Ex 1 Read and translate the text, inserting the verb “to be” in correct form:
We learn foreign languages
My name ____ Petrov. I live in the centre of Moscow. I work at the Ministry of Foreign Trade. I ____ an engineer and I ____ also a student. Many engineers in our Ministry learn foreign languages. I learn English. We have our English in the morning.
We ____ at a lesson now. Jane ____ standing at the blackboard. She ____ writing an English sentence. We ____ not writing. We ____ looking at the blackboard. We don’t often write in class. Sometimes we have dictations. During the lesson we read our text-book and do a lot of exercises. We don’t often speak Russian in class. We speak English to our teacher. We usually speak Russian after classes.
My wife ____ an economist. She works at the Ministry of Foreign Trade too. She goes to the office every day. My wife doesn’t learn English. She already knows English very well. She reads very many English books, magazines and newspapers. At the office she sometimes writes letters to foreign firms. She often translates telegrams from English into Russian and from Russian into English.
My wife ____ also a student. She learns German and is doing very well. She usually gets good marks and is always in time for the lessons. She likes languages very much and ____ going to learn French next year. My wife and I usually go home together. We do our homework in the evening: we learn the new words, read texts and do exercises. We also revise grammar rules. We sometimes speak English at home. We speak about our work and our lessons.
