All the tenses

• Engels
• Voortgezet speciaal onderwijs
• Leerroute 3

Grammar Tenses

Goal

At the end of this lesson, you have revisited all the tenses you have to know and you know now what you find difficult and what not.

There is paint on Kate’s clothes, because she…(paint) her bedroom.

I think the waiter (just, forget)… us. We (wait)…here for over half an hour and nobody (take)… our order yet.

… (YOU, NOT MEET) Mr Temple yesterday? - Why … (YOU THINK) I … (MEET) him? - I … (SEE) him last Friday, but I … (NOT SEE) him since then.

George and Joan …( live) in a small house in London. Right now they … ( stand) in the sitting room of their house. They…( just come) back from a holiday in the country . They…( arrive) at the house five minutes ago.

What... (HELEN, DO) for the last two hours? - She ... (PREPARE) for next week’s meeting; she ...(DUST) the furniture now.

This mountain …(be, never) climbed by anyone. Several mountaineers…(try) to reach the top since, but nobody… (succeed, ever) has ever succeeded. The climb is extremely difficult and many people…(die, already)trying to reach the summit.

Murder mystery

You will be in groups of four or three.

Read the text.

Answer the question of how many times a particular tense is used.

Highlight the clues that indicate that particular time.