Eccoci, il primo giorno del corso!
Come il primo giorno della scuola elementare, no? Tutti ansiosi… chi sono gli altri alunni? Dove è finito la mia amica? Cosa succederà?? Aiuto!
Tranquilli, andrà tutto bene.
Ringrazi
1. Per tutti i commenti! Fantastico. Sono veramente motivato dalla risposta. Grazie.
2. Nessun ha corretto gli errori nel mio italiano… Di nuovo, grazie.
Oggi imparerai
- com’è il “sistema” dei tempi verbali inglese
- quale sono i “tempi verbali” che non fanno parte del “sistema” (e perché esistono)
Il “sistema” dei tempi verbali in inglese
Come ci ha detto Rossana ieri, in realtà ci sono solo due “tempi” in inglese (presente e passato), perché la definizione usato dai linguisti parla dei forme diverse del verbo per indicare momenti diversi in tempo: “go” e “went”, oppure “work” e “worked”.
Tutti gli altri elementi del “sistema” non sono “ufficialmente” tempi, ma sono forme costruite con vari elementi come i verbi ausiliari o modali.
“I am writing” è composto del verbo “to be” e il participio presente, quindi non è un “tempo” diverso.
Ma per il scopo di questo corso, possiamo usare “tempo verbale” per indicare qualsiasi forma del verbo che comunica qualcosa per quanto riguarda il tempo….
Quanti sono i tempi verbali in inglese?
Present Simple
Present Progressive (A.K.A. Present Continuous)
Present Perfect
Present Perfect ProgressivePast Simple
Past Progressive
Past Perfect
Past Perfect ProgressiveFuture Simple
Future Progressive
Future Perfect
Future Perfect Progressive
Quindi, 12. Ha risposto correttmante Brunetta!
O quasi. Ci sono anche le forme:
Used to + infinitvo (senza il “to”)
Going to + infinitivo (senza il “to”)
Siamo arrivati a 14!!
Come puoi vedere, c’è un “sistema” che sembra abbastanza coerente, poi qualche aggiunti.
Perché esistono così tanti formi?
Perché funzionano bene a comunicare qualcosa per quando riguarda gli “eventi”, cioè quelli azioni o stati che descriviamo con i verbi.
Che cosa possono comunicare così tanti formi?? Arriviamo ai significati in una lezione futuro, ma per oggi, proviamo a capire come sono costruite (con i verbi ausiliari e modali, ti riccordo?)
Compiti
Per domani, ragazzi! Voglio una frase con le parole “I” “make” “pizza”, conjugato per ognuno dei 14 formi qui sotto (va bene solo la forma affermativa, non esageriamo!)
Per aiutarti, ho fatto i primi quattro:
Present Simple: I make pizza
Present Progressive: I am making pizza
Present Perfect: I have made pizza
Present Perfect Progressive: I have been making pizza
Past Simple
Past Progressive
Past Perfect
Past Perfect Progressive
Future Simple
Future Progressive
Future Perfect
Future Perfect Progressive
Used to + infinitvo (senza il “to”)
Going to + infinitivo (senza il “to”)
Sommario della lezione di oggi
1. Ci sono 12 formi “regolari” e due (o più) altri formi che possono essere visti come un parte del quadro completo di tempi verbali inglesi
2. Esistono perché (in inglese) sono utili per comunicare qualcosa, ognuno ha un “significato” diverso (di cui più in una lezione futura)
Don’t forget
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monica dice
Hi Daniel,
nice to hear from you again.
Homeworks (hope they are correct)
Past Simple – I made pizza
Past Progressive – I had been making pizza
Past Perfect -I had made pizza
Past Perfect Progressive – I had been making pizza
Future Simple – I will make pizza
Future Progressive – I will be making pizza
Future Perfect – I will have made pizza
Future Perfect Progressive – I will have been making pizza
Used to + infinitvo (senza il “to”) – I used to make
Going to + infinitivo (senza il “to”) – I am going to make pizza
Daniel dice
You’ve mixed up the Past Progressive & the Past Perfect Progressive, Monica. Other than that, it’s fine.
