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Hi, everybody.

My name is Alicia.

In this lesson, I'm going to give an introduction to English tenses for this lesson.

I'm going to give a short introduction to when to use each of the English tenses.

I'm also going to share an example of what that tense looks like in a sentence or in a question.

So this is just a quick guide.

If you wan TME or information about any of these tenses, you can try searching the YouTube channel or our website for a video specifically about one of the's tenses.

So I hope this is helpful for you.

Okay, so let's get started.

The first group of 10 says I want to look at is the present tense.

So for today's lesson, I've organized it into three categories present past and future tenses.

So let's begin with the present tense.

So in each category I have four different tenses.

I have simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous, you might know continuous as progressive if they mean the same thing, continuous and progressive mean the same thing for this lesson.

So let's begin with the present simple tents.

President.

Simple tents is a tense we use for general facts for regular actions and for schedules.

So this is stuff that doesn't change.

Like he speaks English.

For example, she doesn't speak Spanish.

That's a simple fact for a regular action.

So things you do every day or every week, for example, and schedule.

So that means like a bus or an airplane or maybe a car schedule something that maintains a regular schedule.

An example.

Two examples of using the present simple tents.

First, I work on Mondays.

So here work is my verb.

I work on Mondays.

Simple, present, tense, A negative.

I don't eat lunch at two o'clock.

So these are simple, present tense statements.

In this case, they're just simple statements of fact.

Really?

Okay, so let's continue to the next one.

The second tense is the present continuous tents of the present continuous tins.

Eso president continuous tense we use for continuing actions and that means actions that are happening now.

So, for example, I am teaching.

I'm standing.

I'm speaking those air actions happening now, so we use it for continuing actions now, like physical actions, we also use it for trends.

So things happening in your society right now, for example, so examples would be like that TV show is becoming popular or the world is getting warmer, for example, So these air things happening now also, we can use it for one time actions as well.

Um, and this relates a little bit to future tense, which I'm going to talk about later, too.

But something happening just one time in the future, we can use the continuous form to describe that.

So, for example, I'm working this Saturday.

So sometimes students ask What's the difference?

Why is it I'm working this Saturday and not I work this Saturday.

Remember, we talked about the present simple tents.

We use that for regular actions for general facts.

So if you usually work on Saturdays, you should use the present simple tents I work on Saturdays.

If, however, this Saturday is special and you don't usually work on Saturdays, you should use the continuous tense.

I'm working this Saturday, so it sounds like that's not a typical thing for you.

I'm working this Saturday.

Okay, let's go on to the third tense.

The third tense is the present perfect tense, the present perfect tense.

So we use the present perfect tense for general life experience or lack thereof.

So lack thereof means no, no life experience, not having a life experience.

So something that you did in the past, but not at a specific point in time.

The specific point in time is not so important here.

Or maybe we don't know so example a negative example.

He has never been to Spain.

He has never been to Spain.

In this case, no life experience of going to Spain is what this means.

So this is an example of present perfect tense.

Here we have, he has remember we need to attach, has or have before our past participle verb form here.

So for more information about this tense, you can check the channel.

There's more information there, So let's continue on to the next tense Now.

The next tense is the present perfect, continuous, tense present.

Perfect.

Continuous.

We use this tense for actions that started in the past and continue to the present.

So something you started doing in the past some point in the past.

It's not always important when, but that action continues.

So you use this a lot to talk about.

Your study is, for example, we use words like four and since and maybe a go with this as well.

So an example of this.

I've been studying English for two years.

So here we see.

I've been this I've is the contracted the reduced form of I have I have been studying.

So this is the continuous or the progressive form.

In this case, I've used the word for I've used for because I'm using two years, which is a length of time we can use since, for example, I've been studying English since 2016.

So we use since before a specific point in time, we can use a go as well.

Usually we pair it with.

Since I've been studying English since two years ago, you'll notice when we use ago.

However, we change from using in my first example 2016 to a length of time since two years ago.

So there are a few different changes you need to make there.

You can check the other video on the channel for more information about that grammar point.

Okay, let's move on to the second group for today, which is the past tense.

Let's look at the four points in the past tense here.

1st 1 is the past.

Simple or just simple.

Past tense.

Simple past tense is used for actions that started and finished in the past.

So, for example, I taught simple, present tense earlier, So I used the past tense.

I talked simple, present tense because the action started and finished in the past.

Another example.

I worked all night.

I worked all night, so work is my verb.

I used simple past tense worked because the action started and finished in the past.

Another example.

A negative.

They didn't come.

They didn't come to the party.

They didn't come to the office.

The action was in the past.

It refers to something that did not happen in the past, so there was no action in the past.

But it's over.

It's finished.

So we use simple past tense to talk about these simple actions that started and finished in the past.

