1. - Where is mum?
- She is cooking dinner.
2. Do British people write Christmas postcards every year?
3. Is it snowing now?
4. Don't take a dog for a walk every day.
5. What time does he get up in the morning?
6. Mary sometimes helps her mother with the housework.
7. John, why are you reading in bed? Switch off the light!
8. She always drinks strong coffee in the morning.
9. Listen! Somebody playing the piano out there.
10. My best friend is riding her horse now.
11. David always comes to school late.
12. They are not listening to her at the moment.
1. I don't often visit art galleries or museums as I would like.
2. I recently watched an online exhibition of the Tretyakov Gallery.
3. Yes, I like to read science fiction.
4. I know such outstanding scientists as Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Charles Darwin and many others.
5. I know such famous inventors as Mikhail Kalashnikov, Alexander Popov, Leonardo da Vinci and others.
6. Yes, I fully agree that computers have changed our lives, even our everyday lives.
7. We are aware of such possibilities of genetic engineering as genetic transformation, the transfer of foreign genes into the cells of plants, animals and microorganisms, the production of genetically modified organisms with new unique genetic properties.
8. I am against cloning people, because it is primarily unethical, secondly, people do not fully understand what the results may be, and thirdly, these technologies may end up in the wrong hands.
9. I do not know whether people will live longer in the future or not, on the one hand, medicine and technology are developing, on the other hand, such industries are developing that make a person very sedentary, dependent on various kinds of fast food, and so on. So I don't know.
10. Human intervention in nature will sooner or later lead to environmental disasters on a global scale, the depletion of resources, which will force people to urgently come up with new ways to live.
