Exercise 3 Read the following words
a) Mine, side, bride, like, kite, while, white, Friday, write, nice, crime, mile, tie, exercise, slide, surprise, precise, title, silence, microchip;
b) bit, pit, picture, sincere, resist, cubic, width, fix, mixture, ill, still, different, difficult, since, simple, middle, tilt, timber, signify;
c) knight, fight, bright, tonight, mind, find, wild, sign, might, right, sight, blind, child, kind, tights;
d) third, birth, sir, bird, fir, virtual, virgin, shirt, skirt, mirth, irk, girl, firm, firth, dirty, circus, circulate, birch;
e) retire, require, shire, admire, wire, tire, sire, mire, ire, hire, dire, tiresome, entire, desire;
f) believe, brief, chief, field, grief, grievance, grieve, mischief, niece, piece, priest, siege, yield, achieve, diesel.
GRAMMAR
Continuous Tense
(Часи групи Continuous)
| Active be+Present Participle(-ing) | Passive be+being+Past Participle(-ed) | |
| Present | I am discussinga new plan now. He isstilldiscussing a new plan. They are discussing a new plan. | A new plan is being discussed. New plans are being discussed. |
| Past | Hewas discussing a new plan when the manager came. Theywere discussing a new plan during the meeting. | A new plan was being discussed whenwe came. New plans were being discussedduring the meeting. |
| Future | Wewill be discussing a new plan tomorrow at 5. | - |
Spelling:
1. argue – arguing, hate – hating, love – loving (але: age – ageing, dye - dyeing, agree – agreeing, see – seeing)
2. hit – hitting, run – running, stop – stopping
3. ad'mit – admitting, be'gin – beginning, pre'fer – preferring (але: 'budget – budgeting, 'enter – entering)
4. signal – signalling, travel – travelling (AmE.: signaling, traveling)
5. carry – carrying, enjoy – enjoying, hurry – hurrying
6. die – dying, lie – lying
Present Continuous Tense
1. Подовжені дії, що здійснюються під час говоріння (still, now, at 11 o’clock, from 5 to 9 o’clock), або в теперішній період часу (today, this week, this season).
Please, don’t make so much noise. I am studying. (not I study)
Tom and Ann are talking and drinking in a café. Tom says, ‘I’mreading an interesting book at the moment.’
‘You are working hard today.’ ‘Yes, I have a lot to do.’
2. Ситуації, які швидко змінюються:
The population of the world is rising very fast. (not rises).
3. Майбутні дії, якщо виказується намір їх здійснення або впевненість у їх виконанні.
What are you doing tomorrow evening?
I am going to the theatre.
ПриміткаPresent Continuous Tense також може використовуватися:
-для висловлення меншої впевненості та офіціальності:
I am hoping you can lend me $100.
I’m afraid we must be going;
-для висловлення незадоволення, скарги, тощо:
He is continually borrowing money from me.