PAST PERFECT

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Past Perfect

Past Perfect

Warming -up

Listen to the story and fill in the worksheet

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?

Be ready to show your notes at the end of the lesson.

example sentences:

1. Andrew had done the test before, so he found it very easy.

2. I didn’t laugh at the joke because I had heard it before.

3. We left the restaurant when we had finished dinner.

4. When I found my wallet, I discovered that somebody had taken all the money from it.

How does it work?

Present Simple - I work hard every day. (she/he/it works)

Past Simple - I lost my keys yesterday.

Past Perfect - They had left before the show ended.

How does it work?

Past Perfect        -           had + voltooid deelwoord

Een gebeurtenis in de verleden tijd, vòòr een andere gebeurtenis in de verleden tijd.

 

When do you use Past Perfect?

- Als je wilt vertellen dat iets in de verleden tijd gebeurde, vòòrdat er nog iets anders gebeurde. 

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 had 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
teacher walk in

How do we make a sentence with the Past Perfect?

Make a sentence using the past perfect.

Homework 

Do exercise 7 and 8 in your workbook

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