3:15. Read the highlighted sentences and answer the questions. a) When is the action happening in each sentence? b) What is the form of the Present Continuous Tense? c) What time phrases do we use in the Present Continuous?
1. Does he go to school? Where does he go? Who goes to school? Does he go school or to the kindergarten? He goes to schoo, doesn't he?
2. Are they reading now? What are they doing now? Who is reading now? Are they reading or writing now? They are reading now, aren't they?
3. Has she done her homework? What has she done? Who has done her homework? Has she done her homework or her presentation? She has done her homework, hasn't she?
4. Have they been doing sport? What have they been doing? Who has been doing sport? Have they been doing sport or homework? They have been doing sport, haven't they?
In Search of Good English Food by Verona Paul and Jason Winner 1. How come it is so difficult to find English food in England? In Greece you eat Greek food, in France French food, in Italy Italian food, but in England, in any High Street in the Land, it is easier to find Indian and Chinese restaurants than English ones. In London you can eat Thai, Portuguese, Turkish, Lebanese, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Swiss, Swedish, Spanish, and Italian — but where are the English restaurants? 2. It is not only in restaurants that foreign dishes are replacing traditional British food. In every supermarket, sales of pasta, pizza and poppadoms are booming. Why has this happened? What is wrong with the cooks of Britain that they prefer cooking pasta to potatoes? Why do the British choose to eat lasagne instead of shepherd’s pie? Why do they now like cooking in wine and olive oil? But perhaps it is a good thing. After all, this is the end of the 20th century and we can get ingredients from all over the world in just a few hours. Anyway, wasn’t English food always disgusting and tasteless? Wasn’t it always boiled to death and swimming in fat? The answer to these questions is a resounding ‘No’, but to understand this, we have to go back to before World War II. 3. The British have in fact always imported food from abroad. From the time of the Roman invasion foreign trade was a major influence on British cooking. English kitchens, like the English language, absorbed ingredients from all over the world — chickens, rabbits, apples, and tea. All of these and more were successfully incorporated into British dishes. Another important influence on British cooking was of course the weather. The good old British rain gives us rich soil and green grass, and means that we are able to produce some of the finest varieties of meat, fruit and vegetables, which don’t need fancy sauces or complicated reci pes to disguise their taste. 4. However, World War II changed everything. Wartime women had to forget 600 years of British cooking, learn to do without foreign
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