16 Put the verb in brackets into Present Simple or Present Continuous.

a) ______ you (to watch) TV now?

b) They ______ (to drink) coffee in the morning.

c) Bill ______ (to stay) at the Kosmos hotel now.

d) Where ______ you (to go) at the moment?

e) I ______ (to look for) new shoes.

f) We ______ (to do) shopping on Fridays.

Take-home assignment

1 Describe the way from your home to the University.

2 Learn one of the dialogues from exercise 1.

3 Complete the sentences with the appropriate verbs from the box in the correct tense: Present Simple or Present Continuous.

want get up read wash up do run drive take tease come

a) Jim ______ at 5.00 a.m. every morning.

b) He ______ 3 kilometers before breakfast.

c) Quick, let's cross the road. That drunken man ______ this way.

d) Can you get the phone? I ______ in the kitchen.

e) My mother ______ the 8.20 bus on Mondays.

f) I ______ a great book by Stephen King!

g) My parents ______ the shopping on Saturdays.

h) John's a little worried because his parents ______ from London to Glasgow.

i) I ______ to see you. Can you come into my office?

j) I'm fed up with you! You ______ me again.

4 Read the texts about British and American cities and render them into Russian.

Looking at English cities

Birmingham, which lies in the West Midlands, is England’s second-largest city after London. It is one of England’s largest industrial centers. Birmingham produces a lot of steel and has many highly skilled engineers, making it an ideal spot for the British auto industry. Long before the auto industry arrived, Birmingham was famous for its military equipment, jewelry and other crafts.

Liverpool, located on the Mersey River, boasts one of the largest harbors in the world and a center of shipping and manufacturing. Liverpool is perhaps most famous for having produced the Beatles, the pop music group that dominated the charts in the 1960s. Today its industry is in decline, and many of its port facilities have been converted to stores and apartments.

Sheffield, England’s fourth-largest city, is located on the Don River in the north-central part of the country. Sheffield has been famous for knives and other cutting tools since the Middle Ages.

London: did you know this?

London was founded by the Romans as Londinium. It started as a village that grew up around the first wooden bridge to span the river Thames. The Romans eventually built a wall around the city, probably to protect themselves. The wall also kept the village from growing large. Today, the 1-square-mile (2.6 sq km) area within the wall is the city of London. It’s the old financial heart of the city.

Theaters, shops, restaurants, museums, hotels, and the government are amazingly close together in central London. But the crowding is broken up by major parks. Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens make up the biggest green area. Buckingham Palace is located next to Green Park and St. James’s Park. Regent’s Park contains the famed London Zoo.