THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE
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Exercise 65. Make up five sentences from each table. |
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cleaning the room. |
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playing hockey. |
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having breakfast. |
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We |
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reading a newspaper. |
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cooking dinner. |
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They |
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listening to the radio. |
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watering flowers? |
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he |
watching television? |
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Am |
she |
drinking tea? |
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we |
writing on the blackboard? |
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you |
washing up dishes? . . |
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they |
having dinner? |
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doing? „ ’ |
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Who{m) |
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reading? |
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am |
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speaking about? |
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we |
waiting for? |
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you |
listening to? |
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playing with? |
Exercise 66. Make the following interrogative and negative.
1. The teacher is explaining a grammar rule. 2. The woman is playing with a child. 3. The boys are skating. 4.1 am waiting for them. 5. The children are having supper,
6. It is raining. 7. I am cleaning the blackboard. 8. My sister Chris and David are getting married today. 9. I’m always thinking about her these days 10. Ingrid and Dorothy are giggling and whispering together.
Exercise 67. Do as you are told and say what you are doing.
Model: Clean the blackboard. — lam cleaning the blackboard. ' 1. Go to the door. 2. Stand at the blackboard, 3. Write a
sentence on the blackboard. 4. Hold the duster in your left hand. 5. Sit at your desk. 6. Put your books into your bag.
7. Take your notebooks out of your bags. 8. Count the words in the text. 9. Draw a house. 10. Carry your friend’s bag.
Exercise 68. Ask questions as you are told. ' ■
Ask me:
1. if I am going to school; 2. whether I am preparing for the concert; 3. if my sister is working at a factory; 4. if the
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