TENSES

TIEMPOS DE VERBO
 PRESENT
• SIMPLE
• CONTINUOUS
• PERFECT SIMPLE
• PERFECT CONTINUOUS
 SIMPLE
• Acciones permanentes que no suelen cambiar / Permanent situations
Ejemplo: He works in a hospital.

• Generalidades / General truth

Ejemplo: Water boils at 100º C.

• Rutinas, acciones que hacemos habitualmente / Routines

Ejemplo: He always works very hard.
 CONTINUOUS
• Acciones que ESTÁN ocurriendo al momento de hablar / action
happening at the moment of speaking
Ejemplo: The baby is sleeping at the moment.

• Situación que cambia constantemente de la cuál no tenemos control /

Changing situation
Ejemplo: The city is getting bigger and bigger.
 TIME EXPRESSIONS
• Present Simple: every day/week/month/year, usually, sometimes, always,
rarely, never, often, in the morning/evening/afternoon, at night, on
Mondays, etc.

• Present Continuous: now, at the moment, at present, nowadays, today,

tonight, always, still, etc.
 PAST
• SIMPLE
• CONTINUOUS
• PERFECT SIMPLE
• PERFECT CONTINUOS
 SIMPLE
• Acción que ocurrió y finalizó en el pasado, usualmente mencionando el
momento en el que ocurrió / Completed past action
Ejemplo: I finished my homework last night.
 CONTINUOUS
• Acción que estuvo en progreso en un momento determinado del pasado /
action which was in progress at a stated time in the past
Ejemplo: At 1 o’clock this afternoon they were having coffee.

• Acción interrumpida / Interrupted action

Ejemplo: I was watching T.V. when my mom arrived.
 TIME EXPRESSIONS
• Past simple: yesterday, last week, (how long) ago, then, just now, when, in
2010, etc.

• Past continuous: when, while, as, the moment that, etc.