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Showing posts with label tenses. Show all posts
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Monday, 9 March 2020

Future tenses: future simple and going to

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Wednesday, 8 January 2020

Present perfect simple

PRESENT PERFECT: FORM AND USE:



  1. Present Perfect is used for actions in the past which have a connection to the present. The time when these actions happened is not relevant so there is often no time complement.

  2. Present Perfect is used for recently completed actions. Actions that take place in a recent past. 
  3. Present Perfect is also used for actions beginning in the past that continue up to the present.

EXERCISES
PAST SIMPLE: FORM AND USE:
  • Positive sentence → Subject + verb+ ed or irregular form (I played with her.- She came with us.)
  • Questions → Auxiliary verb + subject +verb (Did they read the story?)
  • Negative sentence → Subject + auxiliary verb + verb ( I didn’t like it.) 



USE:
  • For completed action in the past (We saw your sister yesterday.)
  • For a series of completed actions (I woke up, had a shower, had breakfast and went to school.)
  • For longer actions that start and stop in the past; time expressions usually go with it (My sister lived in London for years.)
  • For talking about habits which stopped in the past (She studied Japanese when she was in high school.)
  • For past facts or generalizations (Old people never played football.)
CONTRAST:


PAST SIMPLE & PRESENT PERFECT - CONTRAST
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Tuesday, 17 December 2019

Past perfect: form and use

FORM AND USE:


It is used for actions that start in the past and continue up to a given time in the past:
  • I had finished the article when they said it was dinner time.
  • Yesterday evening at nine o'clock I had already finished the videogame.
  • She hadn't arrived when we phoned.
Also in 3rd type conditional sentences:
  • If you had asked me, I wouldn't have let you go.
  • We wouldn't have solved the quiz if they hadn't helped us.

EXERCISES:
PAST PERFECT:
PAST PERFECT OR PAST SIMPLE:
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Monday, 2 December 2019

Past continuous tense


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Monday, 18 November 2019

Present simple, present continuous, past simple and past continuous


PRESENT SIMPLE




GRAMMAR:

EXERCISES
READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES

EXERCISES
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS





PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS

Past simple is often used for past events in a past time. Most stories are told using this tense and it is often used together with past continuous.

Past continuous or past progressive is one of the tenses we are going to study this year.

The following chart summarises the most important aspects you'll have to learn about both of them:


USES:
  • Past simple is used to tell about past event or stories:
    • We went to Ireland and there we met your sister.
    • My parents spent a weekend in Coruña but they didn't go to the port.
    • When did they release the film? Last Friday?
  • Past continuous is often used to talk about what was happening at a specific time in the past (talking about memories...)
    • We were watching the film at lunch time.
  • Two past continuous tenses can be used to talk about long, simultaneous actions in the past:
    • We were studying while the dogs were barking in the yard.
  • Both tenses are used to talk about something that happened at one point (in the past simple) while a longer action was taking place (in the past continuous). In this use, the clause referring to the longer action, is often introduced by while or as; or, alternatively, the shorter action clauses is introduced by when:
    • We weren't watching the film when my sister rang.
    • They found the lost key as they were having a walk along the river.
    • Myrtle broke here leg while she was exercising in the park.

EXERCISES:

past simple
past continuous
contrast:
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Friday, 8 November 2019

Past simple tense

When is the past simple tense used?

  • For completed action in the past (We saw your sister yesterday.)
  • For a series of completed actions (I woke up, had a shower, had breakfast and went to school.)
  • For longer actions that start and stop in the past; time expressions usually go with it (My sister lived in London for years.)
  • For talking about habits which stopped in the past (She studied Japanese when she was in high school.)
  • For past facts or generalizations (Old people never played football.)
How is it made?
  • Positive sentence → Subject + verb+ ed or irregular form (I played with her.- She came with us.)
  • Questions → Auxiliary verb + subject +verb (Did they read the story?)
  • Negative sentence → Subject + auxiliary verb + verb ( I didn’t like it.) 




