Your Practice: Try to define tenses of the verbs in these sentences:

1. I like to travel.

2. Last summer I was in Great Britain.

3. I had finished my new book before I went there.

4. I thought that I would have done it in June, but I couldn’t.

5. My friends have been waiting for me since Monday.

6. We were talking about music and art.

7. Next summer I will visit Italy.

8. I am planning to see my friends.

9. We will be swimming in the sea all day long.

10. I will have returned home by the end of August.

Active Voice Story

When I was a pupil of a primary school I thought that I would become a paleontologist. I dreamed that I would be digging graves of ancient animals somewhere at the south coast of Mediterranean sea every winter and at the north coast of Black sea every summer. I decided that I would have entered Moscow State University at the age of 16. But my parents were sure that it was not a good idea for a woman. So I was thinking over my plans for future with my friends and relatives. I had decided to become a ballet dancer and entered the Bolshoy Theatre School (evening course). I had been studying there till we left Moscow for Zelenograd and it became difficult to get there after school. Now I am a pupil of the best secondary school in Zelenograd. I am taking special courses on English every Tuesday and Friday at 18 P.M. I have passed my First Certificate examination. I have been studying music for four years. I will become a teacher of English. I will be preparing for my entrance exams during the last two years at school. I will have finished school in three years. I will have been studying English for five years at Moscow State Pedagogical University.

Read the story and make your own similar, using as many English tenses as possible.

COMPARISON

(Соответствие русских и английских времен глаголов в действительном залоге)

Время

Образец

Tense

Example

1. Мы играем в шахматы в пятницу.

2. Мы живем в Зеленограде 10 лет.

3. Мы сейчас играем в шахматы.

4. Мы играем в шахматы уже 2 часа.

1. We play chess on Friday.

2. We have lived at Zelenograd for 10 years.

3. We are playing chess now.

4. We have been playing chess for 2 hours.

5. Мы играли в шахматы.

6. Мы играли в шахматы вчера в 2 часа.

7. Мы сыграли в шахматы сегодня.

8. Мы играли в шахматы, когда он пришел.

9. Мы уже сыграли в шахматы, когда он пришел.

10. Мы играли в шахматы уже 2 часа, когда он пришел.

5. We played chess.

6. We were playing chess at 2 o’clock yesterday.

7. We have played chess today.

8. We were playing chess when he came.

9. We had played chess when he came.

10. We had been playing chess for 2 hours when he came.

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11. Мы собираемся играть в шахматы.

12. Мы собираемся пойти играть в шахматы.

13. Мы собираемся в театр сегодня вечером.

14. Мы будем играть в шахматы.

15. Мы будем играть в шахматы в пятницу в 2 часа.

16. Мы будем играть в шахматы, когда он придет.

17. Мы уже сыграем в шахматы, когда он придет.

18. Мы будем играть в шахматы уже 2 часа, когда он придет.

19. Я думал, что мы будем играть в шахматы.

20. Я думал, что мы будем долго играть в шахматы.

21. Я думал, что мы сыграем в шахматы, но мы не играли.

11. We are going to play chess.

12. We are about to go and play chess.

13. We are going to the theatre tonight.

14. We will play chess.

15. We will be playing chess at 2 o’clock on Friday.

16. We will be playing chess when he comes.

17. We will have played chess when he comes.

18. We will have been playing chess for 2 hours when he comes.

19. I thought we would play chess.

20. I thought we would be playing chess.

21. I thought we would have played chess.

Your Practice: Translate from Russian into English:

1. Мы играли в шахматы вчера.

2. Мы будем играть в шахматы сегодня.

3. Мы будем играть в шахматы завтра.

Make your own sentences using the samples in the table.

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