I upload around fifty photos a day to Instagram.
Present Simple for routines and habits/ things that happen repeatedly
People usually stay in touch using message apps or text messages
Present Simple for facts and things that are generally true
I’m looking for a new laptop – a touch screen.
Present Continuous for things happening now or around now
Instant messaging is getting more and more popular with older people.
Present Continuous for situations which are changing during the present time
Before the invention of the Internet and telephone, people communicated by letter.
Past Simple for actions that started and fi nished at a specifi c time in the past
The research team were working with families in an Indian village last month.
Past Continuous for actions in progress at a specifi c time in the past
The video call meeting was going really well until the Internet went down.
Past Continuous for a long activity interrupted by a short one
I have been a blogger for about a year.
Present Perfect Simple for actions and states which began in the past and continue until now
Social media has changed the way we communicate forever.
Present Perfect Simple for fi nished actions in the past when we don’t say exactly when t
I have been using Facebook for ten years but Snapchat is better.
Present Perfect Continuous for an action in progress or repeated over a period of time up until now
I had lost my phone and couldn’t call my parents to say I was OK.
Past Perfect for an action in the past that was completed before another action or time in the past 290 PHOTOCOPIABLE
