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LESSON 3

Present simple:

is being used:

- when (an action is happening right now, or when) it happens regularly.

- the simple present tense is formed by using the root form or by adding s
or es to the end.
Examples of the Present Simple

- The sun sets in the west.

- We produce lasers for cosmetic surgery.
- They move into their new home next week.
- So, I go to Mr. D and say “I deserve a better mark in this class”.
- Jones stops in mid-court and passes the ball to Schuster.
Time Expressions in the Present Simple

The most common time expressions in the present simple are: usually,
always, never, on Wednesdays, every Wednesday, twice a week, once a
month, in general, every other day.
Time expressions made up of one word are placed between the
subject and the verb in positive sentences and questions and between
the auxiliary verb and main verb in negative sentences.
1. I always study hard for exams.
2. Do you usually speak to him like that?
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Time expressions made up of two or more words are placed either at

the beginning or the end of a sentence and usually at the end of
questions.
1. Ben goes to football practice every Tuesday.
2. In general, I believe that all people can live in peace.
3. Do you go to the supermarket every week?

Present continuous:

is being used:

- to describe an action that is going on at this moment:

You are using the Internet. You are studying English grammar.
- to describe an action that is going on during this period of time or a trend:
Are you still working for the same company?
More and more people are becoming vegetarian.
- to describe an action or event in the future, which has already been planned or prepared:
- We're going on holiday tomorrow. I'm meeting my boyfriend tonight. Are they
visiting you next winter?
- to describe a temporary event or situation:
- He usually plays the drums, but he's playing bass guitar tonight. The weather forecast
was good, but it's raining at the moment.
- with "always, forever, constantly", to describe and emphasise a continuing series of
repeated actions:
- Harry and Sally are always arguing! You're constantly complaining about your mother-
in-law!

its is beign marked: inflected form of verb be + ing

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Past simple:

- The simple past, past simple, or past indefinite, is the basic form of
the past tense in Modern English. It is used principally to describe
events in the past although it also has some other uses.
- Regular English verbs form the simple past in -ed; however, there are a
few hundred irregular verbs with different forms.

- Past continuous:
- The past continuous is made from the past tense of the verb be and the –
ing form of a verb.
- for something which happened before and after another action:
- The children were doing their homework when I got home.
- Compare: The children did their homework when (= after) I got home.

Present Simple Other Verbs Mixed Exercise 1

Make the present simple. Choose positive, negative or question.

1) (he / drive to work every CHEC

day) K
SHO
[.] W

CHEC
2) (I / not / think you're right) K
SHO
[.]
W
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CHEC
3) (we / have enough time)? K
SHO
[.]
W

CHEC
4) (I / eat cereal in the morning) K
SHO
[.]
W

5) (they / write e-mails every CHEC

day)? K
SHO
[.] W

CHEC
6) (you / watch a lot of TV) K
SHO
[.]
W

7) (he / not / read the CHEC

newspaper) K
SHO
[.] W

8) (she / dance often)?

[.]

correct answers:

Simple present exercise

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Choose Past Simple or Past Continuous 2

Make the past simple or past continuous tense

1) We
CHEC
(eat) dinner at 8pm last night (we started eating at K
7:30). SHO
W
[.]

CHEC
K
2) Yesterday I SHO
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(go) to the Post Office,

(buy) some fruit at the supermarket and

W
(read) a book in the park in the afternoon.
[ . ][ . ][ . ]

3) We
CHEC
(watch) TV when we K
SHO
(hear) a loud noise.
W
[ . ][ . ]

4) Julie
CHEC
(be) in the garden when Laurence K
SHO
(arrive).
W
[ . ][ . ]

5) A: What
CHEC
(do) at 3pm yesterday? B: I K
SHO
(clean) my house.
W
[ . ][ . ]

6) Last year I CHEC

K
(visit) Paris and Rome. SHO
[.] W

7) They CHEC
K
(have) dinner when the police SHO
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(come) to the door.

