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