Quickies 3Tenses

Present, Past and Future

have 4 forms

Present

• I play• I am playing• I have played• I have been playing

Past

• I played• I was playing• I had played• I had been playing

Future

• I will play• I will be playing• I will have played• I will have been playing

Present, Past and Future4 forms

2 are simple

2 are continuous

2 are perfect

Present, Past and Future4 forms

2 are simple

2 are continuous

2 are perfect

2 2+ 2

4

• Renard the fox is tired. He has been looking for food all day. He has searched for rabbits without any success.

• Suddenly he sees a lorry.The men in the lorry have been fishing. They are quite happy, at least, they are feeling very satisfied. They have brought a boxful of fish with them.

Stories can be told in the Present

but normally they are told in the Past.

• Renard the fox was tired. He had been looking for food all day. He had searched for rabbits without any success.

• Suddenly he saw a lorry.The men in the lorry had been fishing. They were quite happy, at least, they were feeling very satisfied. They had brought a boxful of fish with them.

Start in Present..• Renard the fox is tired. He has been looking

for food all day. He has searched for rabbits without any success.

Yesterday, he was luckier. He had been on the road for half an hour when suddenly he saw a lorry. The men in the lorry had been fishing. They were quite happy, at least, they were feeling very satisfied. They had brought a boxful of fish with them.

Renard the fox was tired. He had been looking for food all day. He had searched for rabbits without any success.

Suddenly he saw a lorry.The men in the lorry had been fishing. They were quite happy, at least, they were feeling very satisfied. They had brought a boxful of fish with them…

...

Now, Renard has plenty of food for him and his children.

Make your story in Past and

Don’t mix Use paragraphs!

Let’s repeat!

Present, Past and Future4 forms

2 are simple

2 are continuous

2 are perfect

Present

• I play• I am playing• I have played• I have been playing

Past

• I played• I was playing• I had played• I had been playing

Future

• I will play• I will be playing• I will have played• I will have been playing

Stories can be told in the Present

but normally they are told in the Past.

• Renard the fox was tired. He had been looking for food all day. He had searched for rabbits without any success.

• Suddenly he saw a lorry.The men in the lorry had been fishing. They were quite happy, at least, they were feeling very satisfied. They had brought a boxful of fish with them.

You can use Present in the very beginning or in the very end of

your story but you must

use paragraphs!

Do you know it all???

• Now write your own: