Cambridge Unit 3: Past perfect simple & continuous

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Cambridge Unit 3: 

Past perfect simple & continuous

Answers ex. 3

1. D
2. A
3. B
4. D
5. C
6. A
7. C
8. B
9. D
10. A 

How many answers were correct?

I didn't do my homework

10 answers

7-9 answers

Less than 7

Past perfect simple

Put in the past perfect simple:
I ... (work) in a supermarket before I became a teacher.

Past perfect continuous

Put in the past perfect continuous:
I ... (work) in the supermarket for 7 years before I became a teacher.

Past perfect simple

- To describe something which happened before a single event in the past.

Before I moved to Rotterdam I had lived in Dordrecht.

Past perfect continuous

- To describe something which happened before a single event in the past --> Focuses on the duration

Before I moved to Rotterdam, I had been living in Dordrecht for 10 years.

We were furious because we ... for over 5 hours before the plane got permission to take off.

1. had waited
2. had been waiting

He ... for over a year in all his exams before one of the teachers finally found evidence to prove it.

1. had cheated
2. had been cheating

The hurricane completely destroyed the cottage that they ... only a year earlier.

1. had built
2. had been building

We referred to the documents that the professor ... (hand) to us at the start of the lecture.

When they got home, they discovered that their babysitter ... (already - put) their toddler to bed.

She ... (ride) her pony all afternoon when we glimpsed her briefly as she went into the woods.

Get to work

Book page 36

Do: Ex. 3, 4, 5, 6

Exercise 3

1. had eaten
2. had never been
3. arrived                           had lost
4. started
5. recognised                  had never spoken
6. had damaged

Exercise 4

1. B
2. past perfect continuous 

Exercise 5

1. had been living
2. had been walking
3. had already finished
4. had only been speaking
5. had walked 

Exercise 6

1. have --> had
2. forgot --> had forgotten
3. didn't go --> hadn't gone
4. had bought --> bought                                                                  always wanted --> had always wanted 
5. just finished --> had just finished
6. have --> had