🎯 Lesson goal
3 minRoutine
We normally check pending payments first.
Present Simple
Temporary / now
We are using a backup route this week.
Present Continuous
Finished event
The gateway failed at 3:20.
Past Simple
Past process
We were checking the logs when the alert appeared.
Past Continuous
🃏 Task 1 — Vocabulary + Spoken Chunks
8 minИсходный словарь сохранён. Новые operational words и разговорные чанки тоже остаются.
🧩 Task 2 — Introductory Constructions to Memorise
10 minЭти конструкции помогают начать ответ, уточнить позицию и выиграть время. Их нужно учить как готовые блоки.
💬 Task 3 — Choose the Natural Reply
6 min⭐ Grammar Map — Four Tenses
9 minPresent Simple
Routine / system / factDo you check it?
The system doesn't send alerts every time.
Present Continuous
Now / temporary / changing situationWe are using Provider B this week.
The failure rate is increasing.
Past Simple
Finished past eventPast Continuous
Past process / background📘 Past Simple — Detailed Table
8 min| Type | Formula | Payments example | Русский смысл |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statement | S + V2 | We contacted the provider at 3:25. | Завершённое действие. |
| Negative | S + did not + V1 | We didn't find a duplicate charge. | После did — базовая форма. |
| Yes/No | Did + S + V1? | Did the gateway recover? | Did забирает прошедшее время. |
| WH-question | WH + did + S + V1? | When did the outage start? | Спрашиваем о законченном событии. |
📙 Past Continuous — Detailed Table
8 min| Type | Formula | Payments example | Русский смысл |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statement | S + was/were + V-ing | We were checking the logs. | Процесс шёл в тот момент. |
| Negative | S + wasn't/weren't + V-ing | The provider wasn't monitoring that route. | Процесс не происходил. |
| Yes/No | Was/Were + S + V-ing? | Were you reviewing the IDs? | Спрашиваем о процессе. |
| WH-question | WH + was/were + S + V-ing? | What were you doing when the alert appeared? | Что происходило в момент события? |
while часто соединяет параллельные процессы: While we were checking the logs, the provider was testing the route.
🇷🇺 → 🇬🇧 Task 4 — Translation First: Determine the Tense
18 minСначала выберите время, затем переведите. Проверяется и время, и ключевая структура.
🧠 Task 5 — Hard Mixed Grammar: Russian Context
15 minВыберите английскую форму, которая точно передаёт русскую ситуацию. Некоторые предложения специально содержат ловушки: usually + temporary situation, at 3:00 + process, when + interruption.
🔄 Task 6 — Contrast Pairs: Translate Both
15 minВ каждой паре меняется только временная логика. Переведите обе фразы так, чтобы разница была очевидна.
🔍 Task 7 — Mixed Error Hunt
10 min💬 Task 8 — Translate the Workplace Dialogue
16 minПереведите реплики, используя вводные конструкции и разговорные чанки.
🧾 Task 9 — Translation Lab: 20 Mixed Sentences
22 minОсновной блок самостоятельной грамматической практики. Все четыре времени смешаны.
📖 Task 10 — Reading & Translation: A Busy Payment Incident
16 minYesterday, the situation became more serious. At 3:20 p.m., the monitoring system detected a sharp increase in declined payments. We were reviewing affected transaction IDs when the first provider alert appeared. I said, “I'm on it,” and contacted the provider immediately. While their engineer was investigating the root cause, we tested a workaround and moved part of the traffic to a backup route. As a result, the error rate dropped twenty minutes later, and the team resolved the remaining issue before 4:30.
Today the main integration is working normally again, but we are still watching it closely. For now, we are keeping part of the traffic on the backup route. A colleague has asked me for an update, so I said, “Give me a minute. Let me check the latest status.”
🧩 Task 11 — Tense Hunt + Translate the Evidence
10 min🏁 Final Translation Challenge
10 minПереведите четыре предложения. Каждое должно быть в другом времени.