Past perfect

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This lesson contains 29 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 2 videos.

time-iconLesson duration is: 45 min

Items in this lesson

Slide 1 - Video

What tense is used in this video?

Slide 2 - Mind map

How do you form
the past perfect?

Slide 3 - Mind map

Slide 4 - Slide

What is happening in this sentence?
When he arrived to the train station, the train had already left.

What happened
first?

Slide 5 - Slide

Slide 6 - Slide

Past Perfect
Had + voltooid deelwoord





  1. I watched TV after I had done my homework.
  2. After he had signed a contract, he started his training again.

Slide 7 - Slide

🇬🇧 Past Simple 

🇳🇱 Verleden Tijd


ww+ed

(irr. verb = 2e vorm)



I saw him yesterday.



🇬🇧 Past Perfect

🇳🇱 Voltooid Verleden Tijd




🇬🇧 Past Simple 
🇳🇱 Verleden Tijd

ww+ed
(irr. verb = 2e vorm)

He arrived to the train station.


I decided to walk home.
🇬🇧 Past Perfect 
🇳🇱 Voltooid Verleden Tijd

had + ww+ed
(irr. verb = had + 3e vorm)

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 8 - Slide

Slide 9 - Slide

I had been stuck in the lift for hours when a fireman finally came and rescued me.

Slide 10 - Slide

I had always walked home until I bought my first car.

Slide 11 - Slide

These are the signal words when using the past perfect....
A
ago, last week, in 2020, , last month, yesterday
B
after, before, when, as soon as, until

Slide 12 - Quiz

Past Perfect
Had + voltooid deelwoord





  1. I watched TV after I had done my homework.
  2. After he had signed a contract, he started his training again.

Slide 13 - Slide

After my father .....(watch) TV,
he ..... (fall) asleep
A
watched - fell
B
had watched - had fallen
C
watches - falls
D
had watched - fell

Slide 14 - Quiz

When I ..... (score) the winning goal, everyone ..... (cheer).
A
score - cheer
B
had scored - cheered
C
scored - have cheered
D
scored - cheered

Slide 15 - Quiz

As soon as they ..... (enter) the cinema, the film ..... (start).
A
entered - started
B
enter - starts
C
had entered - started
D
entered - had started

Slide 16 - Quiz

Before she ..... breakfast, she ..... (take) a bath.
A
has - takes
B
had - took
C
has - has took
D
had - had taken

Slide 17 - Quiz

Past Perfect
Had + voltooid deelwoord





  1. I watched TV after I had done my homework.
  2. After he had signed a contract, he started his training again.

Slide 18 - Slide

After I                                a hamburger I                                 sick.
ate
had eaten
felt
had felt

Slide 19 - Drag question

My uncle ..... (to claim) we ..... (not + to tell) him about the party. (use short form and "-" between your answers)

Slide 20 - Open question

Pete                           he                                  his homework.
had said
said
hadn't done
didn't do

Slide 21 - Drag question

When I ..... (to enter) the class, the lesson ..... (already + to start). (use "-"
between your answers)

Slide 22 - Open question

Before they                              to the cinema they                      
out for dinner.
had gone
went
had gone
went

Slide 23 - Drag question

I ..... (to go) to bed, immediately after I ..... (to finish) reading my book. (use "-" between the answers)

Slide 24 - Open question

Slide 25 - Slide

Slide 26 - Video

Slide 27 - Slide

Slide 28 - Link

Well done!

Slide 29 - Slide