Federica dice
Good morning!
My homework:
Past simple: I made pizza
Past progressive: I was making pizza
Past perfect: I had made pizza
Past perfect Progressive: I had been making pizza
Future simple: I will make pizza
Future progressive: I’ll be making pizza
Future Perfect: I will have made pizza
Future Perfect Progressive: I will have been making pizza
Used to + infinitvo : I used to do pizza
Going to + infinito: I’m going to do pizza
Grazie per l’aiuto Daniel.
Buona giornata.
Federica
🙂
Daniel dice
Good job, Federica. All correct!
And thanks for joining in the course. Hope to hear from you again soon.
gloria dice
Hi Daniel, I’m the last one!
Present Simple: I make pizza
Present Progressive: I am making pizza
Present Perfect: I have made pizza
Present Perfect Progressive: I have been making pizza
Past Simple: I made pizza
Past Progressive: I was making pizza
Past Perfect I had made pizza
Past Perfect Progressive I had been making pizza
Future Simple I’ll make pizza
Future Progressive I’ll be making pizza
Future Perfect: I’ll have made pizza
Future Perfect Progressive: I’ll have been making pizza
Used to + infinitvo (senza il “to”)
Going to + infinitivo (senza il “to”)
Future perfect I’ll have made pizza
Future perfect progressive I’ll have been making pizza
Used to I used to make pizza
Going to.. I’m going to make pizza
I used to make pizza
I’m going to make pizza
Thank you
Daniel dice
10/10, Gloria. Well done and thanks for participating!
Oriana dice
Hi, Daniel ( or professor?) I really like your lessons!!! I love English very much, but I ‘ve never enough time as I would like to study and make a qualitative leap, so I hope you’ll help me to do it. I’m ready to start and thi stime I’ll do my best. I’d appreciate if you could correct any mistakes in my comment, please. Thanks for your help. Bye
My homework:
Past simple I made pizza
Past progressive I was making pizza
Past perfect I had made pizza
Past perfect progressive I had been making pizza
Future simple I’ll make pizza
Future progressive I’ll be making pizza
Future perfect I’ll have made pizza
Future perfect progressive I’ll have been making pizza
Used to I used to make pizza
Going to.. I’m going to make pizza
Daniel dice
Hi Oriana,
“Daniel” is fine. Welcome, thanks for commenting, and thanks for the positive feedback.
Your tenses are all conjugated correctly, so 10/10.
You made no significant mistakes in your comment (well done!), but note that “appreciate” in English is transitive. So “I’d appreciate IT if you could…”
Bye for now!
antonella dice
Good afternoon, Daniel! How are you? Always thinking of going on with us 🙂 ?
I tried to do my best with the homework:
Present Simple: I make pizza (usually)
Present Progressive: I am making pizza (now)
Present Perfect: I have made pizza (many times)
Present Perfect Progressive: I have been making pizza (for two hours)
Past Simple I made pizza (yesterday)
Past Progressive I was making pizza (when I decided to eat out)
Past Perfect I’d (I had) made pizza (before I decided to eat out)
Past Perfect Progressive I’d been making pizza (for two hours when I decided to eat out)
Future Simple I’ll make pizza (this evening, for dinner)
Future Progressive I’ll be making pizza (when you arrive for dinner)
Future Perfect I’ll have made pizza (by the time you arrive)
Future Perfect Progressive I’ll have been making pizza (for two hours when you arrive)
Used to + infinitvo (senza il “to”) I used to make pizza (before you decided to eat out every night)
Going to + infinitivo (senza il “to”) I’m going to make pizza ( if you are not going to go out for dinner!)
Please, correct any mistakes! Thanks, have a nice day! Antonella
Daniel dice
Very well, thank you, Antonella. And you?
Your homework is pretty comprehensive. Well done. Not entirely sure about your contexts/examples for Present Perfect and Going To, though. Still, we’ll be addressing meaning in future lessons.
