Past simple vs. Past continuous

Future Simple

• We use WILL + infitive to talk about something that we think, believe or know will happen in the future: "We won´t be late".
• We can also use WILL when we suddenly decide to do something:

A: I´m leaving.
B: I´ll come with you.

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Definite and Indefinite articles.

"Hay un DVD con esta revista. Quiero ver el DVD ".
"DVDs son caros. ¿Dónde están los DVDs? "

• Utilizamos un / una con un nombre singular, cuando hablamos de una cosa, pero no es claro que lo que queremos decir:

"Hay un DVD con esta revista ". (No está claro qué DVD que quiero decir.)

• Utilizamos el con un sustantivo en singular o en plural, cuando está claro que cosa o cosas que queremos decir: "Quiero ver el DVD ". (Sabemos que DVD.)
• No utilizamos un / una con nombres en plural: "Él tiene un problema. " "Tiene problemas".

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Immediate Future tense

• We use be going to + infinitive to talk about things we have decided to do or not to do in the future: 

           I´m going to stay at home tomorrow.

• We often use these time expressions when we talk about the future: tonight, tomorrow, next week / year / month, in January, in the summer, on Monday, this week / weekend / month: Are you going to watch the match tonight?

Affirmative:
I´m going to watch.
She / He / It is going to watch.
You / We / They are going to watch.

Negative:
I´m not going to watch.
She / He / It isn´t going to watch.
You / We / They aren´t going to watch.

Questions:
Am I going to watch?
Is she / he / it going to watch?
Are you / we / they going to watch?


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Past Perfect tense

"Sarah went to a party last week. Paul went to the party too, but they didn´t see each other. Paul left the party at 10:30 and Sarah arrived at 11:00. So: When Sarah arrived at the party, Paul wasn´t there. He had gone home".

Had gone is the past perfect.

The past perfect simple is had + past participle (gone / seen / finished etc.)

Sometimes we talk about something that happened in the past:

• Sarah arrived at the party.

This is the starting point of the story. Then, if we want to talk about things that happened before this time, we use the past perfect (had.....):

• When Sarah arrived at the party, Paul had already gone home.

Affirmative:

I / You / We / They / He / She / It had gone.

Negative:

I / You / We / They / He / She / It hadn´t gone.

Question:

Had I / you / we / they / he / she / it gone?

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Past Continuous

We use the past continuous to talk about:

• an action that was in progress at a time in the past. The action started before that time and continued after that time: I was watching TV at six.
• two actions that were in progress at the same time in the past: I was talking to Luke while Kate was making dinner.

We use while with the two verbs. Notice when we use a comma (,):
I was talking to Luke while Kate was making dinner.
While Kate was making dinner, I was talking to Luke.

Affirmative:
I / She / He / It was playing.
You / We / They were playing.

Negative:
I / She / He / It wasn´t playing.
You / We / They weren´t playing.

Question:
Was I / she / he / it playing?
Were you / we / they playing?

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