Ex. 1. Explain the use of the Present Indefinite in the following sentences:
1. I sleep here. My father sleeps in his study.
2. In case she wants to see him, he'll come over.
3. "Your mouth is bleeding. Does it hurt?" Martha asked me.
4. Where do we go from here?
5. Please see that the children don't get nervous.
6. I do a lot of travelling, you know.
7. One lives and learns.
8. He owns a big car.
9. "It won't do any good to anyone if you get ill, I said.
10. "His men act silently as a rule. They wear dark glasses and
they call after dark, " he added.
11. You understand what we're talking about?
12. Changes happen very quickly here.
13. How quickly you leap to his defense!
14. I said, "I take things as they come.
15. His temper will not be right until we are at home again.
16. "Do you often, " I asked, "take holidays in these parts?"
17. She beat with her hand on the back of the sofa and cried to
them: "You talk too much. "
18. "It's too late to go anywhere. " "What do we do then?"
19. "Perhaps after breakfast I could ring up my family. " "The
telephone doesn't work.
20. Then the captain announced in a duty voice: "Tomorrow after-
noon we arrive by four o'clock.
21. "The news calls for champagne, " Jones said.
22. Why don't you go back home?
23. They wish to make sure that he does not alter his plans.
24. She thought he wanted to look a mystery man to her. "You
play your role fine, she said.
25. I brush my teeth every night.
26. "I give up, " she said. "You win".
27. It is a scene in which Mr Dante, in a white dinner-jacket,
arrives at the ground floor by lift. The lift door opens, Dante
2 I have read that the school programmes in England may be different in different cities. Is this true?
3 Where can I learn more about English secondary schools?
4 It's very useful that the students in the school receive information about choosing their future profession ( career)
5 Was it easy for you to choose your future profession?- Yes, while studying in my last school year I had already found out that I was going to enter the philological department of the University. I would like to be fluent in several foreign languages.
6 I hear that our children will have to go to school in a school uniform. I wonder whether they will have to wear a school badge?
7 In our country, eight-year secondary education is obligatory.
8 I do my best to finish school well.
9 Your success depends on hard work.1
0 The personality of the first school teacher plays an important role in the life of any student.
11 In our country, almost all schools are mixed.
12 I finished school twenty years ago but I would like to walk around my old school, to see how it had changed
13 Do you like maths and literature? What would you like to be?
14 I'm not very good at exact Sciences. - Neither am I.
15 The boy showed extraordinary talent for mathematics and he was sent to to study to mathematical school.
16 Many people find the English system of tenses to be quite difficult.
17 I wonder who made up this text?
18 He is said to be the strongest student in the school.
19 She hasn't already been attending classes for two weeks. She may be sick.(She's probably sick).
20 I'll be rather a doctor, not a journalist.
21 I hate cooking but love eating some tasty food.
22 Yesterday we (were detained) stayed longer at school. We had an interesting lecture. I couldn't miss it. By the way, why were you absent?
23 Wonderful opportunities to use your knowledge will open in front of you.