Margit Kirss

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ENGLISH form 6 THE TENSES

• By
• Margit Kirss

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SIMPLE TENSES
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CONTINUOUS TENSES
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PERFECT TENSES
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EXAMPLES (Simple Tenses)

• Tom every day from 9 am to 5 pm.
• Tom very hard yesterday.
• Tom harder tomorrow.

works
worked
will work
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EXAMPLES (Continuous tenses)

• Tom with Paul at the moment.
• Tom with Paul, when Lucy
  came to the factory.
• Tom in a new factory at
  the same time next year.

is working
was working
will be working
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EXAMPLES (Perfect Tenses)

• Tom on the farm for several
  years.
• By June 1996 Tom on the
  farm for two years.
• Tom on the farm since I
  first met him.

has worked
had worked
has been working
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EXERCISE

•  Nobody at the moment. (swim)
•  Blackpool beach first famous in the
  18th century. (become)
• Nowadays people a lot of money in the
  amusement park. (spend)
• I usually a sandwich for breakfast.
  (eat)
• Yesterday I cornflakes in the morning.
  (eat)
• She a new song last Monday. (learn)
•   I him this week. (not see)

is swimming
became
spend
eat
ate
learnt
have not seen
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came

• When Emily to his desk, Matthew
  his back to her. (come/turn)
• Matthew usually when everybody
  
• at him. (blush/look)
• Have a seat. - But somebody my
  seat already. (take)
• - What right now? (do) I
  my homework. (do)
• We to Spain for three weeks next
  summer. (go)

turned
blushes
are looking
has taken
are you doing
am doing
will go
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went

• You swimming last summer. (go)
• Matthew always forward to a new
  school year. (look)
• On Monday at three oclock, after the lunch
  break, all the students in
  the classroom. (sit)
• They the project by March in
  1976. (finish)

looks
were sitting
had finished
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• WELL DONE!