💗resent 💗imple

➕ verb/verb + (e)s
ex: He plays tennis.
➖ do/does not + verb
ex: She doesn't play tennis.
⁉ do/does... + verb?
ex: Do you play tennis?

We use the present simple:

✅to talk about regular habits or repeated actions:
I get up really early and practise for an hour or so most days;

✅to talk about permanent situations:
My parents own a restaurant;

✅to talk about facts or generally accepted truths:
Students don't generally have much money;

✅to give instructions and directions:
You go down to the traffic lights, then you turn left;

✅to tell stories and talk about films, books and plays:
In the film, the tea lady falls in love with the Prime Minister;

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🩷resent 🩷ontinuous

➕ am/is/are + verb + _ing
ex: He's living in Thailand
➖ am/is/are not + verb + _ing
ex: I'm not living in Thailand
⁉ am/is/are... + verb + _ing?
ex: Are they living in Thailand?

We use the present continuous:
🔵 to talk about temporary situations;
🔵 to talk about actions happening at the moment of speaking;
🔵 to talk about trends or changing situations;
🔵 to talk about things that happen more often than expected, often to show envy or to criticise with words like always, constantly, continually, forever.


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✨ Fill in the gaps which the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

🩷 I'm busy right now. I ... ... ( fill in ) an application form for a new job.
🩷 My tutor ... ... ( see ) me for a tutorial every Monday at two o'clock.
🩷 John ... ...(not/study) very hard at the moment. I ... ... (not/think) he’ll pass his exams.
❤️ ‘What ... ... (he/do)?' ‘He ... ... (try) to fix the television aerial.’
🩷 Animals ... ... (breathe in) oxygen and ... ... (give out) carbon dioxide.
🩷 Be quiet! I ... ... (want) to hear the news.
🩷 In my country we ... ... (drive) on the right-hand side of the road.
🩷 My friend Joe’s parents ... ... (travel) round the world this summer, and probably won’t be back for a couple of months.
🩷 The college ... ... (run) the same course every year.
🩷🩷 Numbers of wild butterflies ... ... (fall) as a result of changes in farming methods.

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🩷ast 🩷imple

➕ verb + -ed (or -d)
ex: He worked for the police.
➖ did not + verb
ex: She didn't work for the police
⁉ did ... + verb?
ex: Did they work for the police?

We use the past simple:
📍 to talk about single past completed actions;
📍 to give a series of actions in the order that they happened;
📍 to talk about past repeated actions;
📍 to talk about long-term situations in the past which are no longer true;

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🩷ast 🩷ontinuous

➕was/were + verb + -ing
ex: She was watching the news.
➖ was/were not + verb + -ing
ex: They weren’t watching the news.
⁉ was/were ... + verb + -ing?
ex: Were you watching the news?

We use the past continuous:
🌟to provide the background scene to an action or event (usually in the past simple);
🌟when we want to emphasize the activity without focusing on it's completion;


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🩷sed to and 🩷ould

➕used to / would + infinitive
ex: She used to / would lock the door
➖ did not + use to + infinitive
ex: I didn ’t use to lock the door
❓did ... use to + infinitive?
ex: Did they use to lock the door?

❕ We use used to + infinitive or would + infinitive (contracted to ’d in spoken English) to talk about past repeated actions;
❕ We use used to + infinitive to talk about permanent situations that are usually no longer true;
❕ We do not use used to if we want to talk about how long the situation lasted;
❕ We do not use would with state verbs.

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🩷resent 🩷erfect 🩷imple

➕have/has + past participle
ex: She’s started the assignment
➖have/has not + past participle
ex: haven’t started the assignment
❓have/has ... + past participle?
ex: Have you started the assignment?

❕ We use the present perfect simple:
📍to talk about a time period that is not finished (e.g. today, this week);
📍to show that something happened at some point in the past before now. We don’t state when it happened;
📍to talk about a present situation which started in the past, usually with for/since;
📍to talk about something that happened at an unstated time in the past but is connected to the present;

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🩷resent 🩷erfect 🩷ontinuous

❕ We can use either the present perfect simple or the present perfect continuous to say how long a situation or activity has been going on (often with /or or since):
🌟I've felt tired for weeks.
🌟I've been feeling tired since I started this course.
🌟I've worked at the restaurant since I moved here.
🌟I've been working at the restaurant for three years.

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