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Friday, 25 October 2019

Present simple and present continuous



PRESENT SIMPLE

GRAMMAR:

EXERCISES
READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES

EXERCISES










DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS







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Friday, 18 October 2019

Present continuous


PRESENT CONTINUOUS

EXERCISES
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS





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Thursday, 10 October 2019

Present simple tense




    PRESENT SIMPLE
    form
    • affirmative: subject + infinitive (+3rd p –(e)s)
    • negative: subject + don’t/doesn’t + infinitive
    • question: do/does + subject + infinitive
    Remember that we only add the –(e)s in the 3rd person affirmative form and that be is an exception: am / is / are

    use
    • facts and permanent states.
    • habits and routines
    • 1st type conditional sentences
    • stative verbs that are not used in the pres. cont. (see, hear, believe, want, know, understand, think, like, love...)
    Key words: how often / always / sometimes / often / never / usually / every day / once a week / twice a month... / if (in conditional sentences)

     examples

    • Snow melts at 0ºC.
    • Harry lives in Liverpool.
    • My dog plays football with us.
    • Daniel washes his jacket every week.
    • We don’t like football.
    • She doesn’t understand baseball.
    • Do you enjoy dining out?
    • Does Rafael Nadal train in the morning?
    • If you drink too much you’ll have to go to the toilet.




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    Thursday, 19 September 2019

    More about irregular verbs



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    Thursday, 25 July 2019

    Present simple and present continuous


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    Wednesday, 24 July 2019

    Past simple and present perfect


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    Tuesday, 23 July 2019

    Past simple and past continuous


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    Tuesday, 26 February 2019

    Revision for 4º ESO exam

    GRAMMAR:
    Revision of tenses
    Charts of tenses
    More tenses and exercises:
    Comparatives and superlatives
    Used to / didn't use to
    Conditional sentences
    Passive sentences

    VOCABULARY:
    Some- / any- compounds
    Marketing

    INTERACTION:
    At the restaurant
    Shopping for clothes
    Asking for a refund

    WRITING
    How to write an essay
    Describing a process
    Connectors


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    Revision for 3º ESO exam

    GRAMMAR:
    Revision of tenses
    Charts of tenses
    More tenses and exercises:
    Comparatives and superlatives
    Conditional sentences
    Quantifiers in English

    VOCABULARY:
    Places in a town
    Travel checklists
    Travelling
    Food

    INTERACTION:
    At the restaurant
    Shopping for clothes
    Asking for a refund

    WRITING
    How to write an essay
    Connectors


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    Sunday, 17 February 2019

    Revision of basic tenses






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    Thursday, 7 February 2019

    Conditional sentences


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    Tuesday, 5 February 2019

    Future tenses: going to and will


    These are some interesting websites to revise future tenses in English at lower intermediate level:
    GOING TO:
    WILL:
    Mixed tenses:
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    Monday, 5 November 2018

    Past simple & past continuous

    Past simple is often used for past events in a past time. Most stories are told using this tense and it is often used together with past continuous.

    Past continuous or past progressive is one of the tenses we are going to study this year.

    The following chart summarises the most important aspects you'll have to learn about both of them:


    USES:
    • Past simple is used to tell about past event or stories:
      • We went to Ireland and there we met your sister.
      • My parents spent a weekend in Coruña but they didn't go to the port.
      • When did they release the film? Last Friday?
    • Past continuous is often used to talk about what was happening at a specific time in the past (talking about memories...)
      • We were watching the film at lunch time.
    • Two past continuous tenses can be used to talk about long, simultaneous actions in the past:
      • We were studying while the dogs were barking in the yard.
    • Both tenses are used to talk about something that happened at one point (in the past simple) while a longer action was taking place (in the past continuous). In this use, the clause referring to the longer action, is often introduced by while or as; or, alternatively, the shorter action clauses is introduced by when:
      • We weren't watching the film when my sister rang.
      • They found the lost key as they were having a walk along the river.
      • Myrtle broke here leg while she was exercising in the park.
    VIDEOS AND PRESENTATIONS





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    Sunday, 21 October 2018

    Revision of present simple and present continuous

    PRESENT SIMPLE


    GRAMMAR:

    EXERCISES
    READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES

    EXERCISES








    DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS




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