Complete the sentences using either the Present Continuous Tense or to be going to:

The day after tomorrow I (go) to the cinema with my friends.
This summer we (work) in a café.
He (meet) her at 5 o’clock.
I (make) a project about whales.
My mum (visit) my Granny after work.

Form questions using the words given:
F. E. Mary / meet Peter? When is Mary meeting Peter?

Nick / go on holiday?
Mary and Sam / go to a football match?
They / have a picnic?
She / visit her friend?
Your parents / have dinner with your grandparents?

Complete the sentences about yourself paying special attention to the articles and prepositions:

She likes playing volleyball (в свободное время).
We are meeting (у меня дома) (в 7 часов).
I am not doing this work (в конце недели).
They are going to go on holiday (на будущий год).
Sam is having a party (в воскресенье днем

The smartphone
Nowadays smartphones define the way people connect to the rest of the world. How did it start?
On the 16th of August 1994, IBM released a personal communicator, which became the modern smartphone. It was capable of making phone calls, faxing, text messaging and emailing.
It was a prized possession because this device also included a touch screen.
It had a clock, calendar and some games. But this wonderful device was just too advanced for its time. The market was not yet ready for such a technological innovation. Faster networks, browsers and applications were needed to release its full potential. In 2000, Ericsson was the first to introduce the word “smartphone” for its amazing R380 mobile phone. . This device was a modification of a lightweight flip phone. The magazine Popular Science called the Ericsson R380 smartphone one of the most important achievement in science and technology.

1. Alexander Pushkin was born in 1799 (seventeen ninety-nine).
He died in 1837 (eighteeen thirty-seven).
2. Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 (eighteen twenty-eight).
He died in 1910 (nineteen hundred ten).
3. Mikhail Lermontov was born in 1814 (eighteen fourteen).
He died in 1841 (eighteen forty-one).
4. Anton Chekhov was born in 1860 (eighteen sixty). 
He died in 1904 (nineteen hundred four).
5. Ivan Krylov was born in 1769 (seventeen sixty-nine).
He died in 1844 (eighteen fourty-four).
6. Ivan Turgenev was born in 1818 (eighteen eighteen).
He died in 1883 (eighteen eighty-three).