Revision - Time Expressions and Verb Tenses

Dear All,
I'm correcting your last compositions and feel very frustrated that certain patterns are still not clear to you, or at least you're not putting them into practice as I expected you would by now. In a text, the way you conjugate verbs says a lot about your level, so you'd better be careful with that aspect of grammar if you want to improve ;-)

Here's a little list of common patterns combining time expressions and verb tenses:

Time expression	Verb tense
Currently	PRESENT
At present
Nowadays / Now
These days
Recently	PRESENT PERFECT
Lately
Over the last … years / months / centuries
In 1973 … (a date from the past)	PAST
On 2nd May, 1808 (a date from the past)
Last year / month / century, etc.
Yesterday
… days / weeks / months ago

Hope that helps!