Print Matching Game: Time and message (communicative message)

1. The plane leaves in ten minutes.

2. Tom is leaving in two weeks.

3. Khan Academy has become popular with today's students.

4. The government has been conducting a census every ten years.

5. This must be her house. I can see her car in the garage.

6. It can't have been easy for him, looking after three kids on his own.

7. If the weather is nice, we'll go swimming.

8. I would buy a big house if I won the lottery.

9. The hormone used in the contraceptive pill was synthesized by a Mexican.

10. The mail is sorted in the office by hand.

Past discovery

Past

Future

Deduction of certainty (I'm sure it was not)

Emphasis on prolongation of action

Present process

Emphasis on result in present

Hypothetical situation

Present

Deduction of certainty (I'm sure it is)

Emphasis on recepient of action

Present-Future

Future plans

Unreal Present

Arrangements

Emphasis on receiver of action

Present with continuity from past

Timetable

Real Possibility

Present with reference to past