Read and translate the text. Answer the following questions.

Many teenage girls want to be stewardesses. They think it is a lovely job. The money is very good and you can travel cheaply all over the world – when you have free time. I live in a flat with a stewardess and I know that her job is very difficult and tiring. Louise never has time for anything. She often has to rush to the airport at five o’clock in the morning. She never knows exactly where she will be at any time. Her plans are never definite until the last minute. Every time I see her she is running, with a suit-case in one hand, looking at her watch.

Last week on a flight from New York to London all the cabin crew were busily serving meals and drinks to the hundreds of passengers. There were some children jumping up and down in their seats shouting for more orange squash. Then the chief stewardess noticed a strange smell which was coming from one of the kitchens on the 747. “What is that smell?” she asked Louise. “It’s the roast beef cooking,” Louise replied. “But we are not serving roast beef in its flight,” the chief stewardess said.

“I know,” Louise explained. “But I am going to have a dinner party tonight and I won’t have time to cook it when I get home!”

 

Why do many teenage girls want to be stewardess?........................................................................................

Why do they think it is a lovely job?...............................................................................................................

What was Louise’s profession?.......................................................................................................................

What city was her plane bound for?......................................………………………………………………..

What smell did the chief stewardess suddenly notice?.....................................................................................

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Where did the smell come from?.....................................................................................................................

Did Louise know what smell it was?.......................................................................………………………….

Present Continuous Tense

Обозначает:

Длительное действие, происходящее в момент разговора

We are writing a dictation now

Действие, происходящее в период настоящего времени, но не обязательно в момент разговора. Период времени ограничен

I am redecorating my room this week

Параллельные действия в настоящем

I am playing in the garden and my sister is helping my Mum in the kitchen

Будущее организованное, запланированное действие

We are leaving for Paris on Wednesday

Put the verbs into right form

You (not/watch) TV at the moment. Why don’t you switch it off?.................................................................

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Where is Ann? – She (wait) outside.................................................................................................................

He is not in the house now. He (play) football in the garden...........................................................................

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Listen! Somebody (play) the piano...................................................................................................................

Please, don’t bother me. I (work)...…………………………………………………………………………...

Ann (wait) for her mother, while she (speak) to the officer.............................................................................

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I (redecorate) my room now.............................................................................................................................

Please, I (look) for the post office. Is there one nearby?....………………………………………………….

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Use the Continuous Tense forms

The Smiths (to come) to see us tonight.........................………………………………………………………

Where is Ann? – She (to do) the flat.................................................................................................................

She (to wear) a long black dress, while her husband put on a white jacket......................................................

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It (to rain) hard, I’d better stay at home............................................................................................................

We (to walk) in the park now...........................................................................................................................

They (to have) a party tonight, so now they (to prepare) dinner in the kitchen................................................

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My granny (to work) in the garden now...........................................................................................................

 

Make these sentences interrogative and negative

My mother is reading........................................................................................................................................

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I’m listening to music now...............................................................................................................................

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My brother is cleaning the room.......................................................................................................................

Father is cooking breakfast...............................................................................................................................

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The children are watching TV..........................................................................................................................

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Mother and granny are cooking in the kitchen.................................................................................................

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He is cleaning his room now.............................................................................................................................

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My father is repairing the car now....................................................................................................................

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Mother and granny are cooking in the kitchen................................................................................................

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I am playing the violin now.............................................................................................................................

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He is painting the fence now.............................................................................................................................

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Ask all possible questions to the sentences

The baby is sleeping in its room now...............................................................................................................

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He is reading an interesting book in the library...............................................................................................

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My little brother is playing with his toys..........................................................................................................

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Mother is knitting socks for me........................................................................................................................

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Give short answers

Is the secretary typing our papers?....................................................................................................................

Are you helping your mother around the house?..............................................................................................

Am I reading an interesting book now?............................................................................................................

Is he waiting for his girlfriend?.........................................................................................................................

Are they watching TV now?.............................................................................................................................

Is she washing in the bathroom?.......................................................................................................................

Are they playing computer games?...................................................................................................................

Is he walking in the street?................................................................................................................................

Is she listening to music in her room?..............................................................................................................

 

6. Use the correct form of the verb “to be”

I ….. taking five courses this semester.

Bill ….. trying to improve his English.

Sue ….. writing another book this year.

John and Mary ….. talking on the phone.

We ….. playing football in the garden.

His uncle ….. working on his book.

My grandmother ….. writing a letter to our relatives.

The singers ….. singing on the stage.

I need an umbrella because it ….. raining.

Who ….. speaking in the next room?