Tiempos Verbales

1. Tiempos Verbales
Cabudare, Agosto de 2015
UNIVERSIDAD YACAMBÚ
FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES
DEPARTAMENTO DE ESTUDIOS A DISTANCIA
LAPSO 2015 - 2
Participante: Flor Pérez
Expediente: HPS-151-00360V
Asignatura: Idioma Básico Intensivo

2. With the simple present, we describe
actions that are taking place in the
present, happen once or repeatedly,
happen one after the other, are
generally true, or are predetermined
by, for example, a train schedule
- He plays football every Tuesday.
- Example: A forward tries to score goals for his team.

3. We use the simple past to describe
actions that took place in the past,
that happened once or repeatedly
-Last month a girl from China joined our class.
-She showed us where she was from on a map.

4. The future tense with will in English
expresses a spontaneous decision,
a supposition, or an event in the
future that can’t be influenced.
-Come on, I will help you sort the files.
- It will rain tomorrow anyway.

5. The future tense with going to in
English expresses a logical
conclusion or a future action that is
already prepared or planned.
-Mrs Lucky is going to meet a friend in town.
-Jane and I are going to the cinema tonight.

6. The present progressive (also:
present continuous) is the continuous
form of the present tense. We use it
in English mostly to express actions
that are taking place at the present
moment or that are only happening
temporarily.
-Look! James is taking a picture of another tourist.
-He is meeting his friend Brad tonight.

7. We use the past progressive (also:
past continuous) to emphasise the
process or progression of an action in
the past.
-Lucy was sitting on the beach at six o’clock yesterday.
-While Lucy was relaxing on the beach, Laurence was sailing.

8. With the future I progressive we
emphasise the progression or length
of time of a future action.
-In an hour she will be sitting at her table with her friends. They will be
talking. They will be playing bingo.
-And she will be seeing Charles, a good-looking pensioner she met
there last week.