REVISION OF BASIC TENSES IN ENGLISH

SIMPLE PRESENT / PRESENT CONTINUOUS

SIMPLE PAST / PAST CONTINUOUS PRESENT PERFECT/PAST PERFECT

SIMPLE FUTURE“TO BE” GOING TO

Remember that tenses have different AUXILIARYAUXILIARY verbs :

Simple present : DO – DOES.

Simple Past: DID. Present Perfect: HAVE-

HAS. Past Perfect: HAD. Simple future : WILL.

Remember that CONTINUOUS tenses have auxiliary TO BE.TO BE.

Presente Continuous: AM – IS –ARE.

Past Continuous : WAS – WERE.

“To be” going to future : AM-IS-ARE going to.

Remember that PERFECT tenses have auxiliary TO HAVE :

Present Perfect: HAVE-HASHAVE-HASPast Perfect: HADHADFuture Perfect : WILL HAVE

Study this chart:Tense Spanish Affirmative Negative Question

Simple Present El canta

Pr. Continuous El está cantando

Simple Past El cantó

Past Continuous

El estaba cantando

Present Perfect El ha cantado

Simple Future El cantará

“To be” going to

El va a cantar

He sings He doesn’t sing

Does he sing?

He is singing He isn’t singing

Is he singing?

He sang He didn’t sing Did he sing?

He was singing He wasn’t singing

Was he singing?

He has sung He hasn’t sung Has he sung?

He will sing He won’t sing Will he sing?

He is going to sing

He isn’t goingto sing

Is he going to sing?

TASKS:Answer the following questions in a word document.

Which auxiliary verb is used with continuous tenses…? Which auxiliary verb is used with perfect tenses…? For the simple present (negative and interrogative form) we

use auxiliary…? For the present continuous we use the following forms …. of

auxiliary ……..? The past continuous has the same auxiliary verb as the …. the

difference is in the forms, which are in the ... HAD is used for the…. Which auxiliary verb is used with the simple past (negative and

interrogative…?And with the simple future…? The auxiliary verb for the present perfect is… and for the future

perfect…

EXERCISES SIMPLE PRESENT (affirmative) Negative Questions PRESENT CONTINUOUS (affirmaive) Negative Questions SIMPLE PRESENT / PRESENT CONTINUOUS SIMPLE PAST Negative Questions PAST CONTINUOUS Past continuous test 2 SIMPLE PAST/ PAST PROGRESSIVE PRESENT PERFECT PAST PERFECT SIMPLE PAST / PAST PERFECT WILL (affirmative) WILL (negative) TO BE GOING TO