Present and past tenses 4MT

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• Secundair onderwijs

He was always jumping

1. past simple
2. past continuous
3. present simpe
4. present continuous

He had just returned from the supermarket (when Mark arrived)

1. past simple
2. past continuous
3. past perfect
4. past perfect continuous

Grammar review

Tenses

Tenses

• Theory: tense, time and aspect
• Formation
• Usage
• Common mistakes and difficulties

Om te praten over iets dat aan de gang is rond een bepaald tijdstip, gebruiken we de ...

1. Simple
2. Continuous
3. Perfect
4. Perfect continuous

Om te praten over iets dat vóór iets anders gebeurt

1. Simple
2. Continuous
3. Perfect
4. Perfect Continuous

Tenses

• Theory: tense, time and aspect
• Formation
• Usage
• Common mistakes and difficulties

Present

Past

Future

Simple

Continuous

Perfect

Perfect cont.

I work

I worked

I will work

I am working

I was working

I had worked

I have worked

I have been working

I had been working

Form the 3rd person plural
past perfect of 'to go':
they ...

2nd person singular
present continuous of to fly:
You ...

Question form of to walk in third person singular past simple

Tenses

• Theory: tense, time and aspect
• Formation
• Usage
• Common mistakes and difficulties

Present simple

• Habits: I play football every Thursday.
• Permanent situation: I live in Brussels.
• Facts and general truths: Water freezes at 0° and boils at 100°C. 

Present continuous

• Focus now: I speak French BUT I am speaking French now.
• Temporary/changing situation: I'm working late this week.
• Action in progress: I’m reading a good book at the moment.
• Irritating repeating action: I’m always being turned down for jobs I can do! 

Present perfect simple

• A present situation that makes you look back: It has been ages since I last saw her.
• Something that started in the past/earlier, up till now with focus on result: My sister has baked a pie.
• Signal words: For, Since, Yet, Already, Up to now 
  

Present perfect continuous

• Actions that started in the past and are continuing in the present. Focus on activity, not on result: My sister has been baking pies all morning.

Past simple

• Actions completed in the past: I saw a movie yesterday.
• Short past actions that follow one another (e.g. a story): The movie received such bad reviews that it closed within a week after opening.

Past continuous

• Actions going on in the past (focus on duration): Were they dancing at last night’s party?
• Actions going on in the past, interrupted by a short past action: Daniel was reading when his mother came in.
• Past actions happening at the same time.

Past perfect

• To talk about time up to a certain point in the past: She had published her first poem by the time she was eight.
• The earlier of two past actions: When the police arrived, the thief had escaped.
• After certain adverbs

In which of the following cases can you immediately start enjoying some pie?

1. your friend bakes a pie
2. your friend baked a pie
3. your friend has baked a pie
4. your friend is baking a pie

What's the difference...?

I bake a pie
I baked a pie
I have baked a pie
I had baked a pie
I am baking a pie
I was baking a pie

Tenses

• Theory: tense, time and aspect
• Formation
• Usage
• Common mistakes and difficulties

Correct the common mistake:
she writed

Correct the common mistake:
he write

Correct the common mistake:
Did you wrote?