Exercise 3 Read the following words

a) Mine, side, bride, like, kite, while, white, Friday, write, nice, crime, mile, tie, exercise, slide, surprise, precise, title, silence, microchip;

b) bit, pit, picture, sincere, resist, cubic, width, fix, mixture, ill, still, different, difficult, since, simple, middle, tilt, timber, signify;

c) knight, fight, bright, tonight, mind, find, wild, sign, might, right, sight, blind, child, kind, tights;

d) third, birth, sir, bird, fir, virtual, virgin, shirt, skirt, mirth, irk, girl, firm, firth, dirty, circus, circulate, birch;

e) retire, require, shire, admire, wire, tire, sire, mire, ire, hire, dire, tiresome, entire, desire;

f) believe, brief, chief, field, grief, grievance, grieve, mischief, niece, piece, priest, siege, yield, achieve, diesel.

GRAMMAR

Continuous Tense

(Часи групи Continuous)

	Active be+Present Participle(-ing)	Passive be+being+Past Participle(-ed)
Present	I am discussinga new plan now. He isstilldiscussing a new plan. They are discussing a new plan.	A new plan is being discussed. New plans are being discussed.
Past	Hewas discussing a new plan when the manager came. Theywere discussing a new plan during the meeting.	A new plan was being discussed whenwe came. New plans were being discussedduring the meeting.
Future	Wewill be discussing a new plan tomorrow at 5.	-

Spelling:

1. argue – arguing, hate – hating, love – loving (але: age – ageing, dye - dyeing, agree – agreeing, see – seeing)

2. hit – hitting, run – running, stop – stopping

3. ad'mit – admitting, be'gin – beginning, pre'fer – preferring (але: 'budget – budgeting, 'enter – entering)

4. signal – signalling, travel – travelling (AmE.: signaling, traveling)

5. carry – carrying, enjoy – enjoying, hurry – hurrying

6. die – dying, lie – lying

Present Continuous Tense

1. Подовжені дії, що здійснюються під час говоріння (still, now, at 11 o’clock, from 5 to 9 o’clock), або в теперішній період часу (today, this week, this season).

Please, don’t make so much noise. I am studying. (not I study)

Tom and Ann are talking and drinking in a café. Tom says, ‘I’mreading an interesting book at the moment.’

‘You are working hard today.’ ‘Yes, I have a lot to do.’

2. Ситуації, які швидко змінюються:

The population of the world is rising very fast. (not rises).

3. Майбутні дії, якщо виказується намір їх здійснення або впевненість у їх виконанні.

What are you doing tomorrow evening?

I am going to the theatre.

ПриміткаPresent Continuous Tense також може використовуватися:

-для висловлення меншої впевненості та офіціальності:

I am hoping you can lend me $100.

I’m afraid we must be going;