WEEK 15 F2 offline pdPr

 ๐Ÿ“š SUBJECT : English 

๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿป‍๐Ÿซ TEACHER : Miss Amalina 

๐Ÿ•ฐ️ TIME : 4.50 - 5.30 pm

๐Ÿ“ฒ MODE: TUTORIAL (OFFLINE)

๐Ÿ“ TITLE: TENSES (PAST, PRESENT)

๐Ÿ’ฌINSTRUCTIONS: 

A) We will revise tenses for today

1. Read the notes here carefully.

THE SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE is used:

  • For habits
    He drinks tea at breakfast.
    She only eats fish.
    They watch television regularly.
  • For repeated actions or events
    We catch the bus every morning.
    It rains every afternoon in the hot season.
    They drive to Monaco every summer.
  • For general truths
    Water freezes at zero degrees.
    The Earth revolves around the Sun.
    Her mother is Peruvian.
  • For instructions or directions
    Open the packet and pour the contents into hot water.
    You take the No.6 bus to Watney and then the No.10 to Bedford.
  • For fixed arrangements
    His mother arrives tomorrow.
    Our holiday starts on the 26th March

 

THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS is 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

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!

 

Constructing present continuous:

Affirmative

Subject

to be

+ base + ing

She

is

talking.

Negative

Subject

to be + not

+ base + ing

She

is not (isn't)

talking

Interrogative

to be

+ subject

+ base + ing

Is

she

talking?

 

 

Words that ARE NOT used with present continuous:

SENSES / PERCEPTION
  • to hear
  • to smell
  • to taste
OPINION
  • to assume
  • to believe
  • to consider
  • to doubt
  • to feel (= to think)
  • to find (= to consider)
  • to suppose
MENTAL STATES
  • to forget
  • to imagine
  • to know
  • to mean
  • to notice
  • to recognise
  • to remember
  • to understand
EMOTIONS / DESIRES
  • to envy
  • to fear
  • to dislike
  • to hate
  • to hope
  • to like
  • to love
  • to mind
  • to prefer
  • to regret
  • to want
MEASUREMENT
  • to contain
  • to cost
  • to hold
  • to measure
  • to weigh

SIMPLE PAST TENSE IS USED:

  • frequencyoften, sometimes, always
    I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.
    I often brought my lunch to school.
  • a definite point in timelast week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago
    We saw a good film last week.
    Yesterday, I arrived in Geneva.
    She finished her work atseven o'clock
    went to the theatre last night
  • an indefinite point in timethe other day, ages ago, a long time ago
    People lived in caves a long time ago.
    She played the piano when she was a child.

 

Constructing simple past tense:

Affirmative

Subject

+ verb + ed

 

I

skipped.

 

Negative

Subject

+ did not

+ infinitive without to

They

didn't

go.

Interrogative

Did

+ subject

+ infinitive without to

Did

she

arrive?

Interrogative negative

Did not

+ subject

+ infinitive without to

Didn't

you

play?

TO WALK

Affirmative

Negative

Interrogative

I walked

I didn't walk

Did I walk?

You walked

You didn't walk

Did you walk?

He walked

He didn't walk

Did he walk?

We walked

We didn't walk

Did we walk?

They walked

They didn't walk

Did they walk?

 

PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE IS USED:

  • Often, to describe the background in a story written in the past tense

The sun was shining and the birds were singing as the elephant came out of the jungle. The other animals were relaxing in the shade of the trees, but the elephant moved very quickly. She was looking for her baby, and she didn't notice the hunter who was watching her through his binoculars. When the shot rang out, she was running towards the river.

  • to describe an unfinished action that was interrupted by another event or action

was having a beautiful dream when the alarm clock rang.

  • to express a change of mind

was going to spend the day at the beach but I've decided to get my homework done instead.

  • with 'wonder', to make a very polite request

was wondering if you could baby-sit for me tonight.

Constructing Past Tense Continuous

Subject

was/were

base + ing

They

were

watching

Affirmative

She

was

reading

Negative

She

wasn't

reading

Interrogative

Was

she

reading?

Interrogative negative

Wasn't

she

reading?

TO PLAY, PAST CONTINUOUS

Affirmative

Negative

Interrogative

I was playing

I was not playing

Was I playing?

You were playing

You were not playing

Were you playing?

He was playing

He wasn't playing

Was he playing?

We were playing

We weren't playing

Were we playing?

They were playing

They weren't playing

Were they playing?

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