Past perfect continuous tense

Example: The two boys came into the house. One had a black eye and the other had a cut lip. (they/fight) They had been fighting.

1. Tom was watching television. He was feeling very tired.

(he/study hard/all day) He ….

2. When I walked into the room, it was empty. But there was a smell of cigarettes.

(somebody/smoke/in the room) Somebody ….

3. When Mary came back from the beach, she looked very red from the sun.

(she/lie in the sun too long) ….

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

(they/play/football) ….

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

(she/dream) ….

There were four of us – George and Harris and myself and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we (to feel) lately. Harris and George said they often felt so giddy that they couldn’t remember later what they (to do). I said that, with me, it was the liver. I knew that something was wrong with my liver, because I just (to read) about the symptoms by which a man could tell that something (to go) wrong with his liver. I had all those symptoms.

It was a strange thing: after I (to read) something about any illness, I always found that I really had it, that I (to suffer) from it for a long time, or even all my life. I went to the library one day to read about some illness, which I thought I had. Before I (to read) a few words about it I knew that I (to suffer) from it since my childhood. I got interested in my case and began to read the medical book in alphabetical order, and when, at last, I (to come) to the letter Z, I was sure that I had all those diseases, and that some of them I (to have) for a long time already.

Then I tried to feel my pulse. I couldn’t feel any pulse at all until, quite suddenly, it (to start) beating very fast: a hundred and forty seven to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart: it (to stop) beating. Later I realized that my heart (to be) in its place all the time, and it (to beat), but at that moment I didn’t feel it beating. I tried to look at my tongue with one eye, and I saw only the tip, and it was very red. So I felt quite sure that I had scarlet fever. I (to walk) into the reading-room a happy, healthy man. But after all that I (to read) there, I crawled out a complete wreck.

    (after Jerome)

4. Переведите:

1. Когда я позвонил, он сказал, что давно ждёт меня и уже решил уходить.

2. В конце концов она решила покинуть дом, где прожила столько лет и где была так счастлива.

3. Когда мать спросила сына, где он был, он ответил, что играл в футбол с друзьями.

4. Дождь, который лил с утра, прекратился к полудню, но еще дул сильный ветер и небо было покрыто темными тучами.

5. В тот день мы решили пойти на выставку картин, которые привезли из Дрездена. Долгое время о них не было ничего известно, они лежали где-то в подвалах (cellar), пока их не нашли.

6. Вскоре мне пришлось отложить работу, которую я делал до этого, хотя я почти её закончил.

7. В октябре 1917 года Ленин заявил, что революция, о необходимости которой так долго говорили большевики, наконец совершилась.

8. Только вечером они нашли ключ, который искали весь день.

9. Все его спрашивали, но он и сам не мог объяснить, что происходило с ним всё это время, почему он так долго не посещал занятия, где он был, о чём размышлял и т.д.

Будущее совершенное продолженное (длительное) время.

Future perfect continuous tense

Example: Alec / travel / ten years

By the end of next month, Alec will have been traveling for 10 years.

1. Mark/run/own business/eight years ….

2. Moira/star in films/six years ….

3. Kate/design clothes/four years ….

4. Jack/build houses/ten years ….

5. Ted/paint/fifteen years ….

1. By 3 o’clock, she (to study) for 6 hours.

2. By the end of next month Sam (to finish) the project.

4. He (not to start) painting the kitchen before Tuesday.

5. By the time she arrives in Paris she (to travel) for four hours.

6. I hope I (to buy) my own house by the time I am 35.

7. By Saturday Lisa (to diet) for two weeks.

8. Hopefully, they (to learn) everything by the time they sit the exam.

9. By Christmas I (to work) for this company for eighteen months.

10. By next weekend Brian (to move) house.

11. Hopefully, the builders (to finish) building the house by next month.

12. By Tuesday Alan (to sail) for twelve days.

13. By four o’clock I (to sit) in the hairdresser’s for three hours.

14. By tomorrow morning she (to sleep) for twelve hours.

3. Ответьте на вопросы:

1. What are you doing at the weekend?

2. How long will you have been studying English by the end of this term?

3. How much money will you have saved by the summer?

4. What will you be doing this time next week?

5. What do you think life will be in the future?

6. Where are you going next summer?

7. What will you have done by the end of today?

8. How many meals will you have eaten by the end of today?

4. Переведите:

1. К тому времени, как Мистер Браун выйдет на пенсию, он проработает в этой компании уже 30 лет.

2. Если я позвоню в 8, ты уже закончишь свою домашнюю работу к тому времени?

3. Мы вернемся домой к воскресенью.

4. Я думаю, я успею хорошо отдохнуть к тому времени, как каникулы закончатся.

5. В 4 часа будет уже ровно 2 часа, как я стою в этой очереди! (wait in the queue)

6. К ночи он будет за рулём уже 12 часов.

7. К тому времени, как мы доберёмся до кинотеатра, фильм уже начнется. И, может быть, он уже будет идти некоторое время.

8. В понедельник будет 2 месяца, как я работаю в этой компании.

9. Мы нарядим ёлку к 10 часам.

Пассивный (страдательный) залог.

Passive voice

Сравните образование и употребление видо-временных форм глаголов действительного и страдательного залогов. Переведите предложения.

The Active Voice                                 The Passive voice

They usually close the shop at 8.         The shop is usually closed at 8.

They closed the shop at 8 yesterday.      The shop was closed at 8                                                         yesterday

They will close the shop at 8.               The shop will be closed at 8.

I wrote the letter.                          The letter was written by me.

We study many interesting                   Many interesting subjects are

subjects at the institute.                        studied by us at the institute.

We shall finish the work tomorrow.       The work will be finished by                                                   us tomorrow.

Измените по лицам глагол-сказуемое в следующих предложениях.

1. I am asked.

2. I was given the opportunity to do this work.

3. I shall be invited.