1. Continuous.
1.1. Present Continuous.
1.1.1. Drop the –e and add –ing.
1.1.2. -Y simply add –ing.
1.1.3. -He was trying to change their mind. -We weren’t trying to break it. -Was he telling the truth?
1.2. Past Continuous.
1.2.1. Communicate permanent statuses or actions.
1.2.2. -I am listening to music. -She was not eating. -Are you in the party?
2. Perfect.
2.1. Present perfect.
2.1.1. Unspecified point in the past.
2.1.2. Occurred in the past, but has a result in the present
2.1.3. Events that recently occurred
2.1.4. Examples: -He has eaten my chocolate. -It hasn't been cold this month. -Have you kept my secret?
2.2. Past perfect.
2.2.1. To signal that one event occurred before another in the past.
2.2.2. -Had.
2.2.3. -Just.
2.2.4. Examples: -I had written articles on various topics before he came. -He had traveled around the world before he came to Bangladesh. -They had played hockey in that field before it started to rain.
3. Future.
3.1. Future will.
3.1.1. Used at the end of the sentence or question.
3.1.2. Describe a simple action in the future
3.1.3. Examples: -I will meet him later. -You will come. -It will rain tomorrow (it'll)
3.2. Be going to.
3.2.1. Used in the past tense.
3.2.2. -Going to. -Gonna.
3.2.3. Examples: -I was going to call you but I lost your phone number. -It was going to rain but suddenly the sun appeared. -We were going to buy a new TV but then we changed our minds.
4. To Be.
4.1. Present to be
4.1.1. Use: ser - estar.
4.1.2. Auxiliaries: am - is - are
4.1.3. Rules: don't use verbs.
4.1.4. Examples Affirmative, Negative, Questions.
4.1.5. -I am from New Zealand. -He is not thirty years old. -Are you a student?
5. Simple.
5.1. Present simple.
5.1.1. Describe action in regular, true or normal.
5.1.2. In the third person we add 'S' in the third person.
5.1.3. Don't or Doesn't
5.1.4. Do or Does.
5.1.5. Examples: -This bus leaves at night. -You don't speak French. -Do you need a dictionary?
5.2. Past simple.
5.2.1. About things that happened or existed before now.
5.2.2. -Ed. -d
5.2.3. -Didn't. -did not.
5.2.4. -Was. -Were.