- •Simple present
- •Use 4 Scheduled events in the near future
- •Use 5 Now (Non-Continuous Verbs)
- •Present continuous
- •1) Verbs expressing mental activity:
- •E.G. Do you believe in God?
- •Continuous and non – continuous uses
- •List of verbs that can be used in the continuous form with examples and definitions:
- •Some verbs can be especially confusing:
- •Use 4 Fixed arrangements in the near future
- •Use 5 Repetition and irritation with "Always"
- •The Present Simple versus the Present Continuous
- •Simple past
- •[Id] after t and d: wanted, landed.
- •Use 2 a series of completed actions
- •We use the Simple Past to list a series of completed actions in the past.
- •Use 4 Habits in the Past
- •Use 5 Past facts or generalizations
- •Used To
- •Would/ would always
- •There are some verbs in English which are considered to be troublesome.
- •Past continuous form
- •Use 1 Specific time
- •Use 2 Interrupted action in the past
- •Use 3 Two or more simultaneous past actions
- •Use 4 Repetition and irritation with "always"
- •Time relation and conjunctions as, when and while
- •The Past Simple versus the Past Continuous
- •Present perfect form
- •Use 2. Personal experience, achievements, changes over time,
- •Use 3 Multiple actions at different times
- •Use 4 Duration from the past until now (Non-Continuous Verbs)
- •The Present Perfect versus the Past Simple
- •Time Expressions with Present Perfect
- •Present perfect continuous form
- •Important
- •The Present Perfect versus the Present Perfect Continuous
- •Past perfect form
- •Past perfect continuous form
- •Past Continuous vs. Past Perfect Continuous
- •Simple future form Shall/Will
- •The Future Simple versus “Be going to”
- •Intention
- •Important
- •Future continuous
- •Future perfect
- •Future perfect continuous
- •Future Continuous vs. Future Perfect Continuous
- •Future in the past
- •Exercises
- •Ex.10 Linda Magee, a television news reporter, was interviewed about her day. Use the underlined sections of the article to write the interviewer’s questions.
- •Ex.16 Be creative! Write four sentences about your life at the moment using the Present Simple.
- •Now write four sentences about your life at the moment using the present continuous.
- •What is the difference between when we use the Present Simple and when we use the Present Continuous?
- •2) Read the text: Facts and Figures About the American Family
- •3) Looking at structures:
- •Housing in America
- •A u.S. Commuter
- •Ex.34. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses: Simple Present or Present Continuous.
- •The First tv Soap Opera
- •The Old Days
- •A Day in the Life of a Traditional Housewife
- •Ex. 69. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the Simple Past or Past Continuous tenses.
- •Ex. 70. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses: Simple Past / Past Continuous.
- •Ex.99. Simple Past / Present Perfect. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •Ex. 100. Simple Past / Present Perfect. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •Growing Old in America
- •Ex. 113. Present Perfect / Present Perfect Continuous. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •Ex. 114. Present Perfect / Present Perfect Continuous. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •Ex. 121. Present Continuous / Present Perfect Continuous. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •Ex. 121. Present Continuous / Present Perfect Continuous. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •Ex. 137. Simple Past / Past Perfect. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •Ex. 140. Simple Past / Present Perfect / Past Perfect. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •An unusual order
- •The New Fatherhood
- •Leonardo da Vinci
- •Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
- •Sor Juana Ines de Ia Cruz
- •Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- •John Stuart Mill
- •Margaret Mead
- •Ex. 149. Present Perfect / Past Perfect/Present Perfect Continuous / Past Perfect Continuous. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •1. It is already 9:30 pm and I (wait) _______________ here for over an hour. If John does not get here in the next five minutes, I am going to leave.
- •Ex. 151. Present Continuous / Simple Past /Present Perfect Continuous / Past Perfect Continuous. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •Ex. 152. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses: Present and Past Tenses and Non-Continuous Verbs
- •Ex. 153. Present and Past Tense Review. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •New Directions in Family Life
- •The High Cost of Children
- •Ex. 163. Will / Be Going To. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •Ex. 164. Will / Be Going To. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •Ex. 165. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with Will or Be Going To.
