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ENGLISH GUIDE 5

ESTANDAR: 1
CONTENIDO TENSES REVIEW
PROGRAMÁTICO:
DOCENTE: OSCAR JAVIER DELGADO RIBEROS
ESTUDIANTE GRADO 11th ____

1. CONTEXTUALIZACIÓN

The Tenses are the most important part of English Language. If you wish to write a correct sentence or wish to say anything to anyone, you need to express the idea in the right form of Tenses. English
language has three main time divisions- Past, Present and Future expressed by the tenses.

2. GLOSARIO

Regular, Irregular and Phrasal verbs, Auxiliaries, Adverbs.

3. CONCEPTUALIZACIÓN

TENSE . USE AUX ADVERBS EXAMPLES

SIMPLE PRESENT Habits / Routines DO / DOES (Int- Always. Usually. Often, sometimes. Rarely, never, Peter studies law.
Neg) etc…
Luis doesn’t like pasta.

Does she live in a house?

PRESENT CONTINUOUS Activities at the moment of AM / IS / ARE Now, in this moment, currently, nowadays, etc I am watching tv now.
 speaking We aren’t chatting in this moment.

Is he reading a magazine?

As future: It shows that we

have already decided
something and usually that Tomorrow / next…. / the following / tonight I am seeing the doctor tomorrow.
we have already made a
She is not playing tennis with Jeremy next weekend.
plan or arrangements:
Are the actors visiting Denmark next month?

PRESENT PERFECT Experiences HAS / HAVE For / since / yet / already / just / never / so far / She has done her homework.
SIMPLE ever
I haven’t been to Ireland.

Have you ever driven a tractor?

PRESENT PERFECT Something started in the HAS / HAVE For / since / He has been working here for years.
CONT. past and has continued up
until now I haven’t been reading since I was 4

Has she been dancing?

PAST SIMPLE Finished activities DID (NEG-INT) Yesterday / last… / ago / She ate a sandwich.

She didn’t eat a sandwich.

Did she eat a sandwich?

PAST CONTINUOUS Interrupted actions WAS / WERE When / while I was swimming when I saw a shark.

We weren’t sleeping when Dad arrived.

Were you sleeping yesterday at 6?

PAST PERFECT An action before another HAD For / since / yet / already / just / never / so far I had never been here.
action
She hadn’t read the newspaper.

Had he closed the door?

FUTURE SIMPLE Decisions / threatens WILL / WON’T Tomorrow / next…. / the following m/ tonight I will buy a book.
 She won’t travel to Spain.

Will you be here early?

FUTURE PROGRESSIVE A longer action in the
future will be interrupted by
a shorter action in the
future-
WILL BE… Tomorrow / next…. / the following / tonight She will be working tomorrow.
I won’t be reading that book.
Will your father be living here next year?

FUTURE PERFECT Action that will be WILL HAVE + Tomorrow / next…. / the following / tonight I will have read at least 500 books by the end of the year.
completed in the future. VPP
She won’t have finished her task soon.

Will he have moved to a new house tomorrow?

FUTURE WITH GOING Plans / evidence AM / IS / ARE Tomorrow / next…. / the following / tonight I am going to see a movie.
TO
She isn’t going to swim tonight.

Are you going to stay here?

4. ACTIVIDADES

ACTIVITY 1: Choose the most appropriate answer.

1. I can't leave now. I for an important telephone call.

wait am waiting had been waiting was waiting

2. What does she do? – She the piano in a local orchestra.

plays played has played is playing

3. He must be very hungry. He anything in three days.

didn't eat hasn't eaten hadn't eaten wasn't eating

4. First he as a salesman, then as a night clerk, and after that he quit his job and became a writer.

worked has worked had worked had been working

5. I usually to work by bus. It takes me about forty minutes to get to work by bus.

go am going have gone have been going

6. Yesterday my daughter flew in an airplane for the first time in her life. She in an airplane before.

has never flown was never flying had never flown

7. Are you going to Lena's party? – No. I home tonight. I'm a little tired.

stay am staying stayed have stayed

8. She probably her keys while she was walking in the park.

lost has lost had lost

9. Will the rain ever stop? It all day.

had been raining has been raining is raining was raining

10. I writing my report in an hour or so. Then we can go to a movie.

finish finished have finished will finish

Activity 2: Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.

1. You look really great! (you, work) out at the fitness center recently?

2. A: What (you, do) when the accident occurred?

B: I (try) to change a light bulb that had burnt out.

 3. I (have) the same car for more than ten years. I'm thinking about buying a new one.

4. If it (snow) this weekend, we (go) skiing near Lake Tahoe.

5. A: What do you call people who work in libraries?

B: They (call) librarians.

6. I came to England six months ago. I started my economics course three months ago. When I return to Australia, I (study) for nine months and I (be) in England for exactly
one year.

7. Sam (arrive) in San Diego a week ago.

8. Samantha (live) in Berlin for more than two years. In fact, she (live) there when the Berlin wall came down.

9. If Vera (keep) drinking, she (lose, eventually) her job.

10. The Maya established a very advanced civilization in the jungles of the Yucatan; however, their culture (disappear, virtually) by the time Europeans first (arrive) in the
New World.
ACTIVITY 3: Do the following on line activities

https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b1/review-verb-tenses-b1/ REVIEW OF ALL INTERMEDIATE VERB TENSES (CEFR B1)

ACTIVITY 4: Watch the following video and take notes about it: Learn ALL 16 TENSES Easily in under 30 Minutes - Present, Past, Future, Conditional - YouTube (English with Lucy)