Present simple Past simple

Paul: My mother has a restaurant
Present continuous
S+ am / is / are + ving + compl
Paul: I am going to university tomorrow
BE GOING TO
(AM / IS / ARE GOING TO + V INFI)
Leslie: I am going to visit my family
Johanna: My parents aren’t going to travel
to Quito.
Paul told me his mother had a restaurant
Past continuous
S+ was / were + ving + compl
Paul told me he was going to university
next day
WAS / WERE GOIONG TO + VERB INFI
Leslie told me she was going to visit her
family.
Johanna told me her parents weren’t going
to travel to Quito.

Past simple
Past perfect
Nathaly: I went to Quito
Nathaly told me she had gone to Quito.
Ariel: I didn’t play video games on my
Ariel told me he hadn’t played video games
cellphone yesterday
on his cellphone the day before.

Present perfect
Past perfect
Andres : I have played video games
Andres told me he had played video
Alex : My parents haven’t worked in my games.
house.
Alex told me his parents hadn’t worked in
MODAL VERBS his house

CAN COULD

Michell: I can play the piano She told me she could play the
piano.
MAY
MIGHT
Belén: I may be late.
Belén told me she might be late

WOULD
WILL
Cristhian told me he would travel to the
Cristhian: I will travel to the USA USA.

SHOULD
SHOULD Paul said that I should call her next day
Paul: You should call her tomorrow
COULD COULD

Evelyn: She could return to the party Evelyn said that she could return to the
party.
MIGHT
MIGHT
Cristopher: I might return next week
Cristopher said that he might return before
week
I went to give medicine to my wife
because she is in poor health

I can build industrial machines

because it was a subject in the
university.

You should visit a doctor if you

have a fever

My wife has not worked since she

got pregnant

I'm going to buy food tomorrow

because the refrigerator is empty