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English - Tku9102: Lecturer: Meta Fitri Rizkiana, S.T., M.Sc. 2 Sks

The document reviews English tenses, including: 1) Present tenses like present continuous and present simple are used to describe ongoing or habitual actions. 2) Past tenses like past simple and past continuous describe completed or ongoing past actions. 3) Present perfect and present perfect continuous tenses indicate a connection between past and present. 4) Future tenses like will, be going to, future continuous and future perfect are used to talk about events and activities that have not occurred yet.

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English - Tku9102: Lecturer: Meta Fitri Rizkiana, S.T., M.Sc. 2 Sks

The document reviews English tenses, including: 1) Present tenses like present continuous and present simple are used to describe ongoing or habitual actions. 2) Past tenses like past simple and past continuous describe completed or ongoing past actions. 3) Present perfect and present perfect continuous tenses indicate a connection between past and present. 4) Future tenses like will, be going to, future continuous and future perfect are used to talk about events and activities that have not occurred yet.

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ENGLISH – TKU9102

Lecturer : Meta Fitri Rizkiana, S.T., M.Sc.


2 SKS
Review Tenses
• Tenses : form taken by a verb to show the
time of an action or the state of an event.
o Present
o Past Past Present Future
o Future
• Each of the three tenses has four forms or
subdivisions, which are :
o Simple
o Continuous
o Perfect
o Perfect Continuous
Present Continuous and
Present Simple
Present Continuous
• Talk about particular events or activities that have begun
but have not ended at the time of speaking
• The event or activity is in progress at the present time, the
action is not completed
• Temporary Situation

Present Simple
• Talk about things in general
• Talk about habits or regular events or actions, to say that
something happens all the time or repeatedly
• Permanent Situation
Present Continuous and
Present Simple
• I always do (something) = I do it every
time
• I’m always doing (something), has a
different meaning
o I’m always losing things = I lose things very
often, perhaps too often, or more often
than normal.
o A : Look! You’ve made the same mistake
again.
B : Oh no, not again! I’m always making
the same mistake
Present Continuous and
Present Simple
• Some verbs marked * are rarely used in
continuous form,
Past Simple and Past
Continuous
Past Simple
• Refer to completed action or event in the past or to talk
about situations that existed over a period of time in the
past
• Talk about repeated past actions
• Using time adverbial (yesterday, two days ago, etc)

Past Continuous
• Talk about a situation that started before a particular point
in the past and was still progress at that point in the past
Present Perfect and Present
Perfect Continuous
Present Perfect Simple
• Talk about a past action, event, or state, when there is some
kind of connection between what happened in the past, and
the present time or relevant to the situation that exists now
• Talk about a period that continues from the past until now
• Talk about action that happened recently with a
consequence for the present
• Just, already, yet

Present Perfect Continuous


• Talk about an activity in progress in the past for a period
until now, which is still in progress or has recently finished.
Difference between Present Perfect
Continuous and Present Continuous
Present Perfect and Present
Perfect Continuous
Present Perfect and Present
Perfect Continuous
Present Perfect and Past
Simple
• Present Perfect for new or recent
happenings. Present perfect is a
present tense, it always tells us about
the situation now.
• Past simple tells us only about the past.
Past Simple for things that are not
recent or new.
Past Perfect and Past
Perfect Continuous
Past Perfect
• Talk about a past event that took place before another past
event, or before or up to a particular time in the past.

Past Perfect Continuous


• Talk about a situation or activity that was in progress over a
period up to a particular past point in time.
Future
• Will + infinitive
State a decision made at the moment of speaking, or
say that we think something is likely to happen in the
future
• Be going to + infinitive
State a decision made some time before we report it,
informal spoken English
• Future continuous
Talk about and activity or event happening at a
particular time or over a particular period in the future.
• Future perfect
To say that something will already be complete before a
time in the future
I will
I’m going to

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