Past Perfect 3h (E- grammar, past perfect)

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Past Perfect

3h

14-1-2026

Past Perfect

Warming -up

Listen to the story and try to find as many past perfects as you can.

I know why I should learn and use the past pefect.

I know how to make a past perfect.

I know when to use the past perfect.

Explanation

Open your notebook and take notes during the explanation.

Write down:

• How do you make the past perfect?
• When do you use the past perfect?

How does it work?

Present Simple - I work hard every day.

Past Simple - I lost my keys yesterday.

Present Perfect - I have lost my keys.

Past Perfect - They had left before the show ended.

How does it work?

Past Perfect        -           had + past participle

something happened in the past before something else happened in the past.

Remember: 

part participle regular = verb + ed

past participle irregular = 3e rijtje onregelmatige werkwoorden

 

When do you use Past Perfect?

- If you want to add information to a story / text.

- If you want to tell something that happened before something else happened in the past.

It is the past of the past.

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

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

What is the tense in this sentence?
My computer has crashed.

1. Past Simple
2. Present Simple
3. Present Perfect
4. Past perfect

What is the tense in this sentence?
I grew up in the Netherlands.

1. Present Simple
2. Past Simple
3. Present Perfect
4. Past Perfect

What is the tense in this sentence?
They had travelled all over the world, before they settled in Ullapool.

1. Present Simple
2. Past Simple
3. Present Perfect
4. Past Perfect

Make a sentence using the past perfect:

eat breakfast
go to school

1. Yesterday I ate my breakfast and after that I went to school.
2. I have eaten breakfast before I went to school yesterday.
3. I had eaten my breakfast before I went to school yesterday.
4. I am having breakfast before I went to school yesterday.

Make a sentence using the past perfect.

finish report
walks in

1. I am finishing my report when she walks into the office.
2. I finished my report after she walked into the office.
3. I have finished my report as she walks into the office.
4. I had just finished my report when she walked into the office.

She (finish) the report before she went home.

1. finished
2. finishes
3. had finished
4. have finished

By the time we arrived, the movie ___ (start).

1. has started
2. had started
3. started
4. strated

He realized that he ___ his keys at home. (leave)

1. had leaved
2. had leaveed
3. had left
4. leave

They ___ dinner before their guests came. (eat)

1. to eat
2. eating
3. had eaten
4. has eaten

She was tired because she ___ all night. (study)

1. had studyed
2. had study
3. had studyd
4. had studied

After they ___ the game, they celebrated. (win)

1. had won
2. had win
3. had wan
4. had wen

We couldn’t enter the house because we ___ the door. (lock)

1. lock
2. locked
3. had locked
4. were locking

Work time + homework

Open your book to page 102, make exercises 27, 28A and 29

When finished we will do a blooket!

How do we make a sentence with the Past Perfect?

Make a sentence using the past perfect.

Make a sentence using the Past Perfect:
celebrate - birthday - present