Curso de Inglés Avanzado Lección 1

Read the following time expressions and sentences and choose the best time expression for each sentence. Follow the example.

Example: I met him in a bar

1. My boss speaks English
2. I was born in Valencia
3. I'm going to work in the States
4. I'll phone you
5. We were living in Paris
6. My sister has been living abroad
7. I'm flying to Germany to visit a friend
8. I sent her an email
9. I've been getting text messages from you
10. I'm meeting her for coffee

Check your answers.

Listen to the following sentences and write the name of the tense you hear in the space. Follow the example.

Example: (What do you do for a living?)

Choose from the following list of tenses and listen as often as necessary. There is one tense for each example.

present simple

present continuous

past simple

past continuous

future simple

future continuous

present perfect simple

present perfect continuous

past perfect simple

past perfect continuous

future perfect simple

future perfect continuous



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Check your answers.

Now listen again and repeat the sentences.

Past Simple vs Past Continuous

- The most common use of the past continuous is to talk about something that was happening around a particular time in the past.

- We often use the past continuous and the past simple together. When this happens, the past continuous describes a longer background action or situation and the past simple describes the action or events.

- Often the action described by the past simple interrupts the situation described by the past continuous.

"They were watching TV when the bell rang"