This lesson contains 20 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.
Lesson duration is: 30 min
Items in this lesson
Past Perfect
Slide 1 - Slide
Past Perfect
Warming -up
Listen to the story and fill in the worksheet
Slide 2 - Slide
Slide 3 - Video
Worksheet Podcast
1. was walking 2. happened 3. had had ('d had) 4. had just had 5. sat 6. closed 7. fell 8. had moved 9. was blowing
10. hooted
11. heard 12. looked 13. was coming 14. moving 15. was stretching 16. had never been 17. was coming 18. jumped 19. was wearing 20. pointed 21. had never heard
22. was trying 23. had gone
24. had happened
Slide 4 - Slide
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.
Slide 5 - Slide
Grammar Note
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?
Be ready to show your notes at the end of the lesson.
Slide 6 - Slide
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.
Slide 7 - Slide
How does it work?
Past Perfect - had + past participle
something happened in the past before something else happened in the past.
Slide 8 - Slide
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.
Slide 9 - Slide
I had always walked home until I bought my first car.
Slide 10 - Slide
I had been stuck in the lift for hours when a fireman finally came and rescued me.
Slide 11 - Slide
What is the tense in this sentence? My computer has crashed.
A
Past Simple
B
Present Simple
C
Present Perfect
D
Past perfect
Slide 12 - 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 13 - Quiz
What is the tense in this sentence? They had travelled all over the world, before they settled in Ullapool.
A
Present Simple
B
Past Simple
C
Present Perfect
D
Past Perfect
Slide 14 - Quiz
Make a sentence using the past perfect:
eat breakfast go to school
A
Yesterday I ate my breakfast and after that I went to school.
B
I have eaten breakfast before I went to school yesterday.
C
I had eaten my breakfast before I went to school yesterday.
D
I am having breakfast before I went to school yesterday.
Slide 15 - Quiz
Make a sentence using the past perfect.
finish report walks in
A
I am finishing my report when she walks into the office.
B
I finished my report after she walked into the office.
C
I have finished my report as she walks into the office.
D
I had just finished my report when she walked into the office.
Slide 16 - Quiz
How do we make a sentence with the Past Perfect?
Slide 17 - Open question
Make a sentence using the past perfect.
Slide 18 - Open question
Make a sentence using the Past Perfect: celebrate - birthday - present