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Concept and Task 4

CONCEPT - TENSE

What is a tense? What are the basic tenses in English?
Tense is a category for expressing TIME REFERENCE in a language by means of specific forms of verbs. In English, we use THREE basic tenses - Past, Present, and Future.

Past Tense: It indicates an action that happened in the past, relative to the speaker or writer. For example, We visited Cameron Highlands last week.

Present Tense: It indicates an action that happens habitually, everyday, or now, relative to the speaker or writer. For example, I go to guitar class every Saturday.

Future Tense: It indicates an action that will happen in the future, relative to the speaker or writer. For example, She will leave soon.

Further, these basic tenses have sub-tenses. Check the following video for English tenses.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbCYNCbA8KU)


TASK - SING A TENSE

I know the video above went silent all the time. So here's something interesting for you to listen first. Enjoy the video below.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq8TasNsgKw)




If you have noticed, the lyrics of this wonderful song by Celine Dion is mostly in PAST SIMPLE tense along with other sub-tenses. Now, your task is an interesting one. All you have to do is explore and find out a song with SIMPLE PRESENT tense and its other sub-tenses (the ones you have already learned from the first video of this blog!), identify and list down all the tenses. Good luck!

Happy Learning!
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