Past Present Future

Simple Present: Use to talk about things

you usually do (habits) and facts.
Simple Past: Use to talk about something that
happened in a specific moment in the past.

Simple future: Use to talk about something that
is still going to happen.
Will: Promises, instant decisions, offers and
predictions not based on facts.
Going to: Plans and predictions based on
something.
Future Continuous: Using the present
progressive to talk about something in the
future saying when its going to happen.
Past Continuous: Use to talk about an action
in progressive in the past.
Present Continuous: Use to talk about an
action in progressive now.
Future Continuous: Use to talk about an action
in progressive in the future, usually saying
when it is going to happen.
Present Perfect: Use to talk about
things that happened but not
saying when, and unfinished
actions with non-Continuous Verbs.
Past Perfect: Use when you are
talking about the past and want to
talk about an earlier event.
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Present Perfect Continuous: Use to
talk about things that have started
in the past and continue in the
present.
Common Tenses


Past
Present
Future
Simple Past: I went to Canada last year. It was great.
Past Continuous: I was studying last morning.
Past Perfect: When I got home, my mother had cooked dinner.
Simple Present: I go to the beach every week.
Present Continuous: Quiet! I am studying for a test now.
Present Perfect: I have watched that movie twice.
Present Perfect Continuous:
I have been playing soccer since 2012.
Future Will: Brazil will win the next World Cup.
Future Going to: Im going to travel to Cuba next year.
Future continuous:
Im having dinner with my mother tomorrow night.