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PRESENT AND PAST TENSES

Coral Estévez

Created on September 23, 2023

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REVIEW

Present and past forms

PRESENT TENSES

Can you identify them?

PRESENT

SIMPLE CONTINUOUS PERFECT

PRESENT TENSES USE

Perfect

Continuous (Progressive)

Simple

1. Experiences that happened at an unspecffied time.

Daily routines

Have you ever seen a ghost?

To describe actions taking place NOW, at the moment of speaking.

Julia goes to dance lessons every other day.

2. Action that started in the past and continues up to the present.

SpongeBob Squarepants is drying his hair.

General information

Raquelhas studied in a village school for 7 years.

The earth is the 3rd planet from the sun.

3. Past actions with a result in the present.

I've lost my cellphone so I need to buy a new one.

PRESENT TENSES STRUCTURES

Perfect

Continuous (Progressive)

Simple

+ HAS/HAVE + PAST PART

+ VERB * + COMPLEMENT * HE, SHE, IT - VERB + "s"

+ AM/IS/ARE + GERUND (ING)

Barney has bought a new car.

The Sun's gravity holds the solar system together.

They are dancing.

+ HAS/HAVE + NOT+ P.P.

+ DOES / DO + NOT+ VERB (doesn't / don't)

+ AM/IS/ARE + NOT+ GERUND

He hasn't driven it yet.

The dog isn't running.

The sun doesn't orbit the planets.

HAS/HAVE + + P.P.

AM/IS/ARE + + GERUND

DOES / DO + + VERB

Have Barney and Ted picked Tracy up?

Are they having fun?

Do the planets orbit the sun?

CLUE WORDS

SIMPLE PRESENT

PRESENTPERFECT

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

* Adverbs of frequency (always, sometimes, never...) * Days of the week + "s": SaturdayS, TuesdayS * Every * Time-LY: weekly, daily...

* For * Since * Just * Already + * Yet - ? * Ever ?

* now, * at the moment, * these days, * at present.

PAST TENSES

How can we differentiate them?

PAST

SIMPLE CONTINUOUS PERFECT SIMPLE PERFECT CONTINUOUS

PAST TENSES USE

Perfect

Continuous (Progressive)

Simple

To mention a past action that happened before another past action.

1. Refers to an action or situation that is finished.

1. Two past actions happening at the same time.

He had arrived there before she appeared.

Javier grew up in Hervás.

He was dancing on the stage while everyone was watching the show.

2. Series of events in the past.

Perfect Continuous

When he was a teenager, he discovered comedy and got obsessed with it, later he dropped out of School to persue his career

Past action in progress , before a period of time. Emphazises the lenght of the action.

2. A "long action" interrupted by "short action".

While he was dancing , Paula kicked him.

He had been waiting for 3 hours before she arrived.

PAST TENSES STRUCTURES

Perfect

Continuous (Progressive)

Simple

+ HAD + PAST PARTiCIPLE

+ VERB IN PAST (ED / IRREGULAR VERBS)

He had had a bad day before getting on the plane.

+ WAS/WERE + GERUND (ING)

The bridge collapsed after the earthquake.

Sully was helping Boo.

+ HAD + NOT+ P.P.

+ DID + NOT+ VERB BASE (didn't

WAS/WERE + NOT+ GERUND

He hadn't taken his medicine.

They weren't trying to hurt her.

It didn't kill anyone.

HAD + + P.P.

WAS/WERE + + GERUND

DID + + VERB

Had he travelled on a plane before?

Were they working when they met her?

Did you see it?

PAST TENSES STRUCTURES

Perfect Continuous

+ HAD + BEEN + GERUND (ING)

He had been waiting for ages.

+ HAD + NOT+ BEEN + GERUND

He hadn't been doing anything important

HAD + + BEEN + GERUND

Had he been calling you?

CLUE WORDS

SIMPLEPAST

PRESENTPERFECT

PAST PERFECT / CONTINUOUS

PAST CONTINUOUS

* Ago * In (past time) * Yesterday * Last

* Before * After * 2 actions, one before the other. Ever. For, since

* While * When

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