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