Verb tenses are used to express time in any language. But be careful, many English tenses do not have direct translation in Spanish.
|Simple Present||• Regular actions in the present
• General facts
• Timetables or schedules
|He visits his father on Sundays
Cats like milk The train leaves at 10:20
|always, usually, often, sometimes, never, seldom, every ..., on ...|
||• Actions happening now, at this very moment
• Actions that are going on around the time of speaking
• Actions or events in the near future that have already been planned
|They are doing their homework
My son is studying to become a doctor
Is he visiting his parents next weekend?
|now, at the moment, at present,|
||• A completed action that took place at a time in the past
• Several actions in the past, one after another.
|I didn't play tennis yesterday
He got up, had a shower and got dressed
|yesterday, last ... , before, ago, when ...|
||• Actions in progress at a specific time in the past
• Two incomplete actions happening at the same time
• An interrupted action in the past
|Yesterday at this time, I was flying to Rome
What were you doing while Susan was talking?
I was listening to my Ipod when she phoned