1. USE OF ENGLISH
JESSICA BERENICE DIAZ HERNANDEZ
OMAR TORRES FLORES
NESTOR HERNANDEZ CASTAÑEDA
ANTONIO ADAN SANCHEZ PLATA

2. SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE
 Use to express the routines,
daily activities, habits, true facts,
scientific facts, and permanent
situations.

3. STRUCTURE
 Subject + verb in infinitive + complement.
 For he , she , it verb with ending – es,s.
 For this tense use the next auxiliars:
Don´t
conjugat
 Do or does for the questions (?). e the
 Don‟t and doesn‟t for the negative sentences(-).
verb.

4. EXAMPLE:
 He doesn´t play soccer.
 She works in a project.
 I drives in the nigth.
 Do you have homework?

5. PRESENT CONTINUOUS
 Use the Present Continuous with Normal Verbs to
express the idea that something is happening
now, at this very moment. It can also be used to
show that something is not happening now.

6.  FORM
[am/is/are + present participle]
Examples:
• You are watching TV.
• Are you watching TV?
• You are not watching TV.

7. PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE
 We use the Present Perfect to say that an action
happened at an unspecified time.

8.  FORM
[has/have + past participle]
 Examples:
•You have seen that movie many times.
•Have you seen that movie many times?
•You have not seen that movie many times.

9. Simple past
 Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an
action started and finished at a specific time in
the past.

10.  FORM
[VERB+ed] or irregular verbs
Examples:
•You called Debbie.
•Did you call Debbie?
•You did not call Debbie.

11. Used to
 "Used to" expresses the idea that something was
an old habit that stopped in the past. It indicates
that something was often repeated in the past,
but it is not usually done now.

12.  FORM
 [used to + VERB]
Examples:
•Jerry used to study English.
•Sam and Mary used to go to Mexico in the
summer.
•I used to start work at 9 o'clock.
•Christine used to eat meat, but now she is a
vegetarian

13. Past continuous
 Use the Past Continuous to indicate that a longer
action in the past was interrupted. The
interruption is usually a shorter action in the
Simple Past. Remember this can be a real
interruption or just an interruption in time.

14.  FORM
[was/were + present participle]
 Examples:
You were studying when she called.
Were you studying when she called?
You were not studying when she called.

15. Will
 Use “will” in a predictions without evidence,
promises, spontaneous decisions, and offers.

16.  FORM Will
[will + verb]
 Examples:
You will help him later.
Will you help him later?
You will not help him later.

17. Be going to
 Use in predictions based on evidence, plans, and
intentions.
 FORM Be Going To
[am/is/are + going to + verb]
 Examples:
You are going to meet Jane tonight.
Are you going to meet Jane tonight?
You are not going to meet Jane tonight.

18. Simple present as future
 We use the present simple tense to talk
about schedules, plans and timetables.

19. Modal verbs
 Can: Ability / Possibility/Asking for
permission/Request.
 Can´t: Inability / Impossibility
 They can control their own budgets.
 We can‟t fix it.
 Can I smoke here?
 Can you help me?

20.  Have to: is for obligation or necessity.
 Don´t have to: is not necessary or not obligatory.
Examples:
 I have to attend a meeting.
 You don't have to tell Lisa.

21.  Must: is for obligation or necessity but when we
consider it important.
 Musn´t: prohibition.
Examples:
 I must finish this today.
 You mustn't tell Monica about this.

22.  Should / shouldn´t: for give tips.
I think you should marry him.
He should not be late.
 Ougth to: is used to advise or make
recommendations. "Ought to" also expresses
assumption or expectation as well as strong
probability, often with the idea that something is
deserved.
You ought to stop smoking.

23.  Be allowed to: is the conjugation of „may‟.
 Past simple:
Was/were allowed to.
 Present perfect:
have/as been allowed to.
 Future:
will be allowed to.

24.  You´d better: is most commonly used to make
recommendations. It can also be used to express
desperate hope as well as warn people.
 Examples:
You had better take your umbrella with you today.
That bus had better get here soon.
You had better watch the way you talk to me in the
future.

25.  Zero conditional: is used to talk about general
truths, or things that are almost always true under
certain conditions.
 is easy to form because all the verbs are in
present tense. You just use two clauses, one with
If + simple present verb and the other with another
simple present verb
If I'm late for dinner, start eating without me.

26.  First conditional: is used to discuss things
that will probably happen in the future as the
result of something else that happens in the
present.
 The first conditional consists of two clauses, one
with If + simple present verb and the second with
simple future verb, as in
If my brother crashes the car tonight, my
mother will be furious.

27.  Second conditional: We use the second
conditional (also sometimes called the "present
unreal conditional") to talk about a situation that is
not real or is unlikely to occur and its imagined
consequences.
 The second conditional is formed with two
clauses. The first clause consists of If + subject +
past tense verb, The second clause is formed
with "subject + would + verb“.
If I loved her, I would marry her

28.  Third conditional: (also known as the "past unreal
conditional") to talk about situations in the past
that didn‟t happen and their hypothetical
consequences.
 The third conditional consists of two clauses. One
is formed with If + subject + past perfect verb,
The second is formed with subject + would have
+ past participle.
If I had studied, I would have passed the test.

29. Adjectives
 Comparative: we use the comparative degree for
comparing two things.
• One syllable adjective+ er: old older
• Whit ending in –y: dirty dirtier
• Two or more syllable adjectives: boring
more boring
• Irregular adjectives: good better

30.  Superlative: use for comparing three or more things.
• One syllable adjective: cold the coldest
• Whit ending in –y: noisy the noisiest
• Two or more syllable adjectives: expencive the
most expencive
• Irregular adjectives: bad the worst

31.  Equality: When things being compared have
equal characteristics, the comparison of equality
is used.
 To form the comparisons of equality using
adjectives or adverbs:
• as + adjective (adverb) + as.
The book is as good as the movie