- •Ex. 167. Simple Present / Simple Future. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •Ex. 168. Simple Present / Simple Future. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •I will probably be studying for a test.
- •Ex. 172. Simple Future / Future Continuous. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •Ex. 173. Simple Present / Simple Future, Present Continuous / Future Continuous. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses
- •Ex. 182. Simple Future / Future Perfect. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses
- •Future Perfect / Future Perfect Continuous. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses
- •Ex. 185. Future Perfect / Future Perfect Continuous. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses
- •Future Continuous / Future Perfect Continuous. Using the words in parentheses, complete the text below with the appropriate tenses.
- •Verb Tense Review. Ex. 190 Complete sentences below with the appropriate tenses.
- •A Little Gossip
- •The Appointment
- •Agatha Christie
- •Ex. 194. The Restaurant
- •90.The bomb experts ________ the people shopping to come out until they found out that the parcel at the market entrance wasn't a bomb
- •Affirmative Simple tenses
- •Progressive tenses
- •Perfect tenses
- •Perfect progressive tenses
- •Negative Simple tenses
- •Progressive tenses
- •Perfect tenses
- •Perfect progressive tenses
Leonardo da Vinci
Most people recognize Leonardo da Vinci as the painter of the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. Yet, Leonardo ___________ (be) a master of design, engineering, science, and invention, as well as a master of art.
After Leonardo ___________ (paint) his most famous works, he __________ (begin) to spend more time on his other dreams. As a military engineer, Leonardo __________ (draw) plans for primitive tanks and airplanes long before they __________ (be) ever dreamed possible. He also ____________ (design) the first parachute and ____________ (construct) the first elevator.
In the sciences, Leonardo ____________ (be) equally amazing. He ___________ (discover) complex principles of physics nearly a century before Galileo. In anatomy, Leonardo ___________ (study) muscle and bone structure to improve his painting, and even after he __________ (tire) of painting, he ____________ (continue) to study the workings of the heart. He _____________ (even/ speculate) on the circulation of blood a century before William Harvey __________ (prove) it.
Leonardo da Vinci ___________ (be) so far ahead of his time that not until this century did his genius become truly evident.
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
Ibn Sina ___________ (be) a Persian who ___________ (write) The Canon of Medicine. This medical encyclopedia _____________ (be) very advanced; as a result, scholars ___________ (use) it for five centuries. Before his death in 1037, Ibn Sina ____________ (complete) an additionial 150 books on such varied subjects as philosophy, mathematics, theology, and astronomy. Like many learned men, he ___________ (begin) early. By the age of ten, he ____________ (memorize) the Koran. By the age of eighteen, he _____________ (be) physician to a sultan.
Sor Juana Ines de Ia Cruz
Sor Juana, the Great Mexican poet, ____________ (be born) in Mexico City around 1651. She _____________ (start / already) to read before she ____________ (be) three years old. By her seventh birthday, she __________ (try) to enter the university. Because girls ____________ (be allowed / not) in the university, Sor Juana eventually _____________ (join) the convent. During her life, she ____________ (write) extraordinary prose and poetry. Before she _____________ (die) in 1695, she ____________ (collect) a library of over four thousand books.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Goethe _____________ (live) from 1749 to 1832. He _____________ (be) a scientist as well as the greatest of German poets. By age sixteen, he ____________ (write / already) religious poems, a novel, and a prose epic. While continuing to write, he _____________ (study) both law and medicine. After he _____________ (be invited) to live in Weimar, Goethe ____________ (become) minister of state. Because of his position, he _____________ (educate) himself in agriculture, horticulture, and mining. He then _____________ (proceed) to master anatomy, biology, optics, and mineralogy.
John Stuart Mill
Perhaps John Stuart Mill ____________ (master/ already) more at age thirteen than most people learn in their entire lives. He ____________ (begin) reading Greek at three and Latin at seven. By age twelve, he ____________ (read) all the masterpieces in both languages.
He then ______________(turn) to logic and political economy; by eighteen, he_______________ (write) articles on these topics for the Westminster Review.