Tenses review.

The review of

The Tenses

INDEX

Present Simple

Present Perfect Simple

Future Simple

Present Continuous

Present Perfect Continuous

Be going to

10

Past Perfect Simple

11

Future Continuous

Past Simple

Future Continuous

12

Past Continuous

Past Perfect Continuous

Present Simple

We go to the cinema once a month.

We use Present Simple:

1. Always true (Flowers bloom in spring.)
2. Pernament situations (I live in London)
3. Short actions now (He kicks the ball and scores the goal!)
4. Habits (I go swimming once a month)
5. Future timetables (This train leaves at 6)
6. Future clauses (I won't go out until it stops raining).

Present Continuous

Temporary / annoying habits (He's eating a lot these days You're always loosing your keys!).

Unfinished actions now (I'm working at the moment).

Temporary situations (I'm reading an interesting book now).

Definite future plans (I'm meeting my friends tomorrow).

Past Simple

*Finished time ( I went to the cinema to days ago). *Finished time period (Leonardo painted The Mona Lisa). *Details of news (I've hurt my leg. I fell off a ladder). *Actions in stories (He sat down and aske her a question).

Past Continuous

Past Habits She was singing all the time.

Overlapping actions (+ Past Simple) When I was taking the shower the phone rang.

Emphasis of length of action I was playing computer games all day.

Story Background The bird was singing and the sun was shining.

Present Perfect Simple

Recent events The Prime Minister has given a speech.

Life experience I've been to Paris.

Present results I've broken my leg!

How long I've known her since 2000

Unfinished time word I haven't seen you this month.

Present Perfect Continuous

*How long (I've been living in Warsaw for five years). *Present result (I've been running !) * Temporary situations (I've been reading a lot recently).

Past Perfect Simple

Actions Finished before another past action (+Past Simple) When we arrived, the film had started.

Past Perfect Simple

How long to a point in the past (When he graduated, he had been in London for six years).

Unreal things in the past (I wish I had gone earlier).

Past Perfect Continuous

How long to a point in the past She had been working at that company for a year when she got promoted.

Result at a time in the past The pavement was wet. It had been raining.

Future Simple

Promises, requests, refusals, offers (I promise, I will not tell anyone about your secret!)

Future predition (I will travel around the World!)

Future conditionals (If it doesn't rain, we'll go to the park).

Plans made at the moment of speaking (So, I will bring some friends and we can make a party!).

10

Be going to

*Plans and intentions (I'm going to buy some milk).

*Future preditions (The sky is getting darker, it's going to rain).

11

Future Continuous

Overlapping action

Future as a matter of course

The goverment will be making a statement later.

I'll be waiting when you arrive.

12

Future Perfect Simple

How long to a point in the future (When we get married, I'll have known Jack for ten years).

Action finished before a point in the future (By ten o'clock, I will have finished my homework).

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