Transcript TENSES

TENSES
and their functions
Автор:
Цветкова Татьяна Васильевна,
заместитель директора по УР,
учитель английского языка МБОУ
«Гимназия № 2»
1. How are you getting on?
2. We’re getting a boat to Athens and
flying back from there on Saturday.
3. I’m also learning judo.
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
PRESENT CONTINUOS
• ACTIVITIES GOING ON THE
TIME OF SPEAKING
• PERSONAL
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE
FUTURE
• TEMPORARY ROUTINE OR
HABITS
1. I play badminton and tennis
quite a lot.
2. The plane leaves quite late.
3. I’ll see you when we come back.
PRESENT SIMPLE
PRESENT SIMPLE
• Activities that are repeated
regularly
• Future facts
• Clauses of time and condition
1. I’m going to do an intensive
summer course.
2. Look! The child is climbing
the tree. He’s going to fall
down!
BE GOING TO
BE GOING TO
• INTENTIONS FOR THE
FUTURE
• FUTURE EVIDENCE
1. We’ll probably get home after
midnight.
2. I’ll see you when we get back.
will
will
• Prediction based on opinion,
belief or knowledge
• Decision about the future
taken at the moment of
speaking
I bought some really nice
things and I bargained a bit.
PAST SIMPLE
PAST SIMPLE
• Actions that happened at a
specific time in the past
We were going down a steep
path when I saw a huge
snake.
PAST CONTINUOUS
PAST CONTINUOUS
• ACTIVITIES THAT FORM A
BACKGROUND TO EVENTS
IN THE PAST
It had rained a lot the night
before and the ground was
very wet.
PAST PERFECT
PAST PERFECT
• Events that happened before
other past events
1. I haven’t got much time to
practise as I have been very
busy with busy with my exam.
2. One of the worst experiences
that has ever happened to me
was last year.
PRESENT PERFECT
PRESENT PERFECT
• Activities in the past where the
time is not important
• States that started in the past
and are still true
Have you been doing anything
interesting?
PRESENT PERFECT
CONTINUOUS
PRESENT PERFECT
CONTINUOUS
• Activities that started in the
past and continue up to now