Read the situations and complete the sentences.

 

1. The rain started two hours ago. It's still raining now. It has been raining for two hours.

2. We started waiting for the bus 20 minutes ago. We're still waiting now.

We _______ for 20 minutes.

3. I started Spanish classes in December. I'm still learning Spanish now.

I __________ since December.

4. Ann began looking for a job six months ago. She's still looking now.

________ for six months.

5. Mary started working in London on 18 January. She's still working there now.

________ since 18 January.

6. Years ago you started writing to a pen-friend. You still write to each other regularly now.

We _________ for years.

3.4. Write questions with how long and when.

1. It's raining.

(how long?) How long has it been raining?

(when?) When did it start raining?

2. Kate is learning Italian.

(how long/learn?) ________

(when/start/learn?) _________

3. I know Martin.

(how long/know?) _________

(when/first/meet?) _________

4. Bob and Alice are married.

(how long?) ____________

(when?)__________

Раскройте скобки, употребляя глаголы в одном из следующих времен: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Present Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous.

1. He (to run) now. He (to run) for ten minutes without any rest. 2. What they (to do) now? — They (to work) in the reading-room. They (to work) there for already three hours. 3. Where he (to be) now? — He (to be) in the garden. He (to play) volley-ball with his friends. They (to play) since breakfast time. 4. I (to live) in St. Petersburg. I (to live) in St. Petersburg since 1990. 5. She already (to do)her homework for two hours; but she (not yet to do) half of it. 6. I (to wait) for you since two o'clock. 7. What you (to do)? — I (to read). I (to read) for already two hours. I already (to read) sixty pages. 8. This man (to be) a writer. He (to write) books. He (to write) books since he was a young man. He already (to write) eight books. 9. What you (to do) here since morning? 10. Lena is a very good girl. She always (to help) her mother about the house. Today she (to help) her mother since morning. They already (to wash) the floor and (to dust) the furniture. Now they (to cook) dinner together.

Переведите, обращая внимание на Past perfect continuous

1. Yesterday morning I got up and looked out of the window. The sun was shining but the ground was very wet.

2. It had been raining.

3. When the boys came into the house, their clothes were dirty, their hair was untidy and one of them had a black eye. They'd been fighting.

4. I was very tired when I arrived home. I'd been working hard all day.

5. Our game of tennis was interrupted. We'd been playing for about half an hour when it started to rain very heavily.

6. Ken gave up smoking two years ago. He'd been smoking for 30 years.

7. Ann was sitting in an armchair watching television. She was tired because she'd been working very hard.

 

Заполните предложения.

 

1. I was very tired when I arrived home.

(I/work/hard all day)

I had been working hard all day.

2. The two boys came into the house. They had a football and they were both very tired.

(they/play/football) __________________

3. There was nobody in the room but there was a smell of cigarettes.

(somebody/smoke/in the room) _____________

4. Ann woke up in the middle of the night. She was frightened and didn't know where she was.

(she/dream) _____________

5. When I got home, Mike was sitting in front of the TV. He had just turned it off.

(he/watch/TV) _____________

 

Read the situations and complete the sentences.

 

1. We played tennis yesterday. Half an hour after we began playing, it started to rain.

We had been playing for half an hour when it started to rain.

2. I had arranged to meet Tom in a restaurant. I arrived and waited for him. After 20 minutes I suddenly realised that I was in the wrong restaurant. I _____________ for 20 minutes when I _____________

3. Sarah got a job in a factory. Five years later the factory closed down.

At the time the factory _____________, Sarah _____________ there for five years.

4. I went to a concert last week. The orchestra began playing. After about ten minutes a man in the audience suddenly began shouting.

The orchestra _____________when _____________

5. This time make your own sentence:

I began walking along the road. I _____________when _____________