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Past Perfect
You know and can consciously use the past perfect tense
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Past Perfect
You know and can consciously use the past perfect tense

Slide 1 - Slide

Fill in the Past Perfect:
When I walked in, the meeting ___already___ (start).

Slide 2 - Open question

Past Perfect
  • When you want to say that something in the past happened before something else happened. 

E.g.: I had never flown in an airplane, before I went to London.





Slide 3 - Slide

🇬🇧 Past Simple 

🇳🇱 Verleden Tijd


ww+ed

(irr. verb = 2e vorm)


I 


I saw him yesterday.



🇬🇧 Past Perfect

🇳🇱 Voltooid Verleden Tijd




Past Simple 

verb +ed
(irr. verb = 2nd form)

He arrived to the train station.

I decided to walk home.
Past Perfect 

had + verb +ed
(irr. verb = had + third form)

When he arrived to the train station the train had left.

I had lost my bike key so I decided to walk home.


The Past Perfect shows what happened first in the past.

Slide 4 - Slide

When they _______ (finish) school, they _______ (go) to the mall.
A
had finished - went
B
finished - had gone

Slide 5 - Quiz

They ________ (show) me the pictures they ________ (take) during their holiday.
A
had shown - took
B
showed - had taken

Slide 6 - Quiz

The boy _______ (be) sorry for what he ______ (do).
A
had been - did
B
was - had done

Slide 7 - Quiz

What is the tense in this sentence?
I grew up in the Netherlands.
A
Present Simple
B
Past Simple
C
Present Perfect
D
Past Perfect

Slide 8 - Quiz

Which two tenses are used below?
"They had travelled all over the world, before they settled in New York."
A
Present Simple
B
Past Simple
C
Present Perfect
D
Past Perfect

Slide 9 - Quiz

They … (close) the bar after the last guest … (depart)
A
closed, departed
B
closed, had departed
C
had closed, departed
D
had closed, had departed

Slide 10 - Quiz

After the meeting … (finish), they … (go) out for a drink.
A
finished, went
B
finished, had gone
C
had finished, went
D
had finished, had gone

Slide 11 - Quiz

Fill in the Past Perfect:
After he ______ (pass) his exam, he threw a party.

Slide 12 - Open question

Fill in the Past Perfect:
He was shocked because he ____ never ____ (see) anything like this.

Slide 13 - Open question

After they ... (eat) the shellfish, they ... (begin) to feel sick.

Slide 14 - Open question

She .... (live) in China before she ... (go) to Thailand.

Slide 15 - Open question

When I ... (arrive) at the cinema, the film .... (start).

Slide 16 - Open question

When we ... (finish) dinner, we ... (go) out.

Slide 17 - Open question

The referee ... (to pull) a red card, because the player ... (to make) a foul.

Slide 18 - Open question

Individual work
Exercises
More exercise

Slide 19 - Slide

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