REMOTE COURSE A2+

Class Assignment No. 1 – TENSES USES

1. Pay attention to the tense uses in the present time

PRESENT SIMPLE PRESENT CONTINUOUS

PRESENT TIME 1) Routines or habits that 2) Actions in progress at the

are done with a certain moment of speaking.
regularity.
IDEAS 3) Facts or general truths 4) Situations in progress over
a period of time.

PERSONAL - 5) Complaints + “always”

FUTURE 6) Timetables or schedules: 7) Arrangements and future

something that is fixed plans
for the future [start, *ARRANGEMENTS: meetings,
appointments, reunions, dates,
finish, open, close]. etc.

E.g.:

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A. Tell in 70 words what a personal trainer does in a typical day since morning to
night.
B. Tell in 50 words what is the personal trainer doing right now.

2. Pay attention to the tense uses in the past time

 PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTINUOUS

ACTIONS 8) States or habits that 9) Actions in progress at some

finished in the past. point in the past.

INTERRUPTIONS 10) Short actions in a 11) Long actions that are

sequence of events. interrupted by short ones.
WHILE
BACKGROUND - 12) Describe the background.

E.g.:

8) –-
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C. Tell in 40 words a sequence of events in the past that starts this way:

Mollie opened the door of her house and found something horrible.

D. Describe the background in 40 words of this following situation:

The house was dark and we decided to talk about our relationship. Use sentences
like: “It was raining heavily…”

3. Pay attention to the tense uses in the future time

 PRESENT PRESENT FUTURE SIMPLE FUTURE
CONTINUOUS
SIMPLE [will – won’t] “GOING TO”

GENERAL USES 13) Schedules and 14) Arrangements and 15) Predictions based 16) Predictions based on
timetables. For plans already set on no evidence. evidence: the forecast,
example, for up. for example.
transports or  OBSERVING
cinemas.  MEETINGS
 APPOINTMENTS
 DATES
 REUNIONS
DO NOT EXIST
WITHOUT
ADVERBS.

DECISIONS 17) Instant decisions. 18) Planned decisions I

intend to do.
EXTRA 19) Requests and
offers.
20) Expresions

E.g.:

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PROBABILITY IN THE FUTURE

E. Tell in 70 words what you have planned for the rest of this year until November.

F. By 2030 life might be different. Describe predictions in 50 words regarding food,

transport and education.