Date : June 8th , 2010.

Aim: To practice the four tenses learnt through the previous

lessons

Reviewing the Simple Present , Present

Continuous , Simple Past and Past continuous
 Present Simple

When do we use the present simple?

• To say things that are permanent.

Ex. I teach English (this is my job)

• Sentences that are true facts.

Ex. The sun rises everyday.

• To describe daily situations.

•Ex. I eat my lunch everyday.
 How do we form sentences in the Present Simple
tense?
• Affirmative (I, you, we, they): •Affirmative (she, he, it):
Subject+ verb + complement. Subject + verb + (s) – (es) + complement.
Ex. I go to school from Monday to Friday. Ex. She goes to school from Monday to
Friday.

• Negative (I, you, we, they): • Negative (she, he, it):

Subject + don’t + verb + complement Subject + doesn’t + verb + complement
Ex. I don’t go to school on Sunday Ex. she doesn’t play the piano

• Question (I, you, we, they); • Question (she, he, it)

Do + subject + verb +complement ? Does + subject + verb + complement ?
Ex. Do you play tennis? Ex. Does he play tennis?
Yes, I do. Yes, he does.
No, I don’t. No, he doesn’t.
 Present Continuous

When do we use the Present Continuous?

• To describe something that is happening now

Ex. I am eating my chocolate (now)

•To say something that is temporally

Ex. I am reading a book (during a week, 3 days, etc)
How do we form sentences in the Present
Continuous tense?
 Simple Past

When do we use the Simple Past tense?

We use this tense when we refer to:

• Complete activities in the past.

Ex. I went to the cinema last Friday.

• Activities that can’t change (they are done)

Ex. I committed a crime last year.

• Repeated actions in the past.

Ex. I called him many times yesterday.
 How do we form sentences in the Simple Past
tense?
We have two types of verbs Regular and Irregular :

• Regular verbs don’t change and we form them adding a “D” or

an “ED” at the end of the verb.
Ex.1 : Play : played , commit: committed, stay: stayed
Ex.2: I played football yesterday.

• Irregular verbs change their structure:

Ex.3: Find: found, go: went, feel: felt , be: was (I, she, he, it) –
were (we, you, they)
Ex.4: I went to London last year.
Ex.5: She was in her house at 5:00 pm yesterday.
 Did
Affirmative:
Subject + verb in past+ complement.
Ex. I killed a cat last year.
Ex. You lost your wallet yesterday.
Negative:
Subject + didn’t + verb in present +
compl.
Ex. She didn’t kill a cat last year.
Ex. He didn’t loose his wallet yesterday.
Question:
Did + subject + verb in present + compl.?
Ex. Did they kill a cat last year?
Yes, they did.
No, they didn’t.
Ex. Did we loose our wallets yesterday?
Yes, we did.
No, we didn’t.
I, she, he, it: WAS - you, we they: WERE
Affirmative:
Subject + was/were + complement
Ex. I was at home yesterday.
Ex. We were dancers last year.
Negative:
Subject + wasn’t/weren’t + complement
Ex. She wasn’t at the hospital.
Ex. They weren’t at school last night.
Question:
(what, where, why, who, which, how) +
was/were + subject + complement?
Ex. Was he at the train station yesterday?
Yes, he was.
No, he wasn’t.
Ex. Where were you yesterday?
I was at the train station yesterday.
 Past Continuous
When do we use the Past Continuous tense?
We use this tense when we want to refer to:

• Incomplete activities in the past that began in the past and are
still going on in the past.
• Activities in progress when something else happened in the
past

Ex.1: She was eating when the phone rang.

Past Cont. Past Simple

Ex.2: They were telling us about the accident, when the police
arrived Past Cont. Past Simple
How do we form sentences in the past continuous tense?
Was/were + verb + ing
Comparison
 Exercises
Create sentences using the verbs bellow:
Ex. sing/past continuous/question: were you singing?
• Arrest/simple past/affirmative:
• Confess/past continuous/negative:
• Escape/present continuous/question:
• Go/simple present/question?
• Look/simple past/negative:
• Walk/past continuous/affirmative:
• Think/present continuous/negative:
• Play/simple present/affirmative:
• Hide/simple past/question:
• Steal/past continuous/question:
• Show/present continuous/affirmative:
• Want/simple present/negative:
• Find/simple past/affirmative:
• Feel/past continuous/negative:
• Listen to/present continuous/question: