Matching Pairs speakout inter u 1 tensesOnline version match the sentences with explanations of the tense used by Margo Gushchina 1 She always comes home late at night. 2 He is always being late. 3 I’m quite busy these days. I’m doing the course at college. 4 Emma passed her exam last year. 5 They’re flying to Tokyo next week. 6 Tina was doing the washing-up while the children were playing in the garden. 7 At 5 o’clock yesterday I was cooking dinner. 8 The Sun goes round the Earth. 9 I’m reading a magazine now. 10 He usually played football in his free time. 11 She was having breakfast when the phone rang. habits or facts in the past to express annoyance, or when you think that something happens too often with the adverbs always, constantly universal facts, truths future plans (arrangements) the action that is happening at the moment of speaking action in progress at a definite time in the past past action in progress which was interrupted by a short action temporary action happening around the time of speaking two actions in progress happening at the same time in the past permanent actions, habits finished actions in the past