Simple & Continuous Tenses
This tense is used for routines and habits, such as “She ___ (go) to the gym every day.”
What is the simple present?
Verbs like run, jump, and write describe actions you can see or do. What kind of verbs are they?
What are dynamic verbs?
This conditional describes facts or things that are always true, like “If you heat water, it boils.”
What is the Zero Conditional?
Complete the sentence: “I’ll call you ___ I arrive.”
What is ‘when’?
Complete the sentence: “It’s ___ hot to go outside.”
What is ‘too’?
“They were studying when the power went out.”
The first verb is in this tense.
What is the past continuous?
This type of verb, such as know, love, or believe, describes a state or condition rather than an action.
What are stative verbs?
Complete the sentence: “If it rains tomorrow, we ___ (stay) inside.”
What is ‘will stay’? (First Conditional)
This word introduces a clause that shows something will happen before another event finishes: “I’ll wait here ___ you’re ready.”
What is ‘until’?
True or False: We use enough before adjectives and adverbs, like in “She isn’t tall enough to play basketball.”
What is ‘too’?
This tense describes actions happening right now, for example: “He ___ (watch) TV at the moment.”
What is the present continuous?
“I’m knowing the answer” sounds strange because this verb type is usually not used in the continuous tense.
What are stative verbs?
In the Zero Conditional, both clauses use this verb tense.
What is the present simple?
Identify the correct connector: “We’ll start dinner ___ Dad gets home.”
Response: What is ‘when’?
Fix the sentence: “He is enough strong to lift the box.”
What is ‘He is strong enough to lift the box.’
For completed actions at a specific time in the past, like “I ___ (finish) my homework yesterday,” you use this tense.
What is the simple past?
Verbs like have can be both stative and dynamic. In “I have a car,” it is stative. In “I’m having lunch,” it is this kind of verb.
What is a dynamic verb?
This conditional talks about real and possible situations in the future, like “If I see him, I’ll tell him.”
What is the First Conditional?
Choose the right connector: “___ the movie finishes, we’ll go for ice cream.”
What is ‘when’?
Choose the correct word: “I didn’t have ___ money to buy the ticket.”
What is ‘enough’?
For completed actions at a specific time in the past, like “I ___ (finish) my homework yesterday,” you use this tense.
What is the simple past?
Identify the verb type in this sentence: “She remembers her first day at school vividly.”
What is a stative verb?
Correct the error: “If you will study, you will pass the test.” Only one ‘will’ is needed because in the ‘if’ clause we use this tense.
What is the present simple?
True or False: In time clauses with after, until, and when referring to the future, the verb in the clause is in the present simple tense, not future.
Response: What is True?
Explain the difference: “too expensive” vs. “expensive enough.” Which one means it’s more than necessary?
What is ‘too expensive’?