The document summarizes the rules for using the present simple, present continuous, past simple, and past continuous tenses in English. It provides examples of how to form sentences using these tenses, including rules for spelling, negatives, and interrogatives. Key differences between the tenses are noted, such as the present simple describing daily routines while the present continuous describes temporary actions happening now.

1. PRESENT SIMPLE PRESENT CONTINUOUS
Always, usually, every day, in the Right now, at the moment, today...
morning, at two o’clock… Describe actions which are
Describe daily routines and happening now.
things that usually happen.
TO BE + V –ing
I, you, we, they play Am, is, are + reading
He, she , it plays
• Negative: I’m not, isn’t
rd
We add –s to the 3 person or aren’t reading
singular in affirmative
sentences, but not in negative • Interrogative: Am, Is or
and interrogative sentences. Are + subject + reading
Spelling rules: Spelling rules:
-y = -ies (plays, buys) play = playing
-ss, -ch, -sh, -x, -o = -es Write = writing
Have = has Run = running
• Negative: don’t /doesn’t  We use the PC with future
• Interrogative: Do /Does meaning to talk about
future plans
 She doesn’t like cartoons  I’m watching The Simpsons
PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTILUOUS
Last night, yesterday, when I was At seven o’clock yesterday evening I
ten, in 1995... was..., for hours...
Describe things that happened
in the past. Actions that were in progress
The past simple form is the at a specific moment in the
same for every person past
Regular verbs: -ed
Irregular verbs: have = had TO BE past + V –ing
Be: was/were Was / were + watching
Spelling rules: • Negative: wasn’t /weren’t
Listen = listened • Interrogative:
Live = lived Was/Were..?
Study = studied
Chat = chatted
 I was watching TV at ten
• Negative: didn’t o’clock yesterday evening.
• Interrogative: Did..?
 We were walking in the park
when it started to rain.
 Did you go to the cinema
yesterday?

2. PRESENT SIMPLE PRESENT CONTINUOUS
Always, usually, every day, in the Right now, at the moment, today...
morning, at two o’clock… Describe actions which are
Describe daily routines and happening now.
things that usually happen.
TO BE + V –ing
I, you, we, they play Am, is, are + reading
He, she , it plays
• Negative: I’m not, isn’t
rd
We add –s to the 3 person or aren’t reading
singular in affirmative
sentences, but not in negative • Interrogative: Am, Is or
and interrogative sentences. Are + subject + reading
Spelling rules: Spelling rules:
-y = -ies (plays, buys) play = playing
-ss, -ch, -sh, -x, -o = -es Write = writing
Have = has Run = running
• Negative: don’t /doesn’t  We use the PC with future
• Interrogative: Do /Does meaning to talk about
future plans
 She doesn’t like cartoons  I’m watching The Simpsons
PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTILUOUS
Last night, yesterday, when I was At seven o’clock yesterday evening I
ten, in 1995... was..., for hours...
Describe things that happened
in the past. Actions that were in progress
The past simple form is the at a specific moment in the
same for every person past
Regular verbs: -ed
Irregular verbs: have = had TO BE past + V –ing
Be: was/were Was / were + watching
Spelling rules: • Negative: wasn’t /weren’t
Listen = listened • Interrogative:
Live = lived Was/Were..?
Study = studied
Chat = chatted
 I was watching TV at ten
• Negative: didn’t o’clock yesterday evening.
• Interrogative: Did..?
 We were walking in the park
when it started to rain.
 Did you go to the cinema
yesterday?

3. PRESENT SIMPLE PRESENT CONTINUOUS
Always, usually, every day, in the Right now, at the moment, today...
morning, at two o’clock… Describe actions which are
Describe daily routines and happening now.
things that usually happen.
TO BE + V –ing
I, you, we, they play Am, is, are + reading
He, she , it plays
• Negative: I’m not, isn’t
rd
We add –s to the 3 person or aren’t reading
singular in affirmative
sentences, but not in negative • Interrogative: Am, Is or
and interrogative sentences. Are + subject + reading
Spelling rules: Spelling rules:
-y = -ies (plays, buys) play = playing
-ss, -ch, -sh, -x, -o = -es Write = writing
Have = has Run = running
• Negative: don’t /doesn’t  We use the PC with future
• Interrogative: Do /Does meaning to talk about
future plans
 She doesn’t like cartoons  I’m watching The Simpsons
PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTILUOUS
Last night, yesterday, when I was At seven o’clock yesterday evening I
ten, in 1995... was..., for hours...
Describe things that happened
in the past. Actions that were in progress
The past simple form is the at a specific moment in the
same for every person past
Regular verbs: -ed
Irregular verbs: have = had TO BE past + V –ing
Be: was/were Was / were + watching
Spelling rules: • Negative: wasn’t /weren’t
Listen = listened • Interrogative:
Live = lived Was/Were..?
Study = studied
Chat = chatted
 I was watching TV at ten
• Negative: didn’t o’clock yesterday evening.
• Interrogative: Did..?
 We were walking in the park
when it started to rain.
 Did you go to the cinema
yesterday?

4. PRESENT SIMPLE PRESENT CONTINUOUS
Always, usually, every day, in the Right now, at the moment, today...
morning, at two o’clock… Describe actions which are
Describe daily routines and happening now.
things that usually happen.
TO BE + V –ing
I, you, we, they play Am, is, are + reading
He, she , it plays
• Negative: I’m not, isn’t
rd
We add –s to the 3 person or aren’t reading
singular in affirmative
sentences, but not in negative • Interrogative: Am, Is or
and interrogative sentences. Are + subject + reading
Spelling rules: Spelling rules:
-y = -ies (plays, buys) play = playing
-ss, -ch, -sh, -x, -o = -es Write = writing
Have = has Run = running
• Negative: don’t /doesn’t  We use the PC with future
• Interrogative: Do /Does meaning to talk about
future plans
 She doesn’t like cartoons  I’m watching The Simpsons
PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTILUOUS
Last night, yesterday, when I was At seven o’clock yesterday evening I
ten, in 1995... was..., for hours...
Describe things that happened
in the past. Actions that were in progress
The past simple form is the at a specific moment in the
same for every person past
Regular verbs: -ed
Irregular verbs: have = had TO BE past + V –ing
Be: was/were Was / were + watching
Spelling rules: • Negative: wasn’t /weren’t
Listen = listened • Interrogative:
Live = lived Was/Were..?
Study = studied
Chat = chatted
 I was watching TV at ten
• Negative: didn’t o’clock yesterday evening.
• Interrogative: Did..?
 We were walking in the park
when it started to rain.
 Did you go to the cinema
yesterday?