1. Present perfect continuous tense
2. Past perfect continuous tense
3. Future continuous tense
4. Future perfect continuous tense
CAUSATIVE VERBS: HAVE / GET SOMETHING DONE
Have something done and Get something done are both used to refer to actions which are done forthe subject rather than by the subject. Causative verbs are used instead of passive verbs to show that the subject causes the action to be done.
1.Have something done
I don´t know how to repair cars, so I´m having mine repaired at the garage round the corner.
2.Get something done
I really must get my eyes tested. I´m sure I need glasses.
Get your hair cut!
NOTE: The differences between have and get something done are that have is slightly moreformal than get, and that get is more frequent than have in the imperative form.
NON-CAUSATIVE USES OF HAVE AND GET
Have and get are also used to refer to events which happened to someone, but were outside theircontrol.
After being late for work every day for two weeks, Billy had his pay reduced. I stood so close to the fire that I got my legs burnt.
Exercises
Change the sentences into the Passive form following the example given.
Example:
| • Someone is going to repair my car. • I’m going to have my car repaired. |
Someone is going to…
| 1. paint my house for me. | 6. send my baggage to my hotel. |
| 2. clean my windows. | 7. dry clean my suit. |
| 3. mend my shoes. | 8. test my eyes for me. |
| 4. cut my grass for me. | 9. take my photographs. |
| 5. manicure my nails. | 10. repair my watch. |
Use the causative construction for the following sentences.
a) No one can renew her season tickets
b) She didn't write the book. Someone did it for her.
c) Someone redecorated Susan's house
d) The painter is painting Karen's house
e)Someone is cooking the meal for him
f) His hair must be cut
g) Our TV needs to be repaired
h)Someone stole my car last night
i)Her sofa is broken. It must be mended
Vocabulary
Look at the map below and answer the questions
-Which country’s map is it?
-What countries does it border on?
-What is the capital of Kazakhstan?
-Who is the head of the state?
-What large cities of Kazakhstan do you know?
-What do you think, what are we going to speak about?
2. As you know each country has its own symbols. Do you know the symbols of the republic of Kazakhstan?
Let’s read and translate the information about the symbols of Kazakhstan.
National Flag of the Republic of Kazakhstan is a piece of right-angled cloth of sky-blue colour with a picture of a golden sun with its 32 rays in the center, under them - a soaring steppe eagle. Flagstaff has vertical line with national ornament. The picture of sun, its rays, eagle and ornament are of golden colour.
National Emblem of the Republic of Kazakhstan is a picture of a shanyrak on a blue background, from which uyks like sun rays are being radiated in framing of wings of mythical horses. At the bottom of the emblem there is an inscription «Kazakhstan». The National Emblem of the Republic of Kazakhstan is of two colours: golden and blue-and-sky-blue.