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Lesson Twelve
Lesson Twelve
Lesson Twelve
Lesson Twelve
Lesson Twelve
Grammar:
The Present Continuous Tense. Special Questions in
Indirect Speech. Imperative Sentences in Indirect Speech.
Texts:
1. Meals. 2. In the Canteen.
Phonetics:
Intonation of Parentheses.
STUDY THE FOLLOWING
T a b l e No. 1
THE
PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE
a)
I
am (not)
He
speaking
English.
My cousin
is (not)
writing
a letter.
Her brother
playing
the piano.
walking
fast.
reading
a newspaper.
W e
playing
football.
You
are (not)
The girls
b)
his wife
Is
their
friend
working
in the garden?
her mother
writing
anything?
standing
at the window?
reading
exercises?
the students
working
in the room?
Are
the
children
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T a b l e No. 2
SPECIAL QUESTIONS IN INDIRECT SPEECH
He
where my parents live.
My friend
asks (me)
why I am late.
Our teacher
where my father works.
what newspaper I read.
T a b l e No. 3
IMPERATIVE
SENTENCES IN INDIRECT SPEECH
He
asks me
to wait for him.
She
tells me
to do it at once.
Father
You
They
ask me
not to go there alone.
The girls
tell me
not to stay there any longer.
SPELLING RULES
The following spelling rules should be observed in the forma
tion of Participle I:
1. The mute
e is dropped before adding the suffix
ing: to
take — taking.
2. The final consonant is doubled (before the suffix
ing) if
it is preceded by a vowel expressing a short stressed sound: to
get — getting.
3.
The final l is doubled if it is preceded by a vowel express
ing a short sound: to travel — travelling.
4. In the verbs
to die,
to lie and
to tie the letters
ie are replaced
by
y before the suffix
ing: to die — dying; to lie — lying; to
tie — tying.
5. The final
y is not changed before adding the suffix
ing no
matter whether it is preceded by a consonant or by a vowel: to
say — saying; to dry — drying.
6.
The letter r is doubled if the final syllable is stressed: pre
fer — preferring; but: offer — offering.
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GRAMMAR EXERCISES
I. Study Substitution Table No. I and compose as many sentences
as you can.
II. Write and transcribe the first participle of the following verbs:
give, take, begin, buy, pay, say, listen, write, stay, leave, go,
come, dine, put, pass, talk, work, get, sit, look, forget, hurry,
study, travel, have, give, taste, prefer, bring, offer, add.
Ill. Give the verb in the following sentences in the Present
Continuous:
1. He (to read) newspapers. 2. I (to work) hard at my English.
3. She (to sit) at the window and (to look) at the sea. 4. I (to pre
pare) my homework. 5. They all (to work) at the laboratory. 6. I
(to write) letters to my cousins. 7. I (to have) breakfast with my
family. 8. We (not to go) to the Institute. 9. He (to come) home.
10. Mr. Smith (not to give) a lesson.
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