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Present and past tenses
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Present and past forms
PRESENT TENSES
Genially
Can you identify them?
Present
SIMPLE CONTINUOUS PERFECT SIMPLE PERFECT CONTINUOUS
PRESENT TENSE USE
Perfect
Continuous
1. Experiences that happened at an unspecfied time.
Simple
To describe actions taking place NOW, at the moment of speaking.
Daily routines General information
Have you ever seen a ghost?
Julia goes to dance lessons every other day.
2. Action that started in the past and continues up to the present.
The students are paying attention right now.
Raquel has 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 TENSE USE
Perfect continuous
Express long actions that started in the past and continue until now.
I have been living in Ireland for almost 4 years.
Express recent actions that have clear evidence or results now.
Her eyes are red because she has been crying all night
Typically used for shorter, temporary situations.
Have they been reading a book this week?
Were they working when they met her?
Did you see it?
PRESENT TENSE USE
Perfect simple
Simple
Continuous
subject + VERB * + COMPLEMENT * HE, SHE, IT - VERB + "s"
subject + HAS/HAVE + PAST PART
subject + AM/IS/ARE + GERUND (ING)
They are paying attention..
Barney has bought a new car.
The Sun's gravity holds the solar system together.
subject + + HAS/HAVE + NOT+ P.P.
subject + AM/IS/ARE + NOT+ GERUND
subject + DOES / DO + NOT+ VERB (doesn't / don't)
He hasn't driven it yet.
The dog isn't running.
The sun doesn't orbit the planets.
HAS/HAVE + subject + P.P.
AM/IS/ARE + subject + GERUND
DOES / DO + subject + VERB
Have Barney and Ted picked Tracy up?
Are they having fun?
Do the planets orbit the sun?
PRESENT TENSE USE
Perfect continuous
subject + HAVE/HAS + BEEN + GERUND (ING)
He has been waiting for ages.
subject + HAVE/HAS + NOT+ BEEN + GERUND
He hasn't been doing anything important
HAVE/HAS + subject + BEEN + GERUND
Have they been calling you?
Were they working when they met her?
Did you see it?
CLUE WORDS
Present perfect
Present simple
Present continuous
* For * Since * Just * Already + * Yet - ? * Ever
* Adverbs of frequency (always, sometimes, never...) * Days of the week + "s": SaturdayS, TuesdayS * Every * Time-LY: weekly, daily...
* now, * at the moment, * these days, * at present.
PAST TENSES
Genially
How can we differentiate them?
Past
SIMPLE CONTINUOUS PERFECT SIMPLE PERFECT CONTINOUS
PAST TENSE USE
Perfect simple
Continuous
Simple
To mention a past action that happened before another past action.
1. Two past actions happening at the same time.
1. Refers to an action or situation that is finished. 2. Series of events in the past.
He was dancing on the stage while everyone was watching the show.
He had arrived there before she appeared.
Javier grew up in Hervás.
Perfect continuous
2. A "long action" interrupted by "short action".
Past action in progress , before a period of time. Emphazises the lenght of the action.
When he was a teenager, he discovered comedy and got obsessed with it, later he dropped out of School to persue his career.
While he was dancing , Paula kicked him.
He had been waiting for 3 hours before she arrived.
PAST TENSE USE
Continuous
Perfect simple
Simple
subject + WAS/WERE + GERUND (ING)
SUbject + HAD + PAST PARTiCIPLE
He had had a bad day before getting on the plane.
John was eating breakfast at 7am.
subject + VERB IN PAST (ED / IRREGULAR VERBS)
subject + WAS/WERE + NOT+ GERUND
The bridge collapsed after the earthquake.
John wasn't eating breakfast at 7am.
subject + HAD + NOT+ P.P.
He hadn't taken his medicine.
subject + DID + NOT+ VERB BASE (didn't)
WAS/WERE + subject + GERUND
It didn't kill anyone.
HAD + subject + P.P.
Was John eating breakfast at 7am?
Had he travelled on a plane before?
DID + subject + VERB
Did you see it?
PAST TENSE USE
Perfect continuous
subject + HAD + BEEN + GERUND (ING)
He had been waiting for ages.
subject + HAD + NOT+ BEEN + GERUND
He hadn't been doing anything important
HAD + subject + BEEN + GERUND
Had he been calling you?
Were they working when they met her?
Did you see it?