There are two tenses in English – past and present.

在英語里有兩種時態—過去時和現在時。

The present tenses in English are used:

現在時在英語里：

to talk about the present

可以描述現在

to talk about the future

可以描述將來

to talk about the past when we are telling a story in spoken English or when we are summarising a book, film, play etc。

在口語中講過去的故事或者在描述一本書、電影或者戲劇時，用現在時

There are four present tense forms in English:

英語里現在時有四種形式：

英語語法入門：現在時

We use these forms:

to talk about the present:

He works at McDonald’s. He has worked there for three months now.

He is working at McDonald’s. He has been working there for three months now.

London is the capital of Britain.

to talk about the future:

The next train leaves this evening at 1700 hours.

I’ll phone you when I get home.

He’s meeting Peter in town this afternoon.

I’ll come home as soon as I have finished work.

You will be tired out after you have been working all night.

We can use the present tenses to talk about the past.