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Verb to be present / past
Used with names, birth, age, nationality, address, profession, description, emotions, locations, places
Present continuous
1 To talk about action happening at the moment.
2 Temporary actions
3 Future arrangements
Past continuous
1 Iinterrupted actions
2 Backgroud events
3 Temporary past actions
Present simple
1 Habits, customs, routines
2 Facts, states and general truth
3 Feelings and opinions
Frequency verbs
Always, almost always, often, frequently, normally, usually, sometimes, rarely, seldom, almost never, never
Time expressions
On Monsay/Friday/Weekends- Everyday, Daily, -In the morning/afternoon,- At midday/night/middnight, -From Monday to Friday, -Once/twice a week, once in a while
Past simple
1 Actions completed in the past
2 "Used to" to talk about a habit that is no longer true
3 A past state that has changed
4 To talk about a single action
Present perfect
1 Action started in the past and continues now
2 action completed in the indefinite time
3 Repeated action in the indefinite past
4 to emphasize that an action finished at an indefinite time
5 Action not done in the past but the intention to do it in the future exists
Present perfect continuous
1 An action or activity that started in the past and continues to the present
2 An activity when tha activity is more important than the result, it might or not be finished
Past perfect
1 Completed action that happened before another action in the past
Going to
1 Future prediction based on strong evidence
2 Future intentions, time may or may not be defined
3 in present continuous are
fixed future plans
Future Will
Future prediction based on a personal viewpoint
