Present Simple - Present Continuous Past Simple - Past Continuous

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Present Simple - Present Continuous 

Past Simple - Past Continuous

Lesson goal

by the end of this lesson you understand present simple, present continuous, past simple and past continuous and use it in senteces. 

I cleaned my teeth three times yesterday.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

I work in a shop.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

Rachel was watching TV.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

Lucy lives in London.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

I don't play the piano very well.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

He is waiting for the bus.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

What is your sister doing?

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

Last Tuesday Lisa flew from London to Madrid.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

Maria speaks four languages.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

At 8.15 she was washing her car.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

They are playing football.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

Yesterday James went to work by car.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

The shops in the city centre usually open at 9 o'clock in the morning.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

Where were you living in 1999?

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

I meet a lot of people.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

Are they having fun?

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

He wasn't wearing a jacket.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

Rachel lost her keys last week.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

They live in a very big house.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

Listen! Someone is singing!

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

Yesterday I bought two newspapers.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

Do you like chocolate?

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

Tracey was waiting for the train.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

I didn't see Jane last week.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

Kate met her friends yesterday evening.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

Peter never cleans his car.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

Was it raining when you got up?

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

She is eating an apple.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

I read a book.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

Make a sentences using present simple

Make a sentences using present continuous

Make a sentence using past simple

Make a sentence using past continuous

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

PAST CONTINUOUS

Is singing

Mady is driving the car at this moment.

You were dancing in the club last weekend.

We were going to visit her last week.

I am playing

was/were

They are happy

He is smilling now

was playing Tennis

Neil was travelling yesterday.

The children (play)
____________
in the park when it started to rain.

(we / study French)
use present continuos

Haruka (work)
___________
today.

I was watching a movie when I (notice)
______________
him standing outside.

We (eat)
_____________
dinner at 8pm last night
(we started eating at 7:30).

Last year I (visit)
________
Paris and Rome.

Julie (be)
__________
in the garden when Laurence (arrive).
__________

I (walk)
_______
along the road when I (meet)
_______
an old friend.

I (enjoy)
________
my book so much that I (not/notice)
_________
that the train had stopped.

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