W
[ . ][ . ]

8) He
CHEC
(work) in the garden when he K
SHO
(find) the money.
W
[ . ][ . ]

9) Laura CHEC
K
(study) at 11pm last night. SHO
[.] W

10) He

(sleep) when the doorbell CHEC

K
(ring).
[ . ][ . ]

correct answers:

past simple or continuous exercise

LESSON 4
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2011 2019

I had gone to elementary School in 2011. After I had finished, I went to secondary
school in 2019

2023.10.17 24. 25.

present continuous We study vocatinonal English on every Tuesday.
We are studying. I have done the homework.
She has done the homework.

present perfect:

The present perfect is formed from the present tense of the verb have and
the past participle of a verb.
HAVE/HAS + IGE 3
We use the present perfect:
for something that started in the past and continues in the present:
They've been married for nearly fifty years.
She has lived in Liverpool all her life.
 when we are talking about our experience up to the present:
I've seen that film before.
I've played the guitar ever since I was a teenager.
He has written three books and he is working on another one.

present perfect continuous:

The present perfect continuous (also known as the present perfect

progressive) is a verb tense used to talk about something that started in the
past and is continuing at the present time.
I have been reading War and Peace for a month now.
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how it is formed:
have been + (verb + ing)

past perfect:

The past perfect is made from the verb had and the past participle of a verb:
I had finished the work.
She had gone.

past perfect continuous:

The past perfect continuous (also known as the past perfect progressive) is a verb
tense that shows that an action that started in the past continued up until another time in
the past.

The formula for the past perfect continuous tense is had been + [present participle
(root form of verb + -ing)].

Unlike the present perfect continuous, which indicates an action that began in the past
and has continued up to the present, the past perfect continuous indicates something
that began in the past, continued in the past, and also ended at a defined point in the
past.
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He had been drinking milk out the carton when Mom walked into the kitchen.

Choose present perfect simple or continuous 1

1) CHEC
K
(they/arrive) already? SHO
[.] W

CHEC
2) Lucy has run 2000 metres today. K
SHO
[.]
W

CHEC
3) I have been cleaning all morning - I'm fed up! K
SHO
[.]
W

4) How long CHEC

K
have you known Simon? SHO
[.] W

5) I CHEC
K
have been drinking more water recently, and I feel better. SHO
[.] W

6) Sorry about the mess! I have baked. CHEC

K
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(bake). SHO
W
[.]

7) How many times CHEC

K
have you taken this exam? SHO
[.] W

CHEC
8) He have been eating six bars of chocolate today. K
SHO
[.]
W

9) Julie CHEC
K
has cooked dinner. Let's go and eat! SHO
[.] W

10) The students CHEC

K
have finished their exams. They're very happy. SHO
[.] W

11) The baby's face is really dirty. What CHEC

K
(he/eat)? SHO
[.] W

12) Iona is exhausted these days. She CHEC

K
(work) too hard recently. SHO
[.] W
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13) Luke CHEC

K
(never/be) abroad. SHO
[.] W

14) I CHEC
K
(wait) three hours already! SHO
[.] W

15) CHEC
K
(you/finish) your homework yet? SHO
[.] W

16) How long CHEC

K
(you/be) a lawyer? SHO
[.] W

17) I
CHEC
(read) your book all day. It's very interesting, but I'm only on K
chapter 2. SHO
W
[.]

18) She CHEC

K
(drink) ten glasses of water! SHO
[.] W

19) I CHEC
K
(have) my dog for sixteen years. SHO
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[.] W

20) Help, I CHEC

K
(lose) my wallet. How can I get home? SHO
[.] W

correct answers:

Present perfect simpre or continuous

2B Grammar - Past Simple x Past Continuous x Past

Perfect (gap-fill exercise)
Read the text and fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verb (past simple x past continuous
x past perfect). Then press "Check" to check your answers. You can also click on the "[?]" button
to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for clues!

When I was little my dad [?] (bring) me home a goldfish. I was delighted but something soon

went wrong. My parents [?] (talk) to some friends who had come to visit us, and I was a bit

bored so I [?] (go) into the kitchen to see my goldfish. I [?] (sit) on the chair at the table and

watched the fish swimming around the bowl. Then, I [?] (notice) that there was a packet of

goldfish food which [?] (stand) on the table next to the goldfish bowl and I picked it up to look at

it. My parents [?] (tell) me never to feed the goldfish, but I [?] (think) it looked a bit hungry so

I [?] (decide) to feed it. First I could not open the packet and struggled with it for some time.

