Present Tenses
Which is not a present tense form?
1. I've been studying at the BSU for a year.
2. He read a very interesting book.
3. All discoveries have opened the world.
4. I'm going to enter a postgraduate course in 2022.
What is 2?
He read a very interesting book.
Can you name past forms and past participle of the verb 'be'?
Was were been
When 'will' should be used?
1. To speak about plans and arrangements.
2. To predict or promise.
3. To show intentions.
4. To inform about timetables/ programmes
What is 2?
To predict or promise.
1. The Pacific Ocean has been mapped by Abraham Ortelius.
2. The Pacific Ocean will be mapped by Abraham Ortelius.
3. The Pacific Ocean was mapped by Abraham Ortelius.
4. The Pacific Ocean is mapped by Abraham Ortelius.
What is 3?
The Pacific Ocean was mapped by Abraham Ortelius.
Can you translate the sentence?
Не переживай. Лекция начнется в 13.00. Ты не опоздаешь.
What is
"Don't worry. the lecture starts at 1 pm. You won't be late"?
'Since' refers to which tense?
What is
the Present Perfect Continuous?
What tense is used to express
recently completed action with evidence/result in the present?
What is
the Present Perfect?
Choose the correct option.
It's really cold today. I think it
1.will be snowing
2. is going to snow
3. will have been snowing
4. will snow
What is 4?
Will snow
The large areas of the Sahara Desert __________ (sparsely inhabite).
What is
are sparsely inhabited?
What is the difference between the Present Perfect and Past Simple?
Present Perfect: recently completed actions happened at an unstated time in the past and connected with the present
Past Simple: actions happened at a stated time in the past and cannot be repeated.
People _______ (use) maps for thousands of years.
What is
have been using?
Can you list all the markers used with the Past Simple Tense?
Last, yesterday, the day before yesterday, ago, in (2019), date/day ( on the 4th of July, on Monday), when.
Can you give an example of a sentence with the Future Continuous?
Wthat is
"He’ll be writing his coursework this time next week"?
By 1992 the area of the Aral Sea _____ (reduce) to 13.000 mi2.
What is
had been reduced?
Can you create a complex sentence (2 simple sentences) with 'when'?
What is
"I was reading a book when the phone rang"?
Can you list all the markers used with the Present Simple Tense?
Usually, regularly, often, sometimes, seldom, rarely, from time to time, every
What's the difference between past perfect and past continuous?
Past Perfect:: an action happened before another one in the past.
Past continuous: an action was happening at the same time with another one in the past.
John __________ (work) in Edinburgh for two years by the end of this month.
What is
will have been working?
Can you create a sentence with 'just'?
What is
"The question has just been answered"?
A new planet __________ ( discover) by the end of this century.
What is
will have been discovered?
The world’s rainforests _______ (currently disappear) at a rate of 6000 acres every hour.
What is
are currently disappearing?
Can you correct the mistakes?
I hadn't answered the call because I drove.
What is
I didn't answer the call because I was driving?
Can you translate the sentence?
Если ледники Гренландии растаят, уровень моря поднимется приблизительно на 7 метров.
What is
"If Greenland’s ice melts, sea levels will rise by nearly 7 meters"?
Can you translate the sentence?
В настоящее время активно разрабатываются новые методы по очистке загрязненных водоемов.
What is
"At present new methods to clean up polluted water objects are being actively developed"?
Can you translate the sentence?
До того, как Христофор Колумб открыл Америку, люди верили, что Земля плоская.
What is
"Before Christopher Columbus discovered America people had believed that the Earth was flat"?