Topic 5 Overview of all the 12
Tenses
I.
Present Tenses II.
Past Tenses III. Future Tenses
A. Simple
i) Verb-to-be
Tenses am/
is / are was / were shall / will be
ii)
Ordinary Verbs
[He/ She/ It] V + s / es F3
shall/
will V
[I/
We/ You/You/ They] V
B. Continuous
Tenses am/is/ are F2 was /
were F2 shall/will
be F2
C. Perfect
i)
Verb-to-be
Tenses have / has been had been shall / will have been
ii) Ordinary Verb
have/ has F4 had F4 shall/ will have F4
D. Perfect
Continuous have /has been F2 had been F2 shall/will have been F2
Tenses
Functions (Can you tell what
tense each sentence/ clause is.)
Verb to be: 6 tenses to identify
Tom was ill/ sick last Friday, so he was absent from school. ( )
He is still sick today.
( )
He has been sick since last Friday. ( )
If he still has not recovered tomorrow, he will have been sick
for 8 days.
( )
You will be sick if you eat so much fried food. ( )
Tom was
really sick last month. ( )
He had been
so sick that he stayed in bed for a week.
(
)
Ordinary verbs: Let’s use a word in 12 tenses in the Active Voice
If you can understand,
you can use the right words at will.
Let’s use the word
“watch”:
Hassan watches
TV every day. ( )
Look, he is watching
TV now. ( )
He will have
watched for for one and a half hours if they watch for another 10 minutes. ( )
He has watched
the cartoon programme “Pocahontas”. ( )
He has been
watching TV since 8am. (
)
He will have
been watching TV for 3 hours if he watches
for another 15 minutes.
( )
He watched
TV with his neighbours at home yesterday.
(
)
They were
watching the cartoon programme “The Adventure of Tom Sawyer”.
They had
watched 2 cartoon programmes at one go.
(
)
They had been
watching the cartoon programmes since they woke up.
( )
Hassan will
watch TV with Rahman tomorrow at James’ house. ( )
They will be
watching the movie “Charlie Chaplin and a child” together.
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