- •Olga a. Berezina, Yelena m. Shpilyuk
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- •6 Foreword предисловие
- •Авторы the article Usage of Articles
- •Bay of Bengal
- •Countable and Uncountable Nouns
- •17 The adjective and the pronoun
- •Some, Any, No
- •Not versus No
- •Much, Many, Few, Little
- •Other, The Other, Another
- •25 Different Meanings and Usage of: All, Each, Either, Neither, Every, Both
- •31 The adjective and the adverb
- •Degrees of Comparison
- •Present Simple
- •II. The Past Simple Tense
- •III The Future Simple Tense
- •The "Going To" Form
- •II. The Past Progressive Tense
- •III. The Future Progressive Tense
- •I. The Present Perfect Tense
- •II. The Past Perfect Tense
- •III. The Future Perfect Tense
- •I. The Ptesent Perfect Progressive Tense
- •II. The Past Perfect Progressive Tense
- •III. The Future Perfect Progressive Tense
- •I. The Past Simple Passive
- •II Present Simple Passive
- •III. The Future Simple Passive
- •IV. The Present Progressive Passive
- •V. The Past Progressive Passive
- •VI. The Present Perfect Passive
- •VII. The Past Perfect Passive
- •VIII. The Future Perfect Passive
- •139 The Imperative Mood
- •Modal Verbs can, could
- •May, might
- •Exercise 5
- •149 Must, to be to, to have to
- •Should, ought to
- •Recapitulation of the modal verbs
- •Conditional Sentences
- •II type
- •III type
- •If it were not for ...
- •If it hadn’t been for ... But for ...
- •189 The modal verbs "could" and "might" in conditional sentences
- •Recapitulation of conditional sentences
- •The Complex Object
- •Indirect Speech
- •Modal verbs in indirect speech
- •227 Passive voice in indirect speech
- •Conditional sentences in indirect speech
- •231 Recapitulation of indirect speech
- •Troublesome Verbs
- •244 The Participle
- •246 Appendix 1 tense forms (the active voice)
- •248 Appendix 1 tense forms (the active voice)
- •250 Appendix 3 conditional sentences
II Present Simple Passive
Exercise 1
Match the words in the left and in the right column according to the pattern.
> Pattern: Gold is mined in Russia.
Use: the Present Simple Passive of the following verbs: to mine, to produce, to grow, to manufacture, to build, to make.
coffee
ships
wine
cars
wheat
computers
tea
silk
radios
cotton
sheep
Japan
France
Russia
India
Italy
The USA
Australia
Canada
China
The UK
Germany
Exercise 2
Make up questions from the words given below according to the pattern. Then answer the questions.
> Pattern: Where/meals/to cook?
Where are meals cooked?
They are cooked in the kitchen.
1. Where/the patients/to operate on?
2. When/the exams/to take?
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3. Where/English/to speak?
Where/English/to teach?
Where/Oriental languages/to teach?
Where/bread/to keep?
When/dinner/usually/to eat?
When/the children/to put to bed?
Where/books/to sell?
Where/newspapers/to print?
What/bottles/to make of?
Where/concerts/to hold?
What/bags/to make of?
When/the tests/to write?
What/furniture/to make of?
III. The Future Simple Passive
Exercise 1
Look at the following pictures and say what will happen on this island in a year or two. You may use the Future Simple Passive of the verbs: to build, to create, to drain (a marsh), to enlarge, to surround, to lay, to wipe out etc.
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Exercise 2
Ask questions to the following sentences according to the pattern.
► Pattern: They will send Jane abroad.
When wilt she be sent abroad?
He will read the lecture on Dickens.
The milkman will bring milk.
His mother will bake the birthday cake.
His friends will give him a lot of presents.
The students will take their exams in room 305.
Someone will give you this book.
The painter will finish his picture soon.
They will certainly bring us this parcel.
They will explain this rule to you again.
She will give your money back to you.
They will look into your matter more carefully.
Sooner or later he will take notice of her.
They will put an end to this sort of practice.
Sooner or later they will agree upon some plan.
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IV. The Present Progressive Passive
Exercise 1
Make up sentences describing what is being done now.
> Pattern: The hens/to feed/ту brother.
The hens are being fed by my brother.
The money/to count.
The windows/to clean/me.
The meal/to cook/in the kitchen.
The car/to fix/in the garage.
The grass/to cut.
The fence/to whitewash.
The student/to examine/in this room.
The patient/to operate on.
The road/to repair/the workmen.
The old castle/to reconstruct.
The dishes/to wash.
The wheat/to harvest.
The field/to plough.
The dog/to wash/its master.
A birthday cake/to make/in the kitchen.
The trees/to plant/in the yard.
A record/to play.
Exercise 2
Ask questions to the following sentences beginning with the words in brackets.
The tape-recorder is being fixed now. (What? What?)
Some record is being played. (What?)
The forms are being filled in by the tourists. (Whom ... by?)
The fire is being put out by the firemen. (Whom ...by?)
A new medicine is being tried at the hospital. (Where? What?)
The tourists are being shown around the city. (Who?)
A new road is being built not far from here. (What? Where?)
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A lot of questions are still being asked about it. (Why? What... about?)
A new film is being shown on TV now. (What?)
Exercise 3
Imagine that you are walking in the street. What do you see? Make up sentences describing what is going on now.
► Use: the Present Progressive Passive.
> Pattern: Some car is being washed.