Are you a part-time or full-time student? 2.What year are you in? 3.What classes do you have? 4.What lectures do you attend? 5.Do you ever miss lectures? 6.How many exams will you have in winter?

Grammar: Continuous Tenses
	Active	Passive
to be + Present Participle	to be + being + Past Participle
	am	am
Present	is building	is beingbuilt
	are	are
Past	was	was
	building	being built
	were	were
Future			———
will be building

Models: We are translating the text (переводим).

We were translating the text when the sub-dean came in (переводили).

We will be translating the text the whole lesson tomorrow (будем переводить).

The text was being translated the whole lesson yesterday (переводился / переводили).

Notes:Present Continuous is used with adverbs now, at present; with the words this week (temporary situation); to express a fixed future arrangement.

2.23 Read Ann’s e-mail and find examples of:

a) a fixed future arrangement

b) an action happening around the time of speaking

c) a timetable

d) a permanent state

e) a temporary situation

f) a habit/routine

g) an action happening now

Dear Emily,

Thanks for your e-mail. It’s always great to hear from you. As for me, I’m really busy. College life is very exciting, but there’s so much to do. I get up at 8 o’clock on weekdays because lectures start at 9:30. I spend most of my afternoons in the library as I’m taking six different courses this term and there’s lots of reading to do! At the weekend I do some part-time waitressing. So as you can see, I’m working very hard these days. But it’s not all work and no play. Tonight I’m having dinner with some classmates. I can’t wait!

I’d better finish here because Sarah, my flatmate, is calling me to come and help her. Come and visit me soon!

Ann

 

Put the verb into the correct form.

Examples: Please don’t make so much noise. I am studying (study).

Listen to these people. What language are they speaking (speak)?

1.Look! It … (snow). 2.Please be quiet. I … (try) to concentrate. 3.Why … (you / look) at me like that? Have I said anything wrong? 4.You … (make) a lot of noise. Can you be a bit quieter? 5.He is still ill but he … (get) better slowly. 6. The population of the world … (rise) very fast. 7.I … (not / work) this week. I’m on holiday. 8.Why … (you wear) your coat today? It’s very warm. 9.The economic situation is already very bad and is … (become) worse.

 

2.25 Put the verb into the correct form, Past Continuous or Past Simple.

Example: While Jane was cooking … (cook) the dinner, the phone rang (ring).

1.George … (fall) off the ladder while he … (paint) the ceiling. 2.Ann … (wait) for me when I … (arrive). 3.I … (not / drive) very fast when the accident … (happen). 4.Tom … (take) a photograph of me while I … (not / look). 5.We … (not / go) out because it … (rain). 6.What … (you / do) at this time yesterday? 7.The phone … (ring) when I … (have) a shower. 8.It … (begin) to rain when I … (walk) home.

 

2.26 Link the sentences. Use and, then, after that, when, before.

1.On Saturdays I meet my friends for coffee. We go to the cinema. 2.She has breakfast. She leaves for university. 3.On Sundays we have a family dinner. We watch a movie. 4.I get up. The alarm clock rings. 5.She has a shower. She gets dressed.

 

STUDENT LIFE

2.27 What do you know about student life in Russia – cultural, sport, scientific? What do you know about student life at your university? Read the text and say which event or activity do you take part in?

At SMTU studying is not confined to the classroom. There is a wide range of social, recreational and sports activities. There are also a lot of annual traditional and cultural events to look forward to.

Students’ social life is planned to encourage their creativity and abilities. A wide range of students’ activities in the SMTU includes a variety of festivals such as “KVN” clubs, intellectual games (“What? Where? When?”, Brain Ring), various competitions and parties. The “Korabel” club offers to try your hand at singing in “Gaudeamus” choir, a patriotic club, dancing, drumming, photo-, theatre-, DJ-, showmen studios and others. Balls, holidays, contests and marine festivals are held all year long.

University students’ scientific life is marked by participating in the All-Russia Science Festival, the International Cultural-educational technical higher school course of the Shanhai Cooperation Union countries and the Student Scientific Forum “Lomonosov’s Land”.

There are sport and fitness clubs at the University. They hold chess, rowing, sailing, billiards, football, basketball, volleyball sport competitions and tournaments. Every spring nearly all the students take part in a sport competition “Lotsmanskaya Mile”.