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Unit 4 focused on the present tense and the types there are. Moreover, each form was broken down into its uses, typical student errors and Activate stage teaching ideas. Students often find the tense system difficult to learn and therefore it is important for the teacher to have a good understanding of the material and to recognize the types of mistakes a student is making and why they might be making these mistakes. The first present tense discussed was the present simple which is the verb tense used most often when an action is happening right now or when it happens regularly. In order to form the third person singular an 's' or 'es' is generally added to the base form of the verb. Next the unit discussed the present continuous; this tense is made using the present simple tense of the auxiliary verb 'to be' and the present participle (ie. the verb + ing). The present continuous if generally used to talk about an action in progress during the time of speaking, to emphasize frequent actions, background information for a story, to refer to a regular action around a certain point of time or to discuss a temporary action that doesn't have to be happening at the time of speaking. Unit 4 also touched upon the present perfect tense. The present perfect relates the past to the present; this tense uses the auxiliary verb 'to have' plus a past participle. The main uses of the present perfect are talking about finished actions/states that happened at an indefinite time, when we are thinking about completed past actions carried out in an unfinished time period, when we discuss something that began in the past but is still true now, and when we describe past actions with present results. Lastly, the present perfect continuous tense was covered in this unit; this tense relates past activities to the present, and implies that the activity is likely to continue in the future or that the activity was carried out for some length of time or both. This tense is formed by using the auxiliary verb 'to have' + ing.
