In the 15th century England started to establish overseas colonies. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. By the end of the 18th century the British Empire had grown quite extensive. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… The British Empire had colonies in India, Africa, the Carribeans, Middle East and North America. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. In 1922 the British Empire covered almost half of the earth and about 1/5 of the world’s population. ………………………………………………………………………………………………… By the time of the First World War the British Empire had become a strong economic power. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… After the Second World War advertisement and technology gave rise to mass communication and media American movies, TV, music spread all over the world. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Today, over 96% of all articles in magazines are written in English. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. In the Internet most people communicate in English. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Everybody in the world speak English very well. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. English will be the International language forever. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Chinese will hardly ever become the next International language in the nearest future. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

1. My brother works at a research Institute.He has worked there for five years since 1996. He is working on his thesis now. He has been working on his thesis for a year. Now he is making his experiments at the laboratory. 2. Professor M. takes courses in English and American Literature. He knows six foreign languages. He speaks and reads four languages fluently. At present he is learning Japanese. He has been learning it for some months. 3. What are you doing here? — I am translating an article about Shakespeare's life. — I think you have been translating  it for a long time. — Yes, this article is rather long and difficult. I have been translating it for a few days. Usually I translate from English into Russian quite quickly. But as for this article I have been working on it since Wednesday. 4. What do you usually do in the evenings? I usually do my homework,read,sometimes I watch television. Now I am writing a report. I have been working on it for an hour and a half. 5. Don't go out, it is raining now. It has been raining since early morning. It often rains here in autumn.
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1. Nick was writing a letter when I came. He had been writting a letter for an hour when I entered. Nick did not write the letter yesterday and he had not been writting it before I came. He had just finished to write his letter. 2. Kate made her report last week. And I had prepared my report this week. I was making my report when you entered the room. I had been writing it for about an hour when you came. 3. It rained on Saturday and it was raining all day yesterday. And it had rained this week too. It had already been raining for several hours when I went out, but it had stopped raining before you came. 4. Who were you talking to yesterday when I met you in the street? I was talking to my friend. He came from St. Petersburg two days ago. We had already been talking for 15 minutes when you saw us. 5. Ann left the University,took a bus and went home. When she arrived home her son had prepared(was preparing) his homework. He had been working for two hours when mother came. While Ann was cooking supper her son was studying. They had had supper before they went to bed.

So I'm going to tell you what I have been doing on my holidays. Our holidays lasted for two weeks they were the Christmas holidays. On holidays we were celebrating new year with my family. We had a Christmas tree and a lot of presents. We also had guests who loved our house and made a tong of pictures of it. After celebrating Christmas I with my family went to another city in Russia. We also had friends there whose house we were living in. After another week we went back and it was only one day left of my cool holiday. That day I was preparing for school I went to a shop and bought some copybooks pens and pencils and the next day was suddenly a school day