Special Education Teachers: LESSON 4

Today is the fourth class of English Language Proficiency and our lesson today is about Concept of Tenses in English Language .Our lecturer, Mr Marzuki had explain to us the concept clearly and can be understood easily by us .

The verb changes their forms according to time. Tense is the verb form that shows time of action. Tense will show to us when an action takes place. There are three main divisions of time. These divisions are called tenses. There are therefore three main tense that is present, past and also future. Each of the “tenses” can be again divided to show the continuousness or completeness and also the time of the action. For example for present simple sentences “We sleep every night”.

We had learnt a few rules of important tenses that always being use in building of perfect sentences. The Present Simple or indefinite is used to tell about something that we do always and to tell the truth about something. Present Continuous is use to show that something is still happening or going on at the time of speaking. These tense is also used in place of the Future Tense. The Present Perfect Tense is used to show that something has just been completed or finished.

The present Perfect Continuous tense shows the continuous of an action just completed. Past simple tense is used to show something that happened in the past. In addition, Past Continuous Tense is a type of tense that shows us an action which was going on at a certain time in the past. The past Perfect Continuous Tense will shows us that action had been going on at, or before some point in the past. Moreover, the Future simple Tense will also show us that something will be done or will happen in time to come. Lastly, Future Continuous Tense shows that something will be happening at a certain time in the future.

The diagram 1 below shows explicitly the main ideas of these topics;

Pronouns	Noun	Present Simple Tense	Present Continuous Tenses	Present Perfect Tense	Simple Past Tense	Past Continuous Tenses	Past Perfect Tenses	Simple Future Tenses	Future Continuous Tenses
I	climb	climb	am climbing	have climbed	climbed	was climbing	had	will+ verb shall+ verb	shall be climbing at  the mountain at 3 pm
we			are climbing	have climbed		were climbing
you		climb	are climbing	has climbed		were climbing	had+ past participle	will climb	will be climbing
he		climbs	is climbing			was climbing	had
she
it
they		climb	are climbing	have climbed		were climbing

Diagram 1 : Concept of Tenses

A great appreciation to our lecturer HJ Mohd Marzuki Bin Maulid for an effective lesson.

Written by Nurul Atika Binti Nordin.