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- 2. 2 Secret Knowledge Brief Infoabout English tenses: English tenses are not scary, and they are very easy to understand and use if you have the secret knowledge
- 3. 3 Secret Knowledge • Theyhave the same tenses as in your language: • Present • Past • Future • BUT!
- 4. 4 Secret Knowledge unlike yourlanguage, there are also some aspects of these tenses: • Indefinite (or simple) • Continuous • Perfect • Perfect Continuous
- 5. 5 And each tensehas these aspects: Present - Indefinite/ Continuous/ Perfect Perfect Continuous Past – Indefinite/ Continuous/ Perfect/ Perfect Continuous Future – Indefinite/ Continuous/ Perfect Perfect Continuous
- 6. 6 Secret Knowledge Indefinite: whatyou know: - You know when it happens, or happened, or will happen - Or how often it happens or happened, or will happen
- 7. 7 Secret Knowledge Examples: • Nikolaeats chocolate every day what you know: when it happens: in present, and how often it happens: every day (only smart and lucky people eat chocolate every day!)
- 8. 8 More examples: • Nikolaate chocolate yesterday. What you know: when it happened - yesterday
- 9. 9 and I willeat chocolate tomorrow! what you know: when it will happen: tomorrow (yeah, and it will be a HUGE bar of chocolate!)
- 10. 10 Secret Knowledge Continuous: whatyou know: - You know when exactly it is/was/ will be taking place and it is/was/will be still taking place – continues (or continued/ will continue)
- 11. 11 Secret Knowledge Examples: • Nikolais eating chocolate now, don’t disturb him! What you know: when exactly it’s happening: it’s happening in present, and it continues It’s happening NOW, at this very moment: do you hear him chewing it?
- 12. 12 More examples: • Anawas eating chocolate, when Nikola came back home from school (and she was eating HIS chocolate!) • What you know: when exactly it was taking place, and it was still taking place when Nikola was home – so he was there, looking at Ana, while she was eating his chocolate…how goshy gosh is that?
- 13. 13 • More examples: •And I will be eating chocolate at 7 o’clock tomorrow! • What you know: when exactly it will be taking place and it will still be taking place! It’s not something I’ll quickly do and forget, nah, I’ll be eeeeaaaatiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing chocolate
- 14. 14 Secret Knowledge Perfect: whatyou know: - That it happens/happened/ will happen before something else happens/happened/will happen, or by a certain time (BUT: you can never say when or when exactly it happened without ‘this something’ (another action) or ‘by which time’ (certain time)
- 15. 15 Secret Knowledge • Examples: •Nikola has already eaten all his chocolate • What you know: you don’t know when Nikola did that, but you know that by now Nikola has eaten it and now there’s NO chocolate left: he HAS EATEN it!
- 16. 16 Secret Knowledge Examples: • Anahad eaten all the chocolate before Nikola came back home. What you know: when Nikola came home there was NO chocolate left as Ana HAD EATEN it all! (yeah, girls can be so evil at times)
- 17. 17 Secret Knowledge Perfect Continuous:what you know: - For how long it continues /continued/will continue before or by a certain time (or since what time, but anyway, you can count how long…just use your math skills)
- 18. 18 Secret Knowledge Examples: • Nikolahas been eating chocolate for 25 minutes already. What you know: how long Nikola has been doing it and is still doing Look at his happy face, he HAS BEEN EATING chocolate for 25 minutes and is still eating it! (happy happy, joy joy!)
- 19. 19 More examples: • Anahad been eating chocolate for 30 minutes when Nikola came back home from school. What you know: how long she had been doing that and she was still doing by the time Nikola came back home… for 30 minutes!!
- 20. 20 EASY! Now let’s practisewith a new secret word: to chocolate To chocolate = to eat chocolate and enjoy it
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