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In this Unit I have learned present tenses. Present simple is one of several forms of present tense in English. It is used to describe habits, unchanging situations, general truths, and fixed arrangements. The simple present tense is used to express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and wishes: I smoke (habit), I work in London (unchanging situation), London is a large city (general truth). To give instructions or directions: you walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left. To express fixed arrangements, present or future: your exam starts at 9:00. To express future time, after some conjunctions: after, when, before, as soon as, until: he will give it to you when you come next Saturday. Present Continuous. Usages: to talk about an action that is in progress at the time of speaking, to talk about a temporary action that is not necessarily in progress at hte time of speaking, to emphasize very frequent actions (often with always), background events in a present story, to describe developing situations, to refer to a regular action around a point of time. Present Perfect relates the past to the present and although commonly used by a native speaker, presents some difficulties to the English language learner. Present Perfect Continuous. This tense relates past activities to the present. It implies that either the activity is likely to continue in the future, or that the activity was in progress for some length of time, or both.