The document describes the different tenses in English including: present simple, past simple, future simple, present continuous, past continuous, future continuous, present perfect, past perfect, future perfect, present perfect continuous, past perfect continuous, and future perfect continuous. For each tense, examples are provided to illustrate its usage. The tenses are used to talk about actions or events in the present, past, or future, and whether they are ongoing, completed or planned to happen.
For intermediate EFL students. Practice modal verbs of possibility and cerainty - may, might, could, must, can't be.
Look at the pictures and make sentences
English basic verb tenses, including Simple Past, Past Continuous, Simple Present, Present Continuous, Present perfect, Future (will and be going to).
Adapted from a presentation I downloaded from Shawn Toh (thanks Shawn!) which was a bit too detailed for my third grade students.
How to Craft Stories using Present TenseBookalooza
This presentation discusses how to craft stories using the present tense, focusing on the various types of tenses and their applications. It begins by defining tenses as verb forms that express the time of actions, and it emphasizes their role in showing when an action occurs. The presentation introduces the three primary types of tenses: past, present, and future. It then delves into the specifics of the present tense, highlighting its use in describing actions happening in the current moment, habitual actions, and facts that are generally true. The simple present tense is exemplified by sentences like "I play soccer every weekend." The presentation also covers the present continuous tense, which is used for actions in progress at the moment of speaking, with the example "She is reading a book." Furthermore, it discusses the present perfect tense, which signifies actions that happened at an unspecified time in the past but still have relevance to the present, exemplified by "I have finished my homework." Finally, the presentation explores the present perfect continuous tense, used to describe ongoing actions that began in the past, such as "They have been working on this project for hours." Overall, the presentation offers a comprehensive overview of the present tense and its various forms, aiding in the crafting of engaging stories using this grammatical structure.
23. I am walking through the park on my way to school.
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25. Past continuous tense The action is completed but we are describing the process of the completed action. This form uses the past tense of am “ was” or “were’ and “ ing” form of verb.
30. Future Continuous tense An action that is in the future and I am describing the process of it… so the action covers a period of time not just one point in time. This tense uses “ will be” or “ ing” form of verb.
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32. I will be swimming at the swimming pool next week.
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34. Present perfect An action on going as I speak, partly completed in the past and don’t know if it will continue into the future. This tense uses “have “ plus the past tense of the verb.
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36. I have swam at the swimming pool three times this week.
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38. Past Perfect Tense The action Is completed in the past and is described from a past point of view. It is the past of the past. This verb tense uses “had” plus the past tense of the verb. This verb tense is not used for all actions.
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41. Future Perfect Tense : The action is in the future but I am describing the action as " the past of the future" So I am talking about two periods in the future and referring to one period as complete compared to the other period, even though both periods are in the future. This verb tense uses “ will have” plus the past tense of the verb.
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43. By the end of next year, I will have swam in the pool one hundred times if I continue to go every week.
44. I will have read every book in that library if by the end of this month.
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46. Present perfect continuous Present perfect continuous speaks of an action that is still on going and it has been happening for some time in the past and seems it will continue in to the future, though we don’t know for sure. The verbs “have been” plus “ing” of the verb is used.
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48. I have been swimming in that pool for ten years and never had a problem with chlorine.
49. I have been reading books in that library for weeks and yet I haven’t found a real interesting one.
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51. Past Perfect continuous This talks of two past dates and of a continuous action that was performed until the past date was arrived at. It is the past of the past. This tense uses “had been” plus the “ing” form of the verb.
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53. I had been reading books in that library for twenty years at the end of last month.
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55. Future Perfect Continuous This talks of a time in the future and an action having happened up to that point. The action is a continual action that may have been in the past, may be in the future, but will happen for a period in the future up to the future point specified. So we are talking about two periods in the future. One is a point in the future, the other is the action up to that point in the future. The verb tense uses “ willhave been” plus the “ing” form of the verb.
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57. I had been reading books in that library for twenty years at the end of last month.
58. I had been washing my face with soap and water until I was thirteen, then I learned that soap was drying my skin.
59. By the time I am thirty I will have been cooking my breakfast at least thirty thousand times.
60. By the end of next year, I will have been swimming in the pool one hundred times.
61. I will have been reading books in that library for twenty years by the end of next month.
