Teach English in Boluo Zhen - Qingyuan Shi

The present tense is made up of the present simple present continuous present perfect and the present perfect continuous. They all have their respective forms, usages, teaching ideas and typical mistakes and error made by learners. The forms of these tenses are usually affirmative, negative and interrogative. These three basic forms could be irregular the long form or contracted the short form. Each tense has different usage and purpose. The present simple is used for routine actions permanent situations, or facts, commentaries etc. The present continuous is used to talk about actions that are in progress at the time of speaking, to talk about a temporary action that is not necessarily in progress at the time of speaking, to emphasize very frequent actions etc. The present perfect is used when talking about finished actions /states that happened at an indefinite time when talking about completed past action carried out in an unfinished time period at the time of speaking. When we talk about something which began in the past,and is still true at the time of speaking and we don?t know if this will likely continue or not etc. The present perfect continuous is used to communicate an incomplete and ongoing activity, when we want to say how long it has continuous, to describe a recently finished uninterrupted activity which has present result. Example of the present simple tense, the verb go Affirmative form: I go. You go. She goes. We go. They go. Negative form I do not go. You do not go. She does not go. We do not go. They do not go. Contracted form: I don?t go. You don?t go. She doesn?t go. We don?t go. They don?t go. Interrogative form: Do I go? Do you go? Does she go? Do we go? , Do they go?