Times in English: Create a timeline

Since images and graphics can usually be memorized more quickly and easily, you can also use a timeline to quickly change the times in English learn. This can be created very quickly in just a few steps. You can add the form of formation and examples to the tenses.

Create the timeline

1. The quickest way to display the timeline for the English times is by means of a table. You can use a word processing program for this. Create four columns. Label the dividing line between the first and second column with "Simple Past", the next dividing line with "Simple Present" and the third line with "Future I Simple".
2. The "Past-Progressive" time runs from the first column to the second, as the plot is in this one Form defines a process over a period of time, which extends from the past to the present runs. "Present Progressive" is entered from the second to the third column. This action begins in the present and proceeds within it. The next tense, the "Future I Progressive" is entered in the last two columns.
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3. Enter the forms "Past Perfect Simple" and "Past Perfect Progressive" one below the other in the first column, "Present Perfect Simple" and Present Perfect Progressive "belong in the second column. In the third column you enter "Future II Simple" and "Future II Progressive".

Examples and formation of times in English

Now that you have entered the times in the timeline, it is advisable to add examples and their method of formation to these. This allows the English times to be memorized even better.

• "Past Progressive" is formed with "was / were" infinitive + "ing" ("I was playing tennis"). This is an action that took place at a certain point in time, which is in the past. Common signal words are "yesterday", "last week" and other times.
• "Present progressive" is formed with "to be" infinitive + "ing". You use this tense when something is happening at this moment. "I'm playing tennis". The signal words "now" and "at the moment" often appear here.
• "Future I Progressive" or "Will-Future" is, as the name suggests, formed with "will" and the infinitive. "I will playing tennis" says that you will play tennis in the future. These tenses are information that extends over a period of time.
• "Past Perfect Simple", Present Perfect Simple "and" Future II Simple "define the times at which the result has priority and which take place up to a certain point in time. Examples of this are "He had played tennis an won the match yesterday" for the past, "He has played tennis so far "for the present and" He will have played tennis till this evening "for the Future.
• "Past Perfect Progressive", "Present Perfect Progressive" and "Future II Progressive", on the other hand, define a duration. Most of the time you will find time information that extends over a longer period of time, such as "5 years". These tenses are formed with "had" "been" and the infinitive + "ing" in the past, "have / has" "been" and the infinitive + "ing" in the present and "will" "has / have" and the infinitive + "ing" in the Future.