You asked for correction. The word “always” in your question “Always thinking of going on with us 🙂 ?” is, how shall I put this, “non-standard”..
(That’s a non-judgemental way of saying “wrong”. Linguist’s joke.)
But I’m sure you could correct yourself… Try again??
Michelangelo Amico dice
In ognuno delle frasi che avete pubblicato è possibile avere la traduzione italiana? Grazie.
Saluti
Daniel dice
Magari fosse così semplice, Michelangelo. Come vedrai nelle prossime lezioni, il problema con i tempi verbali è che sono diverse tra inglese e italiano….
Niag20 dice
Shall I keep on doing the exercise you started?
so..beginning from the past simple:
I made pizza
I was making pizza
I had been made pizza
I had been making pizza
I will make pizza
I will be making pizza
I will have made pizza
I will have been making pizza
I really hope you could get us more familiar with all of these tenses so that speaking english will be easier and spontaneous above all.
At the moment I’m reading my first book in English in order to ‘catch’ as many informal and most usual expressions as I can and to improve my speaking skills too…my goal will be reached when I’ll be able to speak without thinking anymore ahah
Thank you soo much!
Daniel dice
All correct, Niag20. Good job.
Don’t worry, by the end of the course, you’ll be familiar with all of the tense forms in the list. Don’t guarantee you’ll be able to use them perfectly, but at least you recognise them when you see/hear them, and that will be a start.
Reading’s an excellent way to improve your grammar, as it give’s your brain lots and lots of examples in context. Much better than grammar exercises! I learnt Italian almost entirely by reading (gialli).
Gaetana Di Palermo dice
Compiti fatti (spero bene): I made pizza/I was making pizza/I had made pizza/ I had been making pizza/ I will make pizza/ I will be making pizza/I will have made pizza/I will have making pizza/ I used to make pizza/ I’m going to make pizza.
Daniel dice
10/10 Gaetana!
Virginia dice
Compiti: (a parte i primi quattro)
Past simple: I made pizza
Past Progressive: I was making pizza
Past Perfect: I had made pizza
I compiti
Past Perfect : I had pizza
Past Perfect Progressive: I had been making pizza
Future Simple: I will make pizza
Future Progressive: I’ll be making
Future Perfect: I will have made pizza
Future Perfect Progressive: I will have been making pizza
Used to + infinitvo (senza il “to”): I used to do pizza
Going to + infinitivo (senza il “to”): I’m going to do pizza
Hi Daniel,
also for me this is the firs time I leave a comment, I must say It’a pleasure to hear from you again.
Thanks alot for all your help, really useful to me! This year I’m going to teach Englishin a Primary school for the secon time and I am sure your lessons will be usefull to me!! I’m really happy as my first experience has been interesting and pleasant and pupils were very happy to start interacting in English with me and their classmates. Sorry for mistakes!!!!
Have a nice day .
Virginia
Daniel dice
Apart from the verbs (confusing “make” and “do”), good job, Virginia.
And thanks for commenting. Hope to hear a lot more from you in the coming weeks!
Primary school teacher, eh? Rather you than me! That’s really HARD WORK!
stefania dice
I did my homework and I’m waiting for your corrections (?) and form now I’ll try to write just in english.
Thanks for your help
Greetings
Stefania
Daniel dice
If you want corrections of mistakes in your English (like I DON’T for my Italian), just ask:
“Please correct any mistakes in this comment”.
Otherwise I won’t, OK?? Don’t want to discourage anyone from writing…
stefania dice
Compiti: (a parte i primi quattro)
Past simple: I made pizza
Past Progressive: I was making pizza
Past Perfect: I had made pizza
Past Perfect Progressive: I had been making pizza
Future Simple: I will make pizza
Future Progressive: I’ll be making
Future Perfect: I will have made pizza
Future Perfect Progressive: I will have been making pizza (???)
