I made this slide for my advanced students at Taylor Business Institute. This is only a quick review of the tenses.

1. Instructor: Dustin French

2. Unit 1 –Present and Future
Unit 2 –Past Time
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3. SIMPLE PRESENT
PRESENT PROGRESSIVE
 To show actions, events, or  To show actions or events
states that are true in that are in progress at the
general or happen moment (not finished).
habitually.
2. I am looking at you.
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4. P. PERFECT
PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
 Completed actions with  An action with connection to
connection to the present. the present that is
 Commonly used with “for” or unfinished or temporary.
“since”  Commonly used with “for” or
“since”
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5. WILL BE GOING TO
 To express the future and  To express the future and
it’s unplanned. it’s planned or in progress.
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6. WILL / PROGRESSIVE P. PROGRESSIVE / FUTURE
 To describe an action that  To talk about future action or
will be in progress at a event that has been already
certain time in the future. arranged.
 Future intention.
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7. FUTURE PERFECT F. PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
 To show an action, state, or  The same as future perfect.
even that will happen before
a certain time in the future.
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8. SIMPLE PAST PAST PROGRESSIVE
 To express an action, event  To express an action that
or state completed at a was in progress (not
general or specific time in finished) at a time in the
the past. past.
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9. Arise Pay Bring
Buy Awake Teach
Keep Beat Cut
Build Spend Take
Feed Meet Say
Swim Spring Forbid
Weep Eat Tear
Fly Stick Dig
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10.  Toexpress an action, event,
or state completed at an
indefinite time in the past.
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11. PAST PERFECT PAST PERFECT PRO.
 Use with simple past to  To express an action that
show which of two past was in progress before
actions, events, or states another past event.
happened first.
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12. Use simple past to show which of two past
actions, events, or states happened first.
Commonly used with Past Perfect
By the time When Before/After Because
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13. USED TO WOULD
 To show habitual action,  To express actions or events
event, or state that was true that occurred regularly
in the past but is no longer during a period in the past.
true now.
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15. Focus on Grammar 3rd ed., 2006.
By Jay Maurer
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