The Present and Past Flashcards
What are simple present and the present progressive describing?
- they are describing the present time
What is the simple present describing? (more detail)
- it describes things that are more permanent, such as general facts or habits ; routines, scheduled events and timetables
- summarizing, reviewing, explaining procedures or giving instructions
What is the present progressive describing?
-the present progressive describes things that are temporary, such as things in progress now or around now; or changing events
What kind of time expressions are important for simple present?
-always, usually, often, sometimes, never, on Mondays, once a week, two days a week, and twice a month
What are typical adverbs in writing?
-typically, frequently and traditionally
Which adverbs are common in both speaking and writing?
-generally, usually and normally
What are stative verbs? Give some common stative verbs?
Description, Measurement, knowledge, emotions, possession, senses and perception
- stative verbs describe states and conditions (generally no actions)
- Description: appear, be, exist, look, seem, sound
- measurement: cost, weigh
- knowledge: believe, think, forget, know, remember
- emotions: feel, hate, like, love, prefer
- possession/relationship: belong, contain, have, need, own, want
- senses: hear, see, smell, taste
- Perception: notice, see, understand
Which verbs are also stative and action?
-include, be, have, see, taste, think, and weigh
What are the simple past and past progressive describing?
-they are describing actions in the past
When do students use simple past?
- to describe actions, situations, or events that are completed
- actions that happened once or repeatedly
Which time markers are used with simple past?
-yesterday, last week, two months ago, and in 2011
When do students use the past progressive?
- to describe an activity or event in progress over a period of time in the past
- to describe background activities
When is would used?
-only for actions not states
What are used to and would describing?
-past routines or repeated actions
What is used to describing?
-states or habits that existed in the past but do not exist now