Used to + infinitvo (senza il “to”): I used to do pizza
Going to + infinitivo (senza il “to”): I’m going to do pizza
Daniel dice
9 out of 10, Stefania. Good job! (You lost a point for careless errors. And anyway, my kids tell me their teachers “never give 10”)
stefania dice
bentornato Daniel,
sono proprio contenta di ricominciare. Mi sono persa il corso di questa estate relativo alla corretta pronuncia inglese ma non intendo perdere questo, quindi sono pronta ed in ascolto.
Il tuo italiano presentera’ pure qualche imprecisione ma sarei ben felice se il mio inglese fosse allo stesso livello del tuo italiano.
Quindi grazie dell’aiuto!
Stefania
Daniel dice
Grazie, Stefania. Bentornata anche a te.
Il corso di pronuncia è automatico, non in tempo reale come questo. Se ti interessa, basta compilare il modulo sul sito… Riceverai lezioni in format .pdf via e-mail. Vale la pena, è un corso molto originale!
Sai? Per quanto riguarda il mio italiano, mi pare che più che lo uso (ad esempio, proprio ora), più che diventa facile, se non corretto!
Provo di motivare i miei studenti di usare inglese per lo stesso motivo!
Hai visto che altre persone qui scrivono in inglese? Perché non provare anche tu??
A presto!
P.S. ANCORA NIENTE COMPITI… Non mi dite che è troppo difficile conjugare “Io preparo la pizza” in 14 formi verbali?? Allora questo corso vi serve davvero!!
Maria Laura dice
Hi Daniel,
this is the firs time I leave a comment, but I’m in the news letter and I’ve been following your lessons since the last year, more or less!
Thanks for your help!!
This year I’m going to work as tutor in a private school of English and my job will be help italian students to improve their language skills.. I’m worried, it’s the first time for me, but I’m sure your lessons will be usefull to refresh my English!
Thank you so much!
Daniel dice
Hi Maria Laura,
Nice to hear from you. I hope you’ll be a regular contributor from now on!
Best of luck with your teaching. I’m sure you’ll do great.
And, if this helps, in my experience as a manager of teachers, the ones that worry are usually the best.
Nothing worse than a teacher who thinks they know everything!
(But, where’s all the homework???? Come on, everybody!)
Silvia dice
Hello Daniel!
Thank you for all your lessons, they are very useful to brush up on grammar!
I have just a question… If you consider “going to” and “used to” as a kind of tense, can you consider also “to be about to” as an outsider?
Have a lovely day!
Silvia
Daniel dice
Yes, but if you were teaching the course, would you have included that form at this point??
And there are others… If we assume that we are listing “verb forms” that have meanings similar or the same as “tenses” in Italian, you could also count the use of “would + infinitive” for past habit (like your “imperfetto”). There’s also the “is to” future form, as in “Queen Elizabeth is to address parliament this afternoon”.
Probably more, too. But let’s focus on the “elephant in the room” for now. Anzi, “elephants”, which as I’m sure you know are (for Italians), the progressive and perfect aspects.
By the way, for anyone reading this who has no idea what we’re talking about, not to worry. In time, you will!
Maria Elena dice
Rieccomi, sono il tuo incubo. Nessuno ha corretto i tuoi errori perché tutti hanno capito che è una battaglia persa in partenza ma sei simpatico e te li perdoniamo. Quanto alla lezione di oggi: come faccio a mettere in pratica le forme verbali che non conosco? Dammi almeno una traccia.
Daniel dice
Bello sentirti, Maria Elena.
Grazie per la tolleranza per quanto riguarda il mio italiano. Lo apprezzo. (Quando scrivo in inglese, NON ci sono errori…)
Per quanto riguarda i tempi, come tanti compiti dato dai docenti, lo scopo è di stimularvi. Potresti fare un ricerca in Google (non è vietato), “copiare” dal compagno di banco (vedrai, qualcuno lo farà tutto entro il fine di oggi), oppure semplicemente aspettare le risposte, domani.
A presto!