Okay, let's go on to the past.

Continuous tense them past continuous is for actions that were continuing in the past, So this one is when we often use with a specific point in time along with it.

So let's look at an example first.

We were listening to music.

We were listening to music yesterday or we were listening to music at 8 p.m. When were you listening to music?

When was that action continuing at eight PM or yesterday?

So it's common to include a point in time with this grammar point.

Another example, like I was doing something, something I n g form.

They're So this is one that's some people have questions about, like Why should I use that?

When should I use that?

It's typically used in response to someone's question like, What were you doing last night, for example, or what were you doing this morning?

So you want to know someone's activities at a specific point in time?

You can use this grammar point to respond to that question.

Okay, let's move along to the past perfect tense.

Our next one past perfect tense is for actions that were completed or not completed at a non specific point in the past and a non specific point in the past.

So this one is kind of difficult, and it's perhaps not used quite so much in everyday conversation.

This is used a bit more in writing.

This is a grammar point that's especially helpful when we want to show kind of a timeline in our writing to show that in action happened before another action in the past.

We can use the past perfect tense.

So here's a couple of examples.

Uh, 1st 1 they hadn't departed yet, so here hadn't is the reduced form of had not they hadn't departed yet, and I had taken my lunch break so we would use sentences like the's if we're telling a story.

So we're telling a story about the past, and we want to show that one action happened before another action when we want to talk about the earlier action.

So the thing that happened earlier, like MME.

Or in the past we used the past perfect tense.

Then we can use the simple past tense to explain the action that happened closer to the present.

So, for example, I had taken my lunch break when I saw the delivery man came or something like that, so you can see my second point there.

That's kind of a strange example.

But, uh, you see that my second point there uses simple past tense.

I saw the delivery man came, so I had taken my lunch break further in the past when I saw the delivery man came.

So that's simple past it.

So this is probably more common in writing, but it is used in speaking as well, too.

So this is what we use the past perfect tense to do.

Okay, let's move on, then, to another challenging point.

Ah, past perfect, continuous, tense past perfect, continuous thes thes air sentences or questions for actions that started in the past and continued to like an unspecified point in the past.

So the action has finished as well.

That's a key difference, with the present perfect continuous with President perfect continuous.

The action is happening now.

Still, that behavior still continues.

Key point, though with past perfect continuous, is that the action started at some point in the past and then continued and finished as well, but at some unspecified point.

So maybe we don't know exactly when the action finished, but it's done.

It's complete.

So let's look at an example they had been waiting since 3 p.m. So here they had been waiting.

This shows us that there was some waiting period.

So the waiting started at 3 p.m. And the waiting continued and continued and continued.

We don't know when the waiting finished, but this grammar point shows us that the waiting has finished.

We're finished waiting.

That's done.

We wanted to talk only about this period of time.

The people were waiting in the past.

So this is the grammar point that we used to talk about things that were happening, uh, over a period of time in the past and then finished.

So this is something again we use when telling stories were showing a sequence of events actually.

Okay, Lets move along then to the last group for today's lesson.

The future tense, future tense.

Let's start with the future.

Simple, tense future, Simple tents.

This is for actions that are planned or unplanned for the future.

There are actually a lot of different things we can do to make the future simple tents some very common ways of making future simple are through using will and won't and going to and not going to And earlier in this lesson I mentioned using the continuous tense, the present continuous tense, the i N g form of a verb to make statements about the future also.

So there are many ways to make a simple future statements.

Let's look at a couple of examples.

First, I'll have a glass of wine.

This uses will I'll.

I'll is the reduced form of I will have a glass of wine.

That's a future statement.

Also, he's going to cook dinner in this one.

I've used going to to express that.

So these are just simple things about planned or perhaps unplanned, like he's not going to cook.

Dinner would be an unplanned action in the future or something that's not going to happen in the future.

Okay, so let's go on to the future.

Continuous tense now, future continuous tense.

This is for actions.

You think, uh, will or will not be continuing in the future in the future, something you think will be continuously happening in the future.

Let's look at an example.

I'm not going to be working at company, eh?

I'm not going to be working at Company A.

So here you can see we have going to I'm not going to.

Plus, we have a verb in the continuous tense.

I'm not going to be working at company A meaning.

In other words, I'm not going to have a job at Company A or I'm not going to continue my position.

Company A in the future.

That's my thought now, in the present about the future.

So at that time in the future, like in one year, for example, I will not be working at that company, or I'm not going to be working at Company A.

So that's the idea behind other future.

Continue Weston's.

Okay, let's move along to the future.

Perfect tense than so eso Future perfect tense refers to actions that you think will have started some point in the future.

So remember, you're thinking in the present right now, but this grammar point is used to talk about something, something you imagine in the future that starts at some point and you think might, uh, be continuing into the future.