3.

2 Grammar focus: The present simple, past simple, present perfect and past
perfect in contrast

Activity 3.2.2: Uses of tenses

1. Matching

1. c, f i

2. d h

3. a, e g

4. b

2. Use of Verbs Note that the tenses are given in brackets.

a. expresses an action that happens again and again. (present simple)

b. expresses a fact that is always true. (present simple)

c. expresses a fact that is true for a long time. (present simple)

d. expresses a finished action in the past. (past simple)

e. expresses a past situation or habit. (past simple)

f. makes clear that one action in the past happened before another action in the past. (past
perfect)

g. expresses an action that began in the past and still continues

h. expresses an experience that happened at some time in one's life. (present perfect)

i. expresses a past action that has a present result. (present perfect)

3. Completion

a. makes b. was taken

c. have not seen d. read

e. had been f. has gone

g. has won h. started

I. have you been j. have known

k. have visited l. had seen