VERB TENSE REVIEW

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VERB TENSE REVIEW

1. Present Continuous
2. Past Continuous
3. Simple Present
4. Simple Past
5. Future Going to

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¹SIMPLE PRESENT

• Talk about habits and routine
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• Tom studies every day.
• Affirmative sentences add s, es, ies for
  he, she, it.
• auxiliaries Do / Does

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SIMPLE PRESENTADVERBS

• ALWAYS (sempre)
• USUALLY / GENERALLY (geralmente)
• SOMETIMES (às vezes)
• NORMALLY (normalmente)
• NEVER (nunca)
• OFTEN / FREQUENTLY (frequentemente)
• EVERY... (day, week) (todo...)
• ON day of the week (Saturday, Monday...)

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²PRESENT CONTINUOUS

• Talk about actions that are still in progress at
  the moment we are speaking
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• Tom is studying right now.
• auxiliary am/is/are

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PRESENT CONTINUOUSADVERBS

• AT THE/THIS MOMENT ( nesse momento)
• TODAY (hoje)
• NOW / RIGHT NOW (agora)
• LISTEN! (Escute!)
• LOOK! (Olhe!)

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³PAST CONTINUOUS

• Talk about an action that were in progress in
  certain moment in the past when another action
  happened or at the same moment of another action
  (while)
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• Tom was studying when they arrived.
• auxiliary was/were

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PAST CONTINUOUSADVERBS

• when another action happened
• Tom was studying when they arrived.
• at the same moment of another action
• Tom was studying while they were playing soccer.

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4Simple Past

• Talk about actions that happened in a certain
  moment in the past and theyre already finished
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• Tom studied last night.
• Affirmative sentences verb in the 2nd column.
• auxiliary Did

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SIMPLE PASTADVERBS

• YESTERDAY (ontem)
• LAST .... (NIGHT / WEEK / MONTH / YEAR)
  (passado(a)...)
• .... AGO (TWO DAYS AGO) (atrás)
• WHEN .... (WHEN YOU ARRIVED) (quando...)

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5Future (plans) GOING TO

• Talk about an action that is going to happen in
  the future
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• Tom is going to study in Canada next month.
• auxiliary am/is/are going to verb

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FUTURE GOING TO ADVERBS

• TOMORROW (amanhã)
• NEXT .... (WEEK / MONTH / YEAR) (próximo...)
• SOON (em breve)
• THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (depois de amanhã)
• IN ... (TWO DAYS / 2015) (em...)