Twleve Tenses of English Simple Present: I travel to China every year on business. Simple Past: I travelled to China last week on business. Simple future: I will travel to China next week on business. Perfect Present: I have travelled to China a number of times in the past few years. Perfect Past: I had travelled to China a number of times before I became ill. Perfect Future: I will have travelled to China five times by this time next year! Present Continuous: I am travelling to China at the moment. Past Continuous: I was travelling to China when you called. Future Continuous: I will be travelling to China this time tomorrow. Present Perfect Continuous: I have been travelling for twelve hours now so I'm really tired! Past Perfect Continuous: I had been travelling for twelve hours before finally getting some sleep last night! Future Perfect Continuous: I will have been travelling for twelve hours by ten o'clock tonight!