The document provides information and examples about using different tenses in English, including the present simple, present continuous, past simple, and irregular verbs. It discusses how to form sentences using common time expressions with various subjects and gives examples of affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences. Key tenses covered include the present simple for habits, the present continuous for ongoing actions, and the past simple for completed past actions. Examples are provided to illustrate conjugations of regular and irregular verbs.

2. You must talk about what you usually do.
Express a habit or a repeated action
Something you do … something you don’t do
Everyday
Once a week
Once a year
Never
Often
Rarely
Seldom…
Remember that you don’t change
the verb if the subject is
I/YOU/WE/THEY
You must add “s” with SHE/HE/IT
These adverbs are
placed after the subect and before
the verb . Except with TO BE

3. YOU ARE USING PRESENT SIMPLE TENSE
You must talk about what your best friend or
someone in your family does.
Express a habit or a repeated action
Something he/she does. Something he/she
doesn’t do
Everyday
Once a week
Once a year
Never
Often
Rarely
Seldom…
Remember that you use the auxiliar
DO /DON’T if the subject is
I/YOU/WE/THEY
You must use DOES/DOESN’T with
SHE/HE/IT. And the “S” dissappears
Now make negative and
interrogative sentences

4.  I USUALLY wake up at 6.30
 I don’t wake up at 6.3 on sunday
 My daughter NEVER drinks milk
 She doesn’t drink coke, she is too young
 You SOMETIMES listen to the teacher
 You don’t use your mobile inside the school
 My dog is ALWAYS happy
 It’ s NEVER sad
 Brad Pitt travels to India ONCE A YEAR to help poor
people
 He doesn’t help rich people
 Animals RARELY sleep
 Animals don’t sleep in beds

5. YOU ARE USING PRESENT CONTINUOUS
 Tell me an action which is occurring right now
(at this moment, today, this year, etc.).
 You will make use of the present simple TO BE
 I’m
 You’re
 He’s
 She’s
 It’s
 We’re
 You’re
 They’re
Play – Playing
Live – Living
Try - trying
Put – putting…
 And a gerund (Comprando, cantando , leyendo)
 In english they are made adding ING to the verb

6. PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS
Complete the text with the present simple or present
continuous form of the verbs in the box.
be complain leave not listen make prefer not see
It’s 7 a.m. on the first day of the new school year. Mum
(1)_______________ breakfast. Dad has already left for
work. He often (2)_______________ very early, so we
(3)_______________ usually _______________ him in the
mornings. My brothers (4)____________________ that
they’re tired. They (5)____________________ the summer
holidays to school. Mum (6)_______________ to them!

7. YOU ARE USING PAST SIMPLE
 Finish these sentences…
 I _________________________ last summer
 My father ________________ 20 years ago
 My mother _______________ when she was 15
 My teacher __________________ on July
 My parents ____________________ 6 hours ago
Remember that there two kind of verbs
REGULAR and IRREGULAR verbs
Past simple regular is made by adding ED
Past simple irregular verbs is ….. irregular

8. PAST SIMPLE
Write the past simple form of the verbs. Then match 1–5 with a–f to
make sentences.
The boys ate (eat) e
1 I _________________ (go)
2 Helen _________________ (buy)
3 Jack _________________ (not finish)
4 We _________________ (meet)
5 You _________________ (not be)
a his homework last night.
b our friends in the café.
c to the cinema yesterday.
d very friendly to my brother.
e too much ice cream.
f some new trainers.

9.  I USUALLY wake up at 6.30
 I don’t wake up at 6.3 on Sunday
 Today is Sunday and I’m waking up at 12
 My daughter NEVER drinks milk
 She doesn’t drink coke, she is too young
 She is drinking milk with chocolate today
 You SOMETIMES listen to the teacher
 You don’t use your mobile inside the school
 You are not listening to me now!Be quiet!
 My dog is ALWAYS happy
 It’ s NEVER sad
 It is crying in that moment because i’m not at home

10. REGULAR VERBS
 Spelling rules
Verbs ending with "consonant-vowel-consonant“
When a verb ends with a consonant-vowel-consonant, and we
put STRESS on this sound in speech, we double the last consonant.
Then we add ed.
stop =>
stopp
+ ed
=> stopped
Plan =>
plann + e
d
=> planned

11.  Verbs ending with "e"
When a verb ends with the letter e, we add only the letter d.
dance => dance + d => danced
smile => smile + d => smiled
 Verbs Ending with "y"
 When a verb ends with the letter y, and there is a consonant
before it, the y changes into i. Then we add ed.
try => tri + ed => tried
cry => cri + ed => cried
study => studi + ed => studied
 When a verb ends with y, and there is a vowel before it, we simply add
ed to the verb.
stay => stay + ed => stayed
play => play + ed => played
enjoy => enjoy + ed => enjoyed

12. IRREGULAR VERBS
INFINITIVE
BE
COME
BUILD
BUY
DRIVE
WRITE
BEGIN
BREAK
PUT
HAVE
PAST SIMPLE
WAS/WERE
CAME
BUILT
BOUGHT
DROVE
WROTE
BEGAN
BROKE
PUT
HAD
PAST PARTICIPLE
BEEN
COME
BUILT
BOUGHT
DRIVEN
WRITEN
BEGUN
BROKEN
PUT
HAD

13. Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in
the box.
be not be eat get give go hear see
On the morning of his sixteenth birthday, Sam didn’t
have to get up early. But he couldn’t sleep, so he
(1)_______________ downstairs to the kitchen. His
parents (2)_______________ there, so he
(3)_______________ breakfast alone. Then he
(4)_______________ something shiny in the cupboard. It
(5)_______________ a new laptop! Then he
(6)_______________ his parents – they were laughing
behind the kitchen door. Sam’s mum
(7)_______________ him a hug. His birthday was starting
to get a lot better!