Then, unfortunately the lid came off the packet of goldfish food, and the entire contents [?] (spill)

into the water. The food [?] (float) on the surface of the water and I knew I was in trouble. I was

really embarrassed and I felt incredibly guilty because I [?] (be) so disobedient. I [?] (run) into

the living room crying and crying and eventually I told my parents what [?] (happen).
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They [?] (rush) into the living room to see the damage I [?] (do). My goldfish survived, though,

and went on to live for another two years. Of course I [?] (apologized) to my parents and

promised I would never do anything like that again. I learnt my lesson from my disobedience and

now I have to laugh at how silly I once used to be.

correct answers:

past simple X past continuous X past perfect

Past Perfect Continuous Positive

Make the past perfect continuous

1) I CHEC
K
(work) all day, so I didn't want to go out.. SHO
[.] W

2) She CHEC
K
(sleep) for ten hours when I woke her. SHO
[.] W

3) They CHEC
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(live) in Beijing for three years when he lost K

his job. SHO
W
[.]

4) When we met, you CHEC

K
(work) at that company for six months. SHO
[.] W

5) We CHEC
K
(eat) all day, so we felt a bit ill. SHO
[.] W

6) He was red in the face because he

CHEC
(run) . K
[.]

correct answers:

past perfect continuous

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KEY:

PR. simple

1. He drives to work every day.

2. I don’t think you're right.

3. Do we have enough time?

4. I eat cereal in the morning.

5. Do they write e-mails every day?

6. You watch a lot of TV.

7. He doesn’t read the newspaper.

8. Does she dance often?

Past simple/ past continuous

1. We were eating dinner at 8pm last night.

2. Yesterday I went to the post office, bought some fruit at the supermarket and read a book in the
park in the afternoon.

3. We were watching TV when we heard a loud noise.

4. Julie was in the garden when Laurence arrived.

5. A: What were you doing at 3pm yesterday? B: I was cleaning my house.

6. Last year I visited Paris and Rome.

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7. They were having dinner when the police arrived.

8. He was working in the garden when he found the money.

9. Laura was studying at 11pm last night.

10. I was walking along the road when I met an old friend.

Present perfect/ present perfect continuous

1. Have they arrived already?

2. Lucy has run 2000 metres today.

3. I've been cleaning all morning – I'm fed up!

4. How long have you known Simon?

5. I've been drinking more water lately and I feel better.

6. Sorry about the mess! I've been baking.

7. How many times have you taken this exam?

8. He has eaten six bars of chocolate today!

9. Julie has cooked dinner. Let's go and eat!

10. The students have finished their exams. They're very happy.

11. The baby's face is really dirty! What has he been eating?

12. Iona is exhausted these days. She has been working too hard recently.

13. Luke has never been abroad.

14. I've been waiting for three hours already!

15. Have you finished your homework yet?

16. How long have you been a lawyer?

17. I've been reading your book all day. It's very interesting, but I'm only on chapter

18. She has drunk ten glasses of water!

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19. I've had my dog for sixteen years.

20. Help! I've lost my wallet! How can I get home

past simple X past cont. X past perf

When I was little my dad brought (bring) me home a goldfish. I was delighted but something
soon went wrong. My parents were talking (talk) to some friends who had come to visit us, and I
was a bit bored so I went (go) into the kitchen to see my goldfish. I sat (sit) on the chair at the
table and watched the fish swimming around the bowl. Then, I noticed (notice) that there was a
packet of goldfish food which was standing (stand) on the table next to the goldfish bowl and I
picked it up to look at it. My parents had told (tell) me never to feed the goldfish, but
I thought (think) it looked a bit hungry so I decided (decide) to feed it. First I could not open the
packet and struggled with it for some time. Then, unfortunately the lid came off the packet of
goldfish food, and the entire contents spilled (spill) into the water. The food was floating (float)
on the surface of the water and I knew I was in trouble. I was really embarrassed and I felt
incredibly guilty because I had been (be) so disobedient. I ran (run) into the living room crying
and crying and eventually I told my parents what had happened (happen). They rushed (rush)
into the living room to see the damage I have done. My goldfish survived, though, and went on
to live for another two years. Of course I apologized (apologized) to my parents and promised I
would never do anything like that again. I learnt my lesson from my disobedience and now I
have to laugh at how silly I once used to be.

past perfect continuous:

1. I had been working all day, so I didn't want to go out.

2. She had been sleeping for ten hours when I woke her.
3. They had been living in Beijing for three years when he lost his job.
4. When we met, you had been working at that company for six months.
5. We had been eating all day, so we felt a bit ill.
6. He was red in the face because he had been running.
7. It had been raining, and the road was covered in water.
8. I was really tired because I had been studying.
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9. We had been going out for three years when we got married.
10. It had been snowing for three days