Review verbal tenses

Present simple
• For daily routines
• Habits
• Facts
• Words: Adverbs of frequency (always, usually, normally, never, hardly
ever, etc)
• Frequency expressions (once a ____, twice a ____, three times a _____,
every _____.
 Present simple

Affirmative form Negative form

• S + V (s, es, ies) + C • S + DON’T + V + C
• I live in Santiago DOESN’T

• Mathew lives in London • I don’t live in Santiago

• My brother studies English twice • Mathew doesn’t live in London
a week.
 Present continuous
• For activities happening now
• Temporary
• Future arrangement.
• Words: Now, at the moment, today, this morning, currently, etc.
 Present continuous

Affirmative form Negative form

• S + BE + V ing + C
• I’m teaching the verbal tenses
• Some of my students are working
from home
• I’m watching ‘El Jardin de
Bronce’!
• S + BE NOT + V ing + C
• I’m not going out these days
• You aren’t paying attention
• I’m not reading anything at the
moment
 Present perfect
• For unfinished actions
• Something that happened short time ago (no details)
• Life experiences
• Words: just, already, yet, always, never, for, since, so far
 Present perfect

Affirmative form Negative form

• S + HAVE + V (PP) + C
HAS
• I ‘ve worked online since ‘social
explosion’
• My mum has eaten figs all her life
• S + HAVEN’T + V (PP) + C
HASN’T
• I haven’t seen Stars Wars
• She hasn’t eaten snails
 Past simple
• Past action

• Words: last ____, _____ ago, yesterday, the day before yesterday, in (year,
month), on (day, date)
 Past simple

Affirmative form Negative form

• S + V (PAST) + C • S + DIDN’T´+ V + C
• I went to my office three weeks • I didn’t go out last weekend
ago • A lot of people didn’t work
• A lot of people in the world stayed yesterday.
at home yesterday.
 Past continuous
• Actions in past!!

• Words: While, when

 Past continuous

Affirmative form Negative form

• S + WAS/ WERE + V ing + C
• I was watching TV when I heard
we were in total quarantine
• They were playing football when
their mum called them
• S + wasn’t /weren’t + V ing + C
• I wasn’t listening to the teacher
when she said we had a test soon
• We weren’t going out a lot before
the quarantine, now I regret it
 Past perfect
• Something happened before another event happened
• Words: already, just, before, not yet, never, once, until that day
 Past perfect

Affirmative form Negative form

• S + HAD + V (PP) + C
• I had never cooked before that day
on the beach
• When she turned on the TV the
news had already started
• S + HADN’T + V (PP) + C
• I hadn’t seen a rhino before I went
to Africa
• She hadn’t talked to her mum for
a long time. Then she decided to
call her
 Will (future)

• Instant decisions
• Promises , threats, offers
• Predictions (based on feelings)
 Will

Affirmative form Negative form

• S + WILL + V + C • S + WON’T + V + C
• After classes, I think I will watch • Some people won’t go back to
TV their offices anymore.
• I will always love you! • I won’t call him!
 Be going to

• Plans and intentions

• Predictions based on evidence
 Be going to

Affirmative form Negative form

• S + be + going to + V+ C
• I’m going to rest on Saturday
• My friends are going to travel in
the summer
• S + be not + going to + V + C
• I’m not going to stay at home on
Sunday
• He isn’t going to call his
girlfriend.