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PRESENT AND PAST TENSES
Coral Estévez
Created on September 23, 2023
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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?