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2. When I called on my friend the other day, he was writing a report. He said
he had been working at it for a month.
3. Yesterday morning I got up and looked out of the window. The sun was
shining, but the ground was wet. It had been raining.
4. When the boys came into the house, their clothes were dirty, their hair was
untidy and one boy had a black eye. They had been fighting.
V. Make up sentences by combining the suitable parts from the right – and
left-hand columns.
1. She had been saving up money for
some time
A) before he took part in Wimbledon
championship
2. She had been studying Spanish for
three years
B) before she could buy a fur coat
3. He had been writing poetry for some
years
C) before she went to Spain as a tourist
4. He had been playing tennis for five
years
D) before she became a pensioner
5. She had been working at school for
25 years
E) before his first collection of poems
came out
VI. Use Future Perfect Continuous Tense of the verbs in brackets. Translate the
sentences.
1. Next year we (study) English for three years.
2. In two months she (to work ) at school for ten years.
3. Next summer I (to take) music lessons for two and a half years.
4. The children (to sleep) for two hours by the time their parents came home.
5. In ten minutes they (to discuss) this question for three hours.
VII. Translate the following sentences. Pay attention to the use of tenses in
Russian and in English.
1. I knew that you were ill. I knew that you had been ill.
2. We found that she left home at 8 o'clock every morning. We found that she
had left home by 8 o'clock that morning.
3. When he learnt that his son always received excellent marks in all subjects,
he was very pleased. When he learnt that his son had received an excellent
mark at school, he was very pleased.
4. We did know where our friends went every evening. We did know where our
friends had gone.
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