, to dance.

a) b)

c) d)

e) f)

15 Complete the letter with the verbs from the box. Use the present continuous tense, positive or negative. Use short forms wherever possible, e.g. he's, not he is.

work do draw work look play listen do sit write read

Dear Maria,

Hi! How are you? Mum and Dad are working today, but I ______ on the sofa at home because there is no school today. It's boring!
My sister ______ to her stereo and she ______ pictures in her room. My brother ______ a book. I ______ anything exciting. I can't even watch TV because it ______! I ______ letters to people and I ______ my homework. Oh yes, I ______ out the window, too! I can see my dog. He ______ in the garden.

I hope you're well, Aliya.

Put the verb in brackets into Present Simple or Present Continuous.

a) ______ you (to watch) TV now?

b) They ______ (to drink) coffee in the morning.

c) Bill ______ (to stay) at the Kosmos hotel now.

d) Where ______ you (to go) at the moment?

e) I ______ (to look for) new shoes.

f) We ______ (to do) shopping on Fridays.

Take-home assignment

Describe the way from your home to the University.

Learn one of the dialogues from exercise 1.

3 Complete the sentences with the appropriate verbs from the box in the correct tense: Present Simple or Present Continuous.

want get up read wash up do run drive take tease come

a) Jim ______ at 5.00 a.m. every morning.

b) He ______ 3 kilometers before breakfast.

c) Quick, let's cross the road. That drunken man ______ this way.

d) Can you get the phone? I ______ in the kitchen.

e) My mother ______ the 8.20 bus on Mondays.

f) I ______ a great book by Stephen King!

g) My parents ______ the shopping on Saturdays.

h) John's a little worried because his parents ______ from London to Glasgow.

i) I ______ to see you. Can you come into my office?

j) I'm fed up with you! You ______ me again.

4 Read the texts about British and American cities and render them into Russian.

Looking at English cities

Birmingham, which lies in the West Midlands, is England’s second-largest city after London. It is one of England’s largest industrial centers. Birmingham produces a lot of steel and has many highly skilled engineers, making it an ideal spot for the British auto industry. Long before the auto industry arrived, Birmingham was famous for its military equipment, jewelry and other crafts.

Liverpool, located on the Mersey River, boasts one of the largest harbors in the world and a center of shipping and manufacturing. Liverpool is perhaps most famous for having produced the Beatles, the pop music group that dominated the charts in the 1960s. Today its industry is in decline, and many of its port facilities have been converted to stores and apartments.

Sheffield, England’s fourth-largest city, is located on the Don River in the north-central part of the country. Sheffield has been famous for knives and other cutting tools since the Middle Ages.

London: did you know this?

London was founded by the Romans as Londinium. It started as a village that grew up around the first wooden bridge to span the river Thames. The Romans eventually built a wall around the city, probably to protect themselves. The wall also kept the village from growing large. Today, the 1-square-mile (2.6 sq km) area within the wall is the city of London. It’s the old financial heart of the city.

Theaters, shops, restaurants, museums, hotels, and the government are amazingly close together in central London. But the crowding is broken up by major parks. Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens make up the biggest green area. Buckingham Palace is located next to Green Park and St. James’s Park. Regent’s Park contains the famed London Zoo.

Review

Сейчас вы знаете, как описать свою семью, внешность, можете рассказать о своей квартире, о доме, а также спросить дорогу и объяснить, как добраться до определенного места. «Моя семья и я» - первая экзаменационная тема. Вы должны уметь рассказывать о своей семье и о себе и отвечать на вопросы по данной теме. Все изученные темы помогут вам составить рассказ, который будет интересен и неповторим.

I Имя существительное

Вы изучили число имен существительных, запомнили исключения и особые правила образования множественного числа:

parent	parents
family	families
day	days
box	boxes
life	lives
roof	roofs
hero	heroes
datum	data
index	indexes/indices
man	men
sheep	sheep

Также вы встретили образование притяжательного падежа имен существительных. Притяжательный падеж используется для обозначения принадлежности чего-либо кому-то.

My mother’s name is Fatima Baiburina.

Образуется притяжательный падеж при помощи прибавления апострофа и окончания ’s.

Чаще всего он используется с одушевленными именами существительными (mother, father, sister, brother).

С неодушевленными лучше использовать фразу с предлогом of.

a roof of the house

II There is/are

Вы вспомнили структуру there is/are, которая используется для обозначения наличия, расположения, нахождения чего-либо где-либо.

There is a big picture in the living room.

There are many modern buildings in Ufa.

III Articles

Вы много раз встречали эту часть речи в английских предложениях. Хотя на русский язык мы не переводим артикли, они очень важны, поскольку показывают, исчисляемое или неисчисляемое имя существительное используется после них, также они служат для указания на определенность/неопределенность этого имени существительного.

Артиклей в английском языке два: неопределенный a (an) и определенный the.

- Исчисляемое имя существительное в единственном числе всегда требует перед собой какой-нибудь артикль в зависимости от того, конкретное оно или нет.

We should take a bus to go there. (любой автобус, какой-нибудь)

The 2 bus goes every 15 minutes. (конкретный, определенный автобус)

- Перед исчисляемым именем существительным во множественном числе не используется артикль вообще, если оно неопределенное, или определенный артикль, если оно определенное.

Trains are comfortable in Russia. (поезда вообще)

The Lada cars are made in Toliatti.(определенные автомобили)

- Перед неисчисляемыми именами существительными используется только определенный артикль, если они определенные; или артикль вообще не используется.

I love the music by Chopin. (определенная музыка)

I love music. (музыка вообще)