Exercise 14. Translate into English using Present Perfect Continuous
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 410.
Watch, cry, play, work, do
- Your eyes are red. _______you _________?
- Yes. I __________________a sad film.
- You look tired. What _________you __________?
- I ______________in the garden with the children.
- Your partner and you look like old friends.
- Yes. We ______________ together for pretty long.
Exercise 13. Fill in the gaps using Present Perfect Continuous.
1. Come in! We .............. (speak) about you.
2. How long you........... (sit) here?
3. It ........... (rain) since morning, and we cannot go out.
4. She............... (design) sets since 1998.
5. She................ (wait) for us for a long time.
6. They.......... (watch) me all the time. I don't like it.
7. What you.............. (do) since I last saw you?
8. He........... (work) as a stuntman since he left school.
1. Мой дядя пишет стихи с детства.
2. Мой папа работает художником-оформителем с 1995 года.
3. Мы изучаем английский язык не с 2012 года. Мы его уже гораздо дольше учим.
4. Они уже несколько лет занимаются компьютерной анимацией.
5. Он учит монолог Гамлета уже два дня.
6. Она не 20 минут разговаривает по телефону. Она болтает уже минут 40.
7. Директор картины с утра составляет график съёмок.
8. Они с трех часов пытаются рассчитать смету.
9. Они репетируют эту сцену уже полтора часа.
10. Мы арендуем этот павильон не с четверга. Мы арендуем его с пятницы.
11. Всё это время спор вращается вокруг финансовых вопросов.
Exercise 15. In pairs ask and answer questions based on the following cues, using the example as a model.
Example
Computer/interesting/learn to program in BASIC
A: How has your computer class been going? What have you been doing in it?
B: It's an interesting class. Over the last few days we've been learning to program in BASIC.
1. psychology / gripping / do experiments with rats
2. economics / confusing / study World Bank policies
3. German / hard / memorize irregular verbs
4. physics / interesting / study sound signals
5. film history / enjoyable / watch silent films
6. statistics / boring / calculate probabilities
7. art history / informative / read about the Renaissanceartists
8. scenic speech / fascinating / learn tongue-twisters
Exercise 16. In pairs, take turns asking questions and responding to them. Using the following cues and the example as a model, form questions with how long ... ? and answers with for or since. You may give long or short answers.
Example:
work on that report / early this morning
A: You look tired! How long have you been working on that report? B: Too long! I've been working on it since early this morning.
1. study / 6:30 A.M.
2. do research for that term paper / three days
3. do homework / midnight
4. practise your presentation / early this morning
5. memorize German verbs / more than two hours
6. type that report / late last night
7. calculate those statistics / dinnertime
8. review English grammar / over six hours!
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