VERB TENSES REVISION2ND BACHILLERATO

PRESENT TENSESPRESENT SIMPLE

A regular habit or a general fact.

PRESENT CONTINUOUSSomething that is happening now.A future plan. Restrictions: some verbs aren’t generally in the

continuous (love, like, remember, thing…)

PAST TENSESPAST SIMPLE.

A completed action in the past.PAST CONTINUOUS.

An incomplete action interrupted by another action in the past.

A continuous action in the past.PAST PERFECT (HAD + PARTICIPLE).

An action that happened BEFORE another past action.

FUTURE TENSESWILL

Predictions.Spontaneous decisions.

GOING TOA planned future action.A future event based on present evidence.

FUTURE CONTINUOUS (WILL BE + V-ING)An action in progress at a certain future time.

FUTURE PERFECT (WILL HAVE + PARTICIPLE) A complete action at a certain future time.

PRESENT PERFECT / PAST SIMPLEPRESENT PERFECT (HAVE/HAS +

PARTICIPLE)An action that happened in the past and it’s

still relevant to the present.An action that started in the past and still

continues up to the present. PAST SIMPLE

A completed action in the past.