English Tenses and Movie Vocabulary

Posted on Nov 17, 2024 in Teaching & Education

Present Tenses

Present Simple

I/You/We/They work; He/She/It works (routines, habits, facts, schedules)

Do I work? Does he work? (always, usually, often, sometimes)

Present Continuous

I am playing; You/We/They are playing; He/She/It is playing

I am not playing; We aren’t playing; He isn’t playing

Am I playing? Are you playing? Is he playing? (actions happening now, at the moment, this year)

Past Tenses

Past Simple

I/You/We/They/He/She/It played

He/I/You… didn’t play

Did I play? (completed past actions, yesterday, last week, when)

Past Continuous

I was playing; We/They/You were playing; He/She/It was playing

Wasn’t, weren’t

Was I playing? Were they playing? (incomplete past actions, interrupted actions, while, as)

Past Perfect Simple

I/He/We had arrived

Hadn’t played

Had I played/eaten? (action before another past action, already, by the time, after, before, until, never, just)

Example: By the time he arrived, the train had already left.

Present Perfect Simple

I/You/We have lived; He/She/It has lived

I haven’t lived; He hasn’t lived

Have I/You/We lived? Has He/She/It lived? (actions started in the past and continuing, recent actions)

Future Tenses

Future Simple

I will play

I won’t play

Will I play? (sudden decisions, predictions, this evening, later, in an hour, tomorrow)

Be Going To

I am/You are/He is/We are going to buy

I am not/aren’t/isn’t going to buy

Am I/Are you/Is he going to buy? (intentions, plans, imminent events)

Future Continuous

I will be travelling

I won’t be travelling

Will I be travelling? (actions in progress at a future time, at this time tomorrow, on Thursday, in the next year)

Future Perfect Simple

I will have eaten

I won’t have eaten

Will I have eaten? (actions completed by a future time, by the time)

3rd Conditional

If + Past Perfect (had played/gone/learnt), + would have + verb (learnt)

Sarah would have learnt French if she had gone to the lessons.

If Jack had come, we could/might have eaten earlier.

If I had read the email, I would have gone on the date.

He could/might have met her if he had gone to the party.

Vocabulary

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amazed by: sorprès per, amused by: divertit,entretingut, amusing: graciós divertit, awful: espantós, base on a novel: basar en una novela, box-office hit: èxit de taquilla, cast: repartiment (actors), chance: oportunitat, cooperate: cooperar,collaborar, costumes: vestuari, direct: dirigir, dreadful: pèssim, espantós, dull: avorrit, ensopit, eventually: finalment,amb el temps, face: enfrontar-se, fluent in: que parla amb fluidesa, get rave reviews: aconseguir,tenir critiques molt favorables, hilarious: molt divertit, last: durar, main character: personatge principal, out of this world: increible, fantastic, play the part of: fer el paper de, plot: trama,argument, race riot: disturbi racial, rating: valoració, realise: adonar-se’n, release: estrenar, review: fer una critica, rude to: groller amb, screen: projectar, star: protagonitzar el paper principal, struggle: lluita, tell the history: explicar la història de, terrify: aterrir, thrilled by: encantat, contentissim amb, thrilling: emocionant, troubled: problemàtic, ultimately: en el fons, unconventional: original, (be) worth seeing: valer la pena veure