When did you receive it?
Discuss in the same w av:
to hear the news; to see the results o f the experiment;
to meet a
supervisor; to read sth. by a prominent scientist; to show one’s paper to a scientific advisor; to invite
foreign scientists to the conference; to introduce the guests to the members o f one’s
department; to
finish collecting materials for one’s thesis; to decide what to do after exams.
Exercise 5. Respond to the requests as in the model. Use Present Perfect.
Model:
- Please, invite Dr. Smith to our seminar.
- I’ve already invited him.
1.
Please, introduce Dr. Smith to Dr. Petrov. 2. Please, write a letter to our colleagues from
London. They are waiting for it. 3. Finish your paper by Friday, please. 4. Will you invite any
foreign scientists to the conference? 5. Please, discuss this problem with your colleagues. 6.
Change
the title o f your article, please. 7. Will you carry out the test tomorrow? 8. I offer you to read this
book. It’ll be useful for your work. 9. I think it would be nice for you to look through these fresh
newspapers. 10. You are kindly requested to take these books back to the library, please.
Exercise 6. Answer the questions using Present Perfect. Use time expressions:
during the few
past months (years, weeks), fo r a long time now, fo r some years (months, weeks), since last year,
since I began working here, etc.
Model:
- Helen is your friend, isn’t she?
- Yes, we have been friends for years.
1.
You are a regular customer at the National library, aren’t you? 2.
Your friend is concerned
with the religious problem, isn’t he? 3. You are interested in the problem o f psychology, aren’t you?
4. Some Asian countries are facing serious economic problems, aren’t they? 5. The graduates o f
your group are busy with translation
o f specialty texts, aren’t they? 6. Your advisor is at the
conference now, isn’t he? 7. I heard you were carrying out investigation in the field o f sociology,
weren’t you? 8. You are working on a problem
in the field o f history, aren’t you? 9. Archeologists
o f the History faculty are dealing with archeological digs, aren’t they?
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