Для выражения отрицательного значения используется частица not, которая ставится после вспомогательного глагола. Вопросы конструируются путем постановки вспомогательного глагола перед подлежащим.
Task 1. Change the sentences into Present Continuous Passive:
| They are developing a new medicine in the research institute. A new medicine is being developed in the research institute. |
1. The social worker is referring the client to a more qualified mental health professional. 2. The social worker is using a notebook to record miscellaneous things about the client. 3. The social worker is collecting the social history of the client. 4. The psychologist is sending the client into a hypnotic state. 5. They are undertaking efforts to make him stop using drugs. 6. The psychotherapist is monitoring the client’s progress. 7. They are treating this child for attention deficit disorder (ADHD). 8. The doctor is questioning the patient to make a diagnosis. 9. The psychologist is explaining the risks of hypnotic therapy to the client. 10. The social worker is talking to the child involved at a follow-up visit. 11. The psychotherapist is discussing the treatment plan with the client. 12. They are carrying out a study to find out the most appropriate ways to handle such difficult cases.
Task 2. Answer the questions in Present Continuous Passive, using the given suggestions. Use there instead of the adverbial modifier of place:
| What is going on in the lecture hall? (deliver a lecture) – A lecture is being delivered. |
1. What is going on in the doctor’s office? (examine a patient) 2. What’s going on in the social services office? (counsel a client) 3. What is going on in Room 20? (examine students) 4. What is going on in the operating-room? (operate on a patient) 5. What is going on in the reading-room? (present a new book) 6. What is going on in the conference hall? (to hold a discussion) 7. What is going on in this room? (hold a family group counseling session) 8. What is going on in the gym? (hold competitions) 9. What is going on in the computer class? (install computer software) 10.What’s going on in the laboratory? (conduct experiments on mice)
Task 3. Change the sentences into Past Continuous Passive according to the given pattern:
| When we left the meeting, people were still asking questions. When we left the meeting, questions werestillbeing asked. |
1. When the psychologist entered the room, group participants were discussing problems associated with being isolated. 2. When she left the room, the social worker was still interviewing the child. 3. When the social worker came to see me at my home, I was putting the child to bed. 4. When my wife arrived home from work, I was cooking dinner. 5. When the psychotherapist started a family group counseling session, the participants were still discussing some family matters. 6. When the social work assistant came into the social services office, the social worker was still making corrections to the client’s records. 7. When the client left the social worker’s office, the social worker was still writing something in the client’s case history. 8. When we left the lecture hall, the lecturer was still explaining some ideas to the most interested students. 9) When I saw this terminally ill client last, he was still arranging some of his financial and legal affairs. 10) When the social worker visited this terminally ill patient last, she was still making up a decision on appointing someone to act on her behalf in case that she was incapacitated.
Task 4. Answer the questions in Past Continuous Passive, using the given pattern:
| Had the professor already examined the students when you looked into the room? – No, they were still being examined. |
1) Had the social worker already discussed the plan with the client when the assistant entered the office? 2) Had the doctor already informed the patient about him being terminally ill when the patient’s husband arrived? 3) Had the psychologist already counseled the terminally ill client when his relatives came to pick him up? 4) Had the social worker already visited all his clients when a tough working day was over? 5) Had the lecturer already highlighted all the important issues when the bell rang? 6) Had the client answered all the psychologist’s questions when a cell phone rang during the therapy session? 7) Had the lecturer already presented all the slides when the lecture was over? 8) Had the doctor already explained the details about my condition when the nurse came into the doctor’s office? 9) Had the social worker already provided assistance to his terminally ill client for the purchasing of the required medications when the client’s condition aggravated? 10) Had the social worker already arranged the enrollment of the terminally ill client in a hospice program when the client was hospitalized?