42. Ask and answer these questions in pairs.
1. What were you doing at 11 yesterday evening?
2. What was your friend doing then?
3. What were you doing 5 minutes ago?
4. Think of a situation when someone couldn’t reach you because your number was busy. Who were you talking to?
5. What were you talking about?
6. What was your mother/roommate doing when you got home yesterday?
7. Where were you living in 2018?
8. Was it raining when you got up yesterday?
43. Match the two halves of the sentences below. Translate the sentences paying attention to the use of Past Tense Forms.
| 1.The participants of the conference declared that our planet Earth | a. was accelerating fast. |
| 2.They recognized that the climate crisis | b. was facing a climate emergency. |
| 3. India and Australia were the only two G20 countries that were not considering | c. exposed to climate change economically. |
| 4.All the lack of action was leaving people | d. about their performance and contradicting their own government’s information. |
| 5.He said that the leadership of the country was effectively telling lies | e. policies to price greenhouse gas emissions, the report said. |
*44. Open the brackets using either Past Simple or Past Continuous.
1. The speakers of the conference (discuss) the environmental issues when our delegation (arrive). 2. While media (try) to unite disconnected issues, UN (declare) that the problems of sustainable (устойчивое) development could be adequately resolved. 3. When the first environmental conference successfully (identify) the range of problems for considering, a continuing global environmental debate (begin). 4. The human influence (create) the simmering (тлеющий) conflict between the environment and development throughout the 20th century. 5. While the levels of carbon dioxide (increase), the ocean was becoming more acidic (кислый). 6. In his research the ecologist proved that climate change (destroy) slowly coral reef ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef. 7. The authorities (власти) (declare) yesterday that we were in the zone of ecological disaster and that the situation (become) worse because more pollution (come) from non-point (неточечных) sources such as agricultural runoff, wind-blown debris, and dust.