2 Find three more examples of the present continuous in the reading texts on page 20. STUDY STRATEGY O Finding spelling rules 3 Write the -ing form of the verbs. Check your answers in the text on page 20. Then complete the spelling rules with words 1-6. 6 5 look 1 work 2 sit 3 live 4 have 6 put O RULES 1 Most verbs: add-ing: working, 2 Verbs that end in -e: delete -e and add -ing: 3 Verbs that end in a short vowel and a consonant: double the consonant and add
1. I prefer to travel by horse and by train 2. I'm very scared to use cars and aeroplanes 3. In my country average lifespan is about 70 years 4. I can't do a lot to help smb 5. I'd love to live in the countryside 6. to be full of huge blocks of flats. 7. I want to be far apart from each other. 8. It's take a long span of time to communicate by writing to each other. 9. I don't like to communicate by telephone. 10. I don't want it to be a very major change in my life. 11. this invention will take place one hundred years in the future
1. The book is..on/in the table. 2. The lamp is..on.. the table. 3. The girl is...at the table. 4. The man is...on the chair. 5. The book is...in the bag. 6. The pencil is...under/on the desk. 7. My house is ...in the street. 8. The blackboard is ...in the classroom. 9. The chair is ...by/at the table. 10. We sit ...at the table. 11. There is a lamp ...near/on the desk. 12. Please, sit down ...at the table. 13. A sport ground is ...behind our school. 14. Pushkin street is ...between Lenin street and Sadovaya street. 15. We have lunch ...between 11 o'clock and 12 o'clock. 16. The bridge is ...over/across the Don River.
Study strategy
1. work - working
2. sit - sitting
3. live - living
4. have - having
5. look - looking
6. put - putting
Rules
1. looking
2. living, having
3. sitting, putting