| Indefinite(Simple) tenses – периодически повторяющиеся или постоянные действия. |
| Present | Past | Future |
| Слова – указатели: | usually, often, sometimes, seldom, as a rule, every day (week, month), from time to time | yesterday, last week (year, month), ago, last night, in 1917, the day before yesterday | tomorrow, next week (month, year), soon, in 3 days, the day after tomorrow |
| Утвердительная форма: |
 He/she/It – works She lives in Minsk. I know it. | workedwrote (II форма глагола) She left Minsk last year. | I/we shall/will/(‘ll) work  I’ll get a diploma in five years. |
| Отрицательная форма: |
 He/she/it – does not work | did not ask/write I didn’t see him yesterday. |  She won’t come here tomorrow. |
| Вопросительная форма: |
| 1. Do you (I, we, they) work? Does he (she, it) work? 2. Where do you work? 3. Do you work or study? 4. He works here, doesn’t he? He doesn’t work, does he? 5. I wonder where he works. 6. Who works here? |   3) Who asked the question? Who wrote the book? | Shall I /we work? Will you (he, she, they) work tomorrow? – Yes, I will./No, I won’t. When will you graduate from university? |
| Запомните! | В придаточных предложениях времени и условия после союзов if, when, as soon as, till, until, before, after, unless, in case, providedдля выражения будущего действия употребляется Present Indefinite(илиPresent Perfect, если подчеркивается завершенность действия). |
| If the weather is fine, we will go out of town. When he leaves school, he will try to enter the university. As soon as I have finished this work, I will go on holiday. |
| The Continuous Tenses to be + Participle I(reading) | употребляются для выражения длительного действия, происходящего в определенный момент в настоящем, прошедшем и будущем. |
| Слова – указатели: | Present Continuous | Past Continuous | Future Continuous |
| now, at this time, at this moment, all day/the whole day | at that time, at 6 o’clock yesterday, the whole day yesterday, then, while, when he came | at 4 o’clock tomorrow at this time tomorrow the whole day tomorrow, when he comes |
| Утверди-тельная форма | am, is, are + working She is watching TV –set. | was / were + working She was watching TV-set all evening. |  She will be watching TV-set all evening tomorrow. |
| Отрицатель-ная форма | am (is, are) not + working She isn’t cooking now. | was / were not + working She wasn’t cooking at 2 o’clock. | will not + be working (won’t) She won’t be cooking anything for supper this evening. |
| Вопроси-тельная форма | Are you reading now? – Yes, I am. What are you reading? | Was he working at 5 yesterday? When was he working in the library? | Will you be working at 2 tomorrow? When will he be working at his report? |
| Perfect Tenses to have + Participle II(done) | употребляются для выражения завершенных действий к данному моменту, к определенному моменту в прошлом и будущем. |
| Слова – указатели: | Present Perfect | Past Perfect | Future Perfect |
| already, just, ever, never, yet, today, lately, this year (week, month), since, for | by that time, by 5 o’clock yesterday, by the end of last year, after, before he came; no sooner… than, scarcely / hardly… when | by this time tomorrow, by then, by 6 o’clock tomorrow, until, by the end of next year; before he comes |
| Утверди-тельная форма |  done I have just spoken to the dean. | had + done No sooner had I come home than the telephone rang. (Не успел … как; как только) |  have + done I’ll have written the report by tomorrow. |
| Отрица-тельная форма |  done I haven’t seen you for ages. | had not + done He hadn’t got any information before I left. | not have + done I won’t have moved into a new flat until I’ve saved enough money for new furniture. |
| Вопросительная форма |
| Present Perfect | Past Perfect | Future Perfect |
  |  By what time had he returned home? |  By what time will it have stopped raining? |
| Perfect Continuous Tenses | Слова – указатели: for (five hours) since(morning, last year, we finished school, 5 o’clock) | Употребляются для описания продолжающихся действий в течение определенного периода времени |
| Present Perfect Continuous | Past Perfect Continuous | Future Perfect Continuous |
| have / has been working | had been working | will have been working |
| I have been studying English for 5 years already. | I had been studying English for 5 years before I entered the university. | We’ll have been studying English for 3 years before we past it. |
| How long have you been working here? | How long had you been studying English before you finished school? | How long will you have been studying English before you pass your final exam? |
| have not / has not been working | had not been working | won’t have been working |
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