7/27/2019 Islcollective Worksheets Upperintermediate b2 Advanced c1 High School Business Professional Reading Writin Tens…

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/islcollective-worksheets-upperintermediate-b2-advanced-c1-high-school-business 1/1

Cheat sheet

Present simple

Talk about things in general:

The café opens at 7.30 in the morning

Talk about general facts

Water freezes at 0 degree

Talk about routine and habitual actionsI read a book every week.

Used in conditional sentences type 1

If I see him I will call you

Present perfect

Recently completed action

He has just finished his lunch

Recent action with result in the present

I have washed the car (it looks fantastic now.)

I have seen wolves in that forest.(it is possible

to see them

Action lasting through incomplete period (since,for + period, all day/night/week, never, recently,

lately …) 

He has been in the army for two years

I have lived in Tunis all my life

Present continuous

Talk about things started and not yet finished or

actions happening now

I am reading the newspaper

For a finite arrangement in the future

I am meeting my boss tonight At 6 I am bathing the baby

With always : when the frequency annoys

He is always losing his keys

My wife is always complaining

More probable and immediate actions

He is going to build the house

Verbs not used with the present continuous

Senses and Involuntary actions : feel, hear, see,

smell  , notice, mind, hate, want ,value… 

Conditional

Type 1 -> probable

If + present simple --- future simple

If you run you will get there in time

If the fog gets thicker the plane might/may

be diverted .-> possible 

If your documents are in order you may/can

leave .-> permission 

If you want to lose weight you must/have

to/should eat less bread. -> Command. If you heat ice it will turn to water ->

automatic habitual result. 

Type 2 -> unreality in the present

If + past simple --- would + verb

If I lived near my office I would be in time for

work -> supposition contrary to facts

If a burglar came into my room I would fight

him -> not expecting it  

If you tried again you might succeed ->

 possible result

If shops were open I could buy you somemilk -> ability

Type 3 -> unreality in the past

If + past perfect --- would + have + past participle

verb

If Ben Ali had stayed in the country things

would have been different.-> but he had left

the country  

Future simple

Express opinions about the future

I am sure he will come backI suppose they will sell the house

In condition sentences

If I drop this glass it will break

Future with intention

I will cut the grass this afternoon

Future continuous

Talk about an action that starts in the future and

continues is the future

On Saturday there is no class Bill will be

playing tennis and Ann will be shopping withher mother

Future without intention : casual not planned

I will be seeing Tom tomorrow

Simple past

Action that happened and ended in the past

The great war ended in 1945

I read that book two weeks ago

Past perfect

The past of the pastWhen you started learning English I had

started already teaching it.

He said that he had been in the service sector

for five years.(reported speech).