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Future forms . How to use?

Future forms

 How to use ?

*Will+ Base forms

Use will to making  prediction,promises, offers or simple statements of fact about the future.shall is used to do something or to make a suggestion,shall is very formal

Examples:

- I will wait for you

·        -We’ll go to Japan next month 

*Be going to+ base form

Use  this auxiliary about intentions and future plans.

- We are going to  Ana’s party?
-I’m not going to travel to Spain last week

*Be+ Verb –ing

Use this estructure for future arragments , arragment is a plan for future that you have allredy.
-My mom and my father  are going to Alaska the next month.
-Anna's swimming the next weekend.

Past tenses

Quiz about sport

be going to,present continuos or wil (future plans)

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Activity: Sports

Vocabulary: Sports

• aerobicsa
• archery
• athletics
• baseball
• basketball
• billiards
• boxing
• bowling
• cycling
• diving

•  football (US)
• gymnastics
• golf
• handball
• hang-gliding
• hockey
• horse racing
•  ice skating
• jogging footing
• judo
• motorcycling
•  Racing
• Diving
• Shooting
• Kating
• Skiing
• soccer (US)
• softball
• swimming
• tennisping-pong
• taekwondo
• track and field
• volleyball
• weightlifting
• surfwrestling

Grammar ( simple past, past continuous, past perfect)

Simple past

Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past.

Regular verbs in simple past you have to add –ed or –ied:

play-Played

study-Studied

talk-talked

Also we have irregular verbs, in that change all the spelling:

get-got

write-wrote

read-read (in this cases, just change the pronuncation)

Example:

• I saw a movie yesterday.
• I see a play yesterday.

 1. Something that happened once in the past:

• I met my wife in 1983.

 2. Something that happened again and again in the past:

• When I was a boy I walked a mile to school every day.
• We swam a lot while we were on holiday.

Questions and negatives

When the sentences are in negative form or are questions, the auxiliary  is “did”

We use did to make questions with the past tense:

• When did you meet your wife?
• Where did you go for your holidays?
• Did she play tennis when she was younger?
• Did you live abroad? 

We use didn’t (did not) to make negatives with the past tense:

• They didn’t go to Spain this year.
• We didn’t get home until very late last night.
• I didn’t see you yesterday.

Past continuous

We often use the past continuous and the past simple tense together. When this happens, the past continuousdescribes a longer, ‘background’ action or situation and the past simple describes the action or events.

1.To difference at simple past in this case we have to say the period of time when the action happen, for example:

• Simple past. I did my homework yesterday.
• Past continuous. I was doing my homework at 8:00 p.m.

It is used for continuous actions in the past.

Subject     +      Was/Were      +      gerund 

Examples:

• I was sleeping.
• They were dancing.

We use the past continuous to say that something happened in the middle of something else:

• I was making a cake when my mom came.

Subject + wasn’t/weren’t +gerund

• John wasn’t eating because he was feeling sick.
• Jeff wasn’t watching TV.
• My parents weren’t having a good time because it was very cold in Canada.

Wh question + was/were + gerund

• What were you doing last night at around 8:00pm?
• Was Jim doing his homework
• Were they sleeping all morning?

Past perfect.

The Past Perfect tense in English is composed of two parts: the past tense of the verb to have (had) + the past participle of the main verb.

The past perfect refers to a time earlier than before now. It is used to make it clear that one event happened before another in the past. It does not matter which event is mentioned first - the tense makes it clear which one happened first.

A completed action before something else in the past.

When we arrived, the film had started. (= first the film started, then later we arrived)

To explain or give a reason for something in the past.

• I'd eaten dinner so I wasn't hungry.
• It had snowed in the night, so the bus didn't arrive.

 Stative verbs only: something that started in the past and continued up to another action in the past.

• When he graduated, he had been in London for six years. 
• When the sentence is negative we use had not/ hadn’t.
• He hadn’t been in his house the whole day.
• When the sentence is a question we use this structure:
• Had + you (person) + participle verb + complement
• Had she read a book before?

Grammar (simple present, present continuous and action / non-action)

Simple present

We use the present tense:

1. For repeated or regular actions in the present time period.

• I take the train to the office.
• John sleeps eight hours every night during the week.

2. For facts.

• The President of The USA lives in The White House.
• A dog has four legs.

3. For habits.

• I get up early every day.
• Carol brushes her teeth twice a day.

4. For things that are always / generally true.

• It rains a lot in winter.
• The Queen of England lives in Buckingham Palace.

We form the present tense using the base form of the infinitive (without the TO). In general, in the third person we add 'S' in the third person.

1. For verbs that end in -O, -CH, -SH, -SS, -X, or -Z we add -ES in the third person.

go – goes

catch – catches

wash – washes

kiss – kisses

fix – fixes

buzz – buzzes

2. For verbs that end in a consonant + Y, we remove the Y and add -IES.

marry – marries

study – studies

carry – carries

worry – worries

NOTE: For verbs that end in a vowel + Y, we just add -S.

play – plays

enjoy – enjoys

say – says

Negative sentences:

To make a negative sentence in English we normally use Don't or Doesn't with all verbs EXCEPT To Beand Modal verbs (can, might, should etc.).

• You don't speak French.
• He doesn't speak German.

When the subject is he, she or it, we add doesn't between the subject and the verb to make a negative sentence. Notice that the letter S at the end of the verb in the affirmative sentence (because it is in third person) disappears in the negative sentence.

Questions:

To make a question in English we normally use Do or Does. It has no translation in Spanish though it is essential to show we are making a question. It is normally put at the beginning of the question.

• Do you speak English? Yes, I do.
• Does he speak English? No, he doesn’t.

Present Continuous

1: we use it for things that are happening at the moment of speaking.

• I'm working at the moment.
• Please call back as– we are eating dinner now.
• Julie is sleeping.

2: We can use this tense for temporary situations, when we feel something won't continue for a long time.

• She's staying with her friend for a week.
• I'm living in London for a few months.
• John's working in a bar until he finds a job in his field.
• I'm reading a really great book.

Compare this with the present simple , which is used for permanent situations that we feel will continue for a long time.

3: We can use the present continuous for habits but they have to be temporary or new habits (for normal habits that continue for a long time, we use the present simple).

• He's eating a lot these days.
• She's swimming every morning (she didn't use to do this).
• You're smoking too much.
• They're working late every night.

4: for annoying habits, when we want to show that something happens too often and we don't like it. In this case we usually use an adverb like 'always', 'forever' or 'constantly'.

• You're always losing your keys!
• She's constantly missing the train.
• He's always sleeping in.
• They're forever being late.

5: definite future arrangements (with a future time word). In this case we have already made a plan and we are pretty sure that the event will happen in the future.

• I'm meeting my father tomorrow.
• We're going to the beach at the weekend.
• I'm leaving at three.
• They're coming to the party at the weekend.

6: we use this tense to talk about a situation which is slowly changing.

• I'm getting better at playing the piano.
• The weather is improving.

Action and non-action

We do not normally use some verbs with present continuous because these verbs are not normally action verbs. These verbs include:
believe, belong, depend, hate, know, like, love, mean, need, prefer, realise, suppose, want, understand.

• They know each other very well - Correct
• They are knowing each other very well – Incorrect

ABSTRACT	be, believe,know, need, understand, remember, think,  imagine, forget, mean, exist...
FEELINGS	like, dislike, love, hate, fear, envy, care...
SENSES	hear, see, feel, smell, taste,  sound,  seem
BELONGINGS	own, have, belong, possess

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