Relier Pairs speakout inter u 1 tensesVersion en ligne match the sentences with explanations of the tense used par Margo Gushchina 1 I’m quite busy these days. I’m doing the course at college. 2 She was having breakfast when the phone rang. 3 Emma passed her exam last year. 4 They’re flying to Tokyo next week. 5 He is always being late. 6 At 5 o’clock yesterday I was cooking dinner. 7 Tina was doing the washing-up while the children were playing in the garden. 8 I’m reading a magazine now. 9 She always comes home late at night. 10 The Sun goes round the Earth. 11 He usually played football in his free time. finished actions in the past universal facts, truths permanent actions, habits temporary action happening around the time of speaking to express annoyance, or when you think that something happens too often with the adverbs always, constantly two actions in progress happening at the same time in the past future plans (arrangements) past action in progress which was interrupted by a short action habits or facts in the past the action that is happening at the moment of speaking action in progress at a definite time in the past