Present / Past Tenses

Front 1

Present simple

Back 1

We use for regular activity: I check my email every day;

Or with permanent situation: Yuki works at the bank.

With questions use do: Do you work here?

Front 2

Present continuous

Back 2

We use for things that are happening: I am checking, she is working, I am studying.

We can also use for future arrangements: I am leaving tomorrow.

Front 3

Form of the present continuous

Back 3

Positive sentences:

Subject + to be + verb-ing

Ex.: we + are + wearing ...

Negative and questions:

Subject + To be + (not +) verb-ing

Ex.: Is + it + not + raining

Front 4

Verbs we don't use in the present continuous

Back 4

Verbs of thinking and feeling: hear, smell, hate, know, understand, want, need...

Front 5

Ever

Back 5

Usado no present perfect em perguntas levantando a possibilidade de que algo tenha acontecido na vida de alguém.

Always use in the question.

Exs.: Have you ever been to the US?

Have you ever had a dog?

Front 6

Never

Back 6

Nunca.

To use in negative answers.

Exs.: I have never travelled to Paris.

I have never had a dog.

I have never been to Japan.

Front 7

Already

Back 7

In questions:

Have you already traveled to Paris?

In affirmative answers.

Ex.: I have already traveled to Paris.

Front 8

Present perfect

Back 8

Subject + have / has + past participle

I + have + finished

Use in recent past actions

Ex.: The president has resigned.

Past situations that are still happening now.

Ex.: Jack is been in Italy since January.

Front 9

How long - for (present perfect)

Back 9

How long have you known Marcos?

I have known him for two years.

Há quanto tempo você conhece o Marcos?

Eu o conheço há 2 anos.

Always use "for" in a question that starts with "how long"

Front 10

Questions in the present perfect

Back 10

Have / has + subject + past participle

Have + you + done...

Front 11

Past simple

Back 11

Negatives and questions = usar did

Affirmatives = add -ed in the end of the verb

Front 12

Past perfect

Back 12

Subject + had + past participle

She had traveled - ela tinha viajado

Negative: She had not or hadn't

Contraído: she'd traveled

Front 13

To be no passado

Back 13

I, he, she and it was

You, we, you and they were

Front 14

Third conditional (to start the phrase)

Back 14

If I had paid attention

If + subject + had + past participle

Front 15

Third conditional (to finish the phrase)

Back 15

I wouldn't have got lost

Subject + wouldn't / would + past perfect