Present Simple
Present Continuous
USE
We use the present simple to talk about habitsand routines.
We use the present continuous to talk about actions happening in the moment of speaking.
AUXILIARY
To form the present simple we need the auxiliary verd DO. DOES for he,she,it.To form the present continuous tense we need the auxiliary verb BE in the present simple (am, is are)
AFFIRMATIVE
FORM
The verb doesn't change except for third person of singular(He, She, It) which adds -s.
I play- He plays
We use the present simple of BE (am, is, are) + VERB in ING
form
I am playing basketball.
NEGATIVE FORM
We use don't before the verb and doesn't for the third person of singularI don't go to school on Saturday. She doesn't go to school on Saturday.
We use the present simple of BE in the negative form (I'm not, isn't, aren't) and the VERB in ING form.
I'm not playing basketball. She isn't playing basketball They aren't playing basketball
INTERROGATIVE
FORM
We place the auxilary verb before the subject. DO/ DOES
Do you go to schoolon Saturday? No, I don't Does she go to school on Saturday?
We place the auxiliary verb TO BE before the subject. Are you playing basketball? Yes, I am
Is he playing basketball? No, he isn't Are they playing basketball? Yes, they are.
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We use the Past Simple to talk about actions started and finished in the past.
•
I played with my friends at the park yesterday.
•
I didn't watch TV last night.
1.Regular Verbs
To form the past simple tense of
regular verbs
you must add
-ed
to the infinitive.
Play-play
ed
Study- stud
ied
Visit- visit
ed
In the negative and the interrogative you need the auxiliary verb
DIDN'T/DID
•
I
didn't study
for my exam, so I
failed
. *
•
Did
she
play
computer games last night? Yes, she did/ No she didn't.*
*Fixa't com al utilitzar l'auxiliar, el verb ja no s'ha de posar en passat ja que l'auxiliar ja ens indica en quin temps
verbal estem parlant
2.Irregular Verbs
Irregular verbs
have
no rules
. You must learn them by hard. They've got a different word to form the past
simple.
•
I
went
to bed late last night
•
She
wrote
an e-mail to her English friend yesterday.
Go-
went
Do-
did
Make-
made
See-
saw
Write-
wrote
*For negative and interrogative irregular verbs follow the same rules as the regular verbs.
•
I
didn't go
to bed late last night.
•
She
didn't write
an e-mail yesterday.
•
Did
she
write
an e-mail yesterday? Yes, she did/ No, she didn't.
3.To be
It
is an irregular verb but it doesn't need an auxilary verb to form the negative or the interrogative forms.
•
When I
was
6, I
was
very naughty.
•
I
wasn't
at the park yesterday afternoon.
PRESENT SIMPLE
PAST SIMPLE
USE
We use the Present Simple to talk aboutactions that are repeated.(habits) It is also used to talk about general truth.
We use the past simple to talk about finished actions that happened in a definite point in the past.
FORM
Affirmative
I go to school everyday. I went to school yesterdayNegative
I don't go to school on Saturday. I didn't go to school yesterday.Interrogative
Do you go to school on Monday? Did you go to school yesterday?AUXILIARY VERB
DO/DOES DIDOTHER FEATURES
The 3rd person singular (he/she/it) adds an -s in the affirmative form.In the negative and in the interrogative we use the
auxiliary verb DOES/ DOESN'T and the verb in the base form.
There are two kind of verbs: REGULAR AND IRREGULAR.
The general rule to form the past of regular verbs is by adding -ed to the base form.
Irregular verbs have no rules and you must learn them by heart.
