3rd week
Monday
2p.m 17th December 2012

RECAP: I don't Remember Anything About Tenses

This evening was rainy before i walk out from my college. I made an option either to go class quickly or just wait the rain is stop. I had no choice but run over it to the class at Dewan Peria before 2 o'clock,and i was lucky i could arrived at Dewan Peria on time. Unfortunately, when i arrived all of my friend who arrived earlier had to waited couple of minutes because the hall was used by degree students who organized party. I don't know what the party was. Several minutes after that, we entered the hall and started the class as usual. I saw Miss Zu today was very tired.

Miss Zu reminded us about the assignment that she gave to us. So we gave to her our assignment. Unfortunately, our assignment rejected because we did it wrong. She asked us to redo it again. We respected her order and we obey it. She gave us 24hours to redo it. Then, our class continued. Miss Zu brought our focus to grammar especially basic past tense, present tense, and future tense. Oh my english, i forgot everything about tense.
I tried hard to answer every her question eventhough i always wrong.

Here what we learnt this evening. Check this out YO...

Past Tenses. Past Perfect, Past Simple and ContinuousPresentation Transcript

1. Past Tenses Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect Simple
2. Past Tenses: Structures Past Simple : Subject + Verb -ed (or irregular form) Negative: Subject + did not/ didn’t Verb(basic form) Interrogative: Did + Subject + Verb (basic form) Past Continuous: Subject + was/were + Verb -ing Negative: Subject + was/were + not ( wasn’t/weren’t ) +Verb -ing Interrogative: Was/Were + Subject + Verb -ing ? Past Perfect Simple : Subject + had + Verb -ed (or irregular form) Negative: Subject + had + not ( hadn’t )+ Verb -ed (or irregular form) Interrogative: Had + Subject + Verb -ed (or irregular form)
3. Past Simple. Spelling rules for regular verbs If the verb ends in “silent –e”  It disappears “ I lived in Italy” (live + ed  lived) If the verb ends in “consonant + y”  -ied “ They carried the boxes home” (carry + ed  carried) Duplication of the final consonant of a verb: Conditions: The verb ends in one only consonant (except X or W) The last syllable is stressed The vowel of the last syllable is “ short ” Example: “They dropped the ball”/”They kidnapped my sister” Exception: when the verb ends in “l” it doubles though the last syllable is not stressed. (example: “travelled”)
4. Simple Past. Uses To talk about finished actions in the past: One action after the other: “ She opened the door, turned on the lights and entered the house” An action that happened in a certain situation. “ The car knocked the child down when he was crossing the road” A short action finished in the past (you indicate when it happened with an adverb of Time): “ Yesterday, I arrived at home too late”. A finished actions that takes a long period of time (indicated in de sentese ): “ I lived in Britain when I was young”
5. Past Continuous. Uses To talk about an action in progress in the past: “ At midday last Sunday, I was working with my laptop” To express the situation in which action happened in the past: “ The little kid was crossing the road when a car knocked him down” To talk about the context in which the events of a story happened: “ It was getting dark, the sun was beginning to hide behind the hills, women were tidying up the entrance of the church. Suddenly, a strange red light appeared in the sky” To talk about two actions that were taking place simultaneously in the past: “ My wife was talking on the phone while I was surfing the web”
6. Past Perfect Simple. Uses. To express a finished action that took place before another completed action in the past. “ My family had already arrived before I left”. “ After we had finished dinner, we got ready to go out.” “ When the police arrived, the murderer had killed everyone”. “ By the time we met, I had eaten all the packets of salt & vinegar crisps” Future Past Continuous Past Simple Past Perfect Present

Present Simple Tense

I sing

How do we make the Present Simple Tense?

subject	+	auxiliary verb	+	main verb
		do		base

There are three important exceptions:

For positive sentences, we do not normally use the auxiliary.
For the 3rd person singular (he, she, it), we add s to the main verb or es to the auxiliary.
For the verb to be, we do not use an auxiliary, even for questions and negatives.

Look at these examples with the main verb like:

	subject	auxiliary verb		main verb
+	I, you, we, they			like	coffee.
+	He, she, it			likes	coffee.
-	I, you, we, they	do	not	like	coffee.
-	He, she, it	does	not	like	coffee.
?	Do	I, you, we, they		like	coffee?
?	Does	he, she, it		like	coffee?

Look at these examples with the main verb be. Notice that there is no auxiliary:

	subject	main verb
+	I	am		French.
	You, we, they	are		French.
	He, she, it	is		French.
-	I	am	not	old.
	You, we, they	are	not	old.
	He, she, it	is	not	old.
?	Am	I		late?
	Are	you, we, they		late?
	Is	he, she, it		late?

How do we use the Present Simple Tense?

We use the present simple tense when:

the action is general
the action happens all the time, or habitually, in the past, present and future
the action is not only happening now
the statement is always true

John drives a taxi.
past	present	future

It is John's job to drive a taxi. He does it every day. Past, present and future.

Look at these examples:

I live in New York.
The Moon goes round the Earth.
John drives a taxi.
He does not drive a bus.
We meet every Thursday.
We do not work at night.
Do you play football?

Note that with the verb to be, we can also use the present simple tense for situations that are not general. We can use the present simple tense to talk about now. Look at these examples of the verb "to be" in the present simple tense - some of them are general, some of them are now:

Am I right? Tara is not at home. You are happy.
past	present	future

The situation is now.

I am not fat. Why are you so beautiful? Ram is tall.
past	present	future

The situation is general. Past, present and future.

Future Tense

The future tense is used to tell what "will" happen, or what "shall" happen.

I will go to the beach next month.
I shall write the letter next week.

How do we use the Future Simple Tense?

No Plan

We use the future simple tense when there is no plan or decision to do something before we speak. We make the decision spontaneously at the time of speaking. Look at these examples:

Hold on. I'll get a pen.
We will see what we can do to help you.
Maybe we'll stay in and watch television tonight.

In these examples, we had no firm plan before speaking. The decision is made at the time of speaking.

We often use the future simple tense with the verb to think before it:

I think I'll go to the gym tomorrow.
I think I will have a holiday next year.
I don't think I'll buy that car.

Prediction

We often use the future simple tense to make a prediction about the future. Again, there is no firm plan. We are saying what we think will happen. Here are some examples:

It will rain tomorrow.
People won't go to Jupiter before the 22nd century.
Who do you think will get the job?

Be

When the main verb is be, we can use the future simple tense even if we have a firm plan or decision before speaking. Examples:

I'll be in London tomorrow.
I'm going shopping. I won't be very long.
Will you be at work tomorrow?

That's all.. Today class was quite stress to recap what we learnt this before. However, we could remember all of them at the end of the class.

Journal of my B.E.L 311's class

Monday 17 December 2012