1. ubiquity of english activity 1

Activity 3

Match the labels in the box and the sentences 1-12 below.
1. Present Simple 2. Present Perfect 3. Present Perfect Continuous 4. Past Perfect Continuous 5. Past Simple 6. Present Continuous 7. Past
Perfect 8. Future Simple 9. Future Perfect 10. Future with 'going to' 11. Future Continuous
12. Past Continuous

1. 
   Students are spending so much time on learning new words by heart.
   
2. 
   Sailors in the Mediterranean Sea used ‘lingua franca’ for interaction.
   
3. 
   They had researched the market carefully before they decided to open a new branch.
   
4. 
   Diamonds don’t have much intrinsic value and their price mostly depends on their scarcity.
   

5.I think they will explain everything precisely.
6.Saodat was reading her favorite ‘Harry Potter’ when her brother interrupted.
7.I have figured out 51 English words while coming to the university.

8. 
   The number of English speakers has been increasing recently.
   
9. 
   Consequently, Umar will be lying on the beach with his family next week.
   
10. 
    We had been confusing things for two days when they finally illuminated the difference.
    
11. 
    In my article I ’m going to run through some of the main points of the matter.
    
12. 
    Experts will surely have finished their work by the end of the next month
    

Activity 4

Read the descriptions a-к and decide which sentence in Ex. 5 they match.

1. 
   an action which is happening at the present moment.
   
2. 
   a finished past action which occurs at a specific moment in the past.
   
3. 
   talking about an action that is finished before another action in the past. This form is especially useful for giving reasons for a decision
   

that was made in the past.

4. 
   regular routines and habits.
   
5. 
   making a future prediction or express a decision about the future made at the moment.
   
6. 
   something that is happening at a precise moment in the past; an interrupted action. g. something which has happened up to the present moment.
   

8. 
   the duration of an activity that begins in the past and continues up to the present moment.
   
9. 
   discussing an activity that will be in progress at a specific point in future.
   
10. 
    expressing the duration of an activity up to another point in the past; stressing that a certain activity had been going on before something
    

important happened.

8. 
   speaking about future intentions or plans made before the present moment.