Рассмотрим
сегодня одно из времен
английского языка. Оно
применяется при
обозначении действия
происходящего в данный
момент. Например: "Я пишу
письмо". Его форма:
am +...
is + verb + -ing
are +...
Отрицание:
I am (not) +./ I'm
(not) + ...
He (she, it) is (not) working. / He's (not)
working.
We (you, they) are (not) +... / We're (not) + ...
То есть
глагол to be +
инфинитив глагола
действия + ing.
Где
применяется:
1 Для
выражения действия,
которое происходит в
момент речи.
They're playing football in the garden.
She can't answer the phone because she's washing
her hair.
* Глаголы, выражающие
умственную и
эмоциональную
деятельность, в Present Continuous
не используются: Это нужно
запомнить:
Yesterday he was called to his
account - вчера он скончался.
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АНЕКДОТЫ
First Class
Blondie
A beautiful young blonde woman boards a plane to
LA with a ticket for the coach
section. She looks at the seats in coach and then
looks ahead to the first class
seats. Seeing that the first class seats appear
to be much larger and more
comfortable, she moves forward to the last empty
one. The flight attendant
checks her ticket and tells the woman that her
seat is in coach.
The blonde replies, "I'm young, blonde and
beautiful, and I'm going to sit here all
the way to LA."
Flustered, the flight attendant goes to the
cockpit and informs the captain of the
blonde problem. The captain goes back and tells
the woman that her assigned
seat is in coach.
Again, the blonde replies, "I'm young,
blonde and beautiful, and I'm going to sit
here all the way to LA."
The captain doesn't want to cause a commotion,
and so returns to the cockpit
to discuss the blonde with the co-pilot. The
co-pilot says that he has a blonde
girlfriend, and that he can take care of the
problem. He then goes back and
briefly whispers something into the blonde's ear.
She immediately gets up, says, "Thank you so
much," hugs the co-pilot, and
rushes back to her seat in the coach section. The
pilot and flight attendant, who
were watching with rapt attention, together ask
the co-pilot what he had said to
the woman.
He replies, "I just told her that the first
class section isn't going to LA."