WAJ3102 English Language Proficiency 1

TOPIC 2

TENSES

This module intends to help course participants to revise and analyse the three main tenses and forms in English. Learning Outcomes To enable CPs to identify tenses used in texts. Use correct and appropriate language structures in different types of writing Assess own language progress through self and peer evaluation

Content Forms Tenses Present Past Future Simple Progressive Perfect

eat/s Ate will/shall eat

am/is/are eating was/were eating will be eating

have/has eaten had eaten will have eaten

1.PRESENT TENSE Present tense expresses a general truth habitual action and tal!s about something existing at the time of spea!ing. Example The Earth is round Every morning # brush my teeth. # hear the train coming. 2. P ST TENSE Past tense expresses an action or situation that begins and completes at a particular time in the past. "ost past tense verbs end in &ed. The irregular verbs have special past tense forms which must be memori'ed. "eaning A fact. The truth $ecurring action / %abitual action %appens at that particular time frame.

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Example The students arrive! in class before the teacher )hiela "ent to the hospital yesterday morning. #. F$T$RE TENSE

(orm $egular &ed past form #rregular form

*(uture tense expresses an action or situation that will occur in the future. This tense is formed by adding will/shall with the basic form of the verb. e.g The Prime "inister of "alaysia "ill spea% at the opening ceremony tomorrow.

Tr& out t'is e(ercise. ) Complete t'e sentences "it' *O+*OES+ IS or RE. Put a ,-. in t'e /lan% "'erever not nee!e! . +. ,ac! ---------- not wor! at his father.s office. /. 0ate -----------sells flowers at a stall. 1. -------- you plan to get a 2ob too3 4. -------- a li'ard a reptile3 5. A mos6uito ----------- flying around )am.s head. 7. 8enise and )cott usually ----------wor! together on small construction 2obs. 9. ---------- mos6uito repellent wor!3 :. Almost all reptiles ---------- lay eggs. ;. <oo! outside=. #t --------- raining. #.m feeling cold. +>. They ------- late for class because of the rain.

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0) I!entif& an! un!erline t'e present tense forms in t'e follo"ing te(t.$se t'e follo"ing to in!icate) SP,simple Present.+ PProg,Present Progressive. an! PP ,Present Perfect .. TE1T 1 ?A@) TA "A0E ?ATE$ TA)TE BETTE$ "any pac!aged drin!s are 6uite expensive. The cheapest drin! out there is water. The main reason that people don.t drin! water is that it is tasteless and not very Cfun. to drin!. An the other hand water is definitely healthier than soda so now there is an entire category of pac!aged drin!s that is basically bottled water with added colouring vitamins and flavour. #nstead of buying these there are many things you can add to water at home to ma!e it more exciting to drin!. +. Add herbs such as mint lemongrass and parsley to the water. #f you want to release the flavour you can crush the plants a little before putting them into your water. /. Adding vinegar to water is similar to adding citrus. @ou will get wour water that has vitamin C. ?hen # was a !id. # li!e adding apple cider vinegar to the water before drin!ing it.. 1. #.m sure you.ve heard of the term DelectrolytesE in the mar!eting for energy drin!s. Electrolytes are little more than 2ust ions that can be found in common table salt. Adding a little bit of salt to water helps your body absorb the li6uid more 6uic!ly. As long as you don.t go overboard with the salt the water should be very 6uenching. #t is great for wor!outs since the body loses salt through water.
Readers Digest Nov 2010

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0) I!entif& an! un!erline t'e present tense forms in t'e follo"ing te(t.$se t'e follo"ing to in!icate) SP,simple Past.+ PProg,Past Progressive. an! PP ,Past Perfect ..

TE1T 2 They had eaten the barbecued lamb the grilled stea!s and the green lettuce. Through crispy aromatic smo!e which spread thinly across the flood*lit lawn they had pic!ed at the satay with their teeth and sipped glasses of wine and beer. <oud laughter fre6uently burst forth from a few tables followed by momentsof unnatural 6uiet. The tal! at one table was about a bomb explosion outside the house of ?an Furudin )ecretary* General to %ousing "inister a few days previously. %is gate was blasted open and a security guard !illed. That.s why the dinner was being held at Panglima.s house and ?an Furudin though present was in the bac!ground. The lady who provided the details Esther fu had pluc!ed eyebrows which had been painted over in two semi* circular blac! lines. That.s what she had heard. )he explained that there had been a top level meetingH a new policy towards the disorder in the town had been drafted. D@ou.ll see D she said. D?e.ll soon be able to wal! safely in the streets.E
Green is the colour F. Lloyd.

8o visit the following websites for further exercises to try out or as references .
httpI//www.bbc.co.u! httpI//www.englishexercise.com httpI//www.nonstopenglish.com

References
Jin <u.K/>+>L November.ways to ma e water taste better. $eaders 8igest. <loyd (ernando Green is the Colour rdasia.com Betty )chrampfer A'ar 8onald A A'ar K+;;;L Fundamentals o! "nglish grammar. /nd edI <ongman.

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