Verb Tenses

Read the passage and answer these questions Why is there a variety of tenses used in the report? When does/did each action take place?

Lionel Messi scored the 24th hat-trick of his La Liga career as rampant Barcelona went to the top of the table. BBC Football /Barcelona Barca took full advantage of Real Madrid’s defeat by Athletic Bilbao as Luis Suarez also scored twice. Messi scored a twice-taken penalty, tapped in the fourth and added a classy fifth before Suarez wrapped it up after an Alberto Bueno penalty for Rayo. After Pique had scored the second goal, both sides finished with 10 men as Román Triguero collected a second yellow card for pulling down Suarez, conceding the penalty that allowed Messi to make it 3-0. Luis Enrique, Barca’s coach said, "The objective is to be the leader when the season ends. I have always said the big teams will lose throughout the course of the season and it will continue to happen, therefore we have to be very careful."

Verb Tenses present past future Simple (verb) Continuous (is/am/are + V[ing]) Perfect (have/has + past participle) Perfect continuous (have/has been + V[ing]) past Simple (past verb) Continuous (was/were + V[ing]) Perfect (had + past participle) Perfect continuous (had been + V[ing]) future Simple (will + V) Continuous (will be + V[ing]) Perfect (will have + past participle)

Simple Present talk about a fact/ general truth Everybody knows that the Earth goes around the sun. talk about habit/ routine I always eat everyday, but my sister doesn’t. She is strange, isn’t she? talk about something currently happening Miss Tate wants you to go down now.

Present Continuous talk about an action that is happening now Everybody is thinking very hard now. But Peter and Edwin are sleeping on their desks. talk about things firmly planned/ arranged/ scheduled to do in the future Martha, I am leaving for Sydney on Friday night. The ticket is here with me.

Present Perfect talk about things that have been completed I have done my Math work, now it’s time to eat. Time signals: ‘since’, ‘for’ Liz has called you since this morning, but you have not even called her back.

Simple Past talk about completed actions talk about past habit Who says that Britney can’t do things. Last week she woke up, prepared her own breakfast and cleaned her own room. talk about past habit When I was still a student, I always cooked my own food almost everyday.

Past Continuous talk about actions that was happening in the past Actually last week I was doing the English project assigned by Ms Cindy. talk about something on progress when another thing happened Jamal and I were snorkeling when suddenly a big wave came and wiped us off.

Past Perfect talk about actions happened in the past before another happened You need to know that I had done my homework before mom asked me to. Miss Sherry knew that she had told you what to do earlier.

Past Perfect Continuous talk about actions that was on progress when another occured Let me tell you that I had been walking around the building for almost an hour before you called me. Elsa told me that she had been trying to hide her power for a long time when finally she couldn’t hold it again.

Future talk about actions that will happen in the future talk about future plans/ decision made at the moment of speaking I will kick the door open if you don’t open it, Jenn! Do you think just by sitting down will make you graduate?