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