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