TENSES
TENSES
TENSES
REVIEW
PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE vs SIMPLE PRESENT
I am doing I do
past now future past now future
Example: Example:
1. Listen to those people. What 1. Excuse me, do you speak English?
language are they speaking?
2.The water is boiling. Can you turn it 2. Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
off?
PRESENT SIMPLE
Present Simple is also used to talk about general
plan/schedule/timetable.
EX: I should wake up early tomorrow. My plane departs at 04.30
a.m.
PRESENT PERFECT vs
PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS
PRESENT PERFECT PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS
Function: To express an activity Function:To express activity started in
started in the past and has been the past, still in progress now, and
finished before now. We are interested might continue in the future. We are
in the result/achievement of the interested in the activity.
activity.
Example: Example:
1. Somebody has smoked all my 1. She has been smoking too much
cigarettes. The package is empty. recently.
2. Mary has written ten letters 2. Mary is still writing letters. She has
today. been writing letters all day.
3. They have played tennis three 3. They have been playing tennis
times this week. since 2 o’clock.
4. The car is OK now. I have 4. My hands are very dirty. I have
repaired it. been repairing the car.
SIMPLE PAST vs PAST CONTINUOUS
Example: Example:
1. I work in a travel agency now. 1. This time last year I was living in
Before that I worked in a shop. Brazil.
2. The police stopped me on my 2. What were you doing at 10
way home last night. o’clock last night?
3. She passed her examination
because she studied very hard.
SIMPLE PAST vs PAST CONTINUOUS
Example:
1. I was walking home when I met Dave. (=in the middle of walking
home)
Example:
1. The house was dirty. They had
not cleaned it for weeks.
2. We weren’t hungry. We had just
had lunch.
PAST PERFECT vs PAST SIMPLE
Sometimes, Past Perfect and Past Simple are used in a sentence.
In this case, actions expressed by Past Perfect happened before the
Past Simple.
Example:
1. When I arrived at your house, Tom had already gone to
airport.
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past present
"For five minutes" and "for two weeks" are both durations
which can be used with the Past Perfect Continuous.
WILL GOING TO
Function: will is used when we decide Function: (be) going to is used when
to do something at the time of we have already decided / planned to
speaking. The speaker has not decided do something.
before.
Example: Example:
1. A: Let’s have a party. 1. Sue and I have decided to have a
B: Cool. I will surely come! party. We are going to invite lots
of people.
WILL GOING TO
We use will if the prediction is based We use going to if the prediction is
on one’s personal opinion. based on the present condition/fact.
Example: Example:
1. Tom will probably arrive at 1. Look at those black clouds. It is
about 8 o’clock. going to rain.
2. I think Ann will like the present 2. I feel terrible. I think I am going
we bought for her. to be sick.
RUN THE WORDS
1. I (learn) _____ English for seven years now.
2. Last year, however, I ____ (not, work) hard enough
for English, that's why my marks ____ (be) not
really that good then.
3. As I (pass, want) _____ my English exam
successfully next year, I (study) _____ harder this
term.
4. Last summer holidays, my parents (send) _____
me on a language course to London.
5. It (be) _____ great and I (think) _____ I (learn)
_____ a lot.
6. Before I (go) _____ to London, I (not / enjoy)
_____ learning English.
7. But while I (do) _____ the language course, I
(meet) _____ lots of young people from all over
the world.
8. There I (notice) _____ how important it (be)
_____ to speak foreign languages nowadays.
9. Now I (have) _____ much more fun learning
English than I (have) _____ before the course.
10. At the moment I (revise) _____ English
grammar.
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