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This is a brief introduction to the topics you are going to work with in the first lesson. It is about the present tenses. As you will see, there are four basic present tenses in English. Read carefully and answer the questions at the end.

The information was taken from:  http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/present-tense  In that website you can see additional information about this subject.

“There are two tenses in English – past and present.

The present tenses in English are used:

• to talk about the present
• to talk about the future
• to talk about the past when we are telling a story in spoken English or when we are summarising a book, film, play etc.

There are four present tense forms in English:

We use these forms:

• to talk about the present:
  He works at McDonald’s. He has worked there for three months now.
  He is working at McDonald’s. He has been working there for three months now.
  London is the capital of Britain.
• to talk about the future:
  The next train leaves this evening at 1700 hours.
  I’ll phone you when I get 
  He’s meetingPeter in town this afternoon.
  I’ll come home as soon as I have finished work.
  You will be tired out after you have been working all night.
• We can use the present tenses to talk about the past..

As you can see, there are only two tenses in English language: present and past. To talk about the future, you use modal verbs and verbs in present tense. We will learn more about this in future Univia English lessons.