Task 1 Read the rules of Past Perfect and make up your own examples.
Past Perfect is formed: had + 3rd form of the verb
had gone
hadn’t gone
Past Perfect is used:
for a past action which happened before another past action or before a stated past time
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for a complete action
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as the past equivalent of Present Perfect
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Time expressions used with Past Perfect
before, after, just, yet, already, for, since, ever, never, till/until, when by, by the time, etc.
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Task 2 Complete the sentences using the words in brackets. You will need to add articles, prepositions etc.
1. Louise wasn’t hungry because she ……………………………………………………
(have / big lunch / vegetarian restaurant downtown)
2. I didn’t know who she was because I ……………………………………………….
(not meet / she / before)
3. The police arrived because somebody ………………………………………………..............
(rob / local bank)
4. John couldn’t come to the classes yesterday because he ………………………….......
(break / his leg / skiing accident)
5. Laura didn’t want to go to the cinema because she ………………………………………………………………....
(see / the film / before)
Task 3 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb in the past perfect or the past simple tense.
Unfortunatelly, when we arrrived at Samanta’s birthday party, all the guests …………………………. home so we did not meet anybody. (go)
I didn’t take a map with me so obviously I ……………………………….. in . (get lost)
I was really supprised when I heard that Steven ………………………….. his exams. (fail)
Marvin returned to his home town after 15 years and he could not believe how much it ……………………………(change)
I did not get any reply to my email so I ……………………………….. to phone them. (decide)
I drank too much at the party and that’s why I …………………… this terrible hangover the next day. (have)
I woke up almost half an hour late because I ……………………….. to set my alarm clock. (forget)
Task 4 Put the verbs in brackets into Past Perfect or Past Simple
After Jim and Terry _____________ (finish) their breakfast, they _____________ (take) their bags and _____________ (go) to the river to fish. They _____________ (go) there before and _____________ (catch) some big fish. By 5 o’clock they _____________ (not/get) any fish, so they decided to go home. They _____________ (promise) their mother to bring fish for dinner, so they _____________ ( look) for a shop where they could buy some but the shops _____________ (already/close). When they _____________ (arrive) home, they _____________ (tell) their mother that they _____________ (catch) the biggest fish they _____________ (ever/see) but it v (escape).
Task 5 Read the story and put in the missing verbs from the box.
Became Caught Could Decided Drove Explained Found |
Gave Got Had finished Had left Hitchhiking Know Lost |
Make Make sure Met Misread Missed Persuade Put |
Reached Set out Slept Understand Welcomed Were sent Woke up |
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The Longest Day
This story happened a few years ago when British people could go on a day trip to without a passport. It is about a Mrs and Mrs. Elham who went on a day trip to .
When they _____________ their shopping, the couple _____________ for a walk to see the sights of the town. Unfortunately, they didn’t _____________ much French and couldn’t really _____________ the street signs, so they _____________ completely lost. The French people they _____________ were very kind and eventually they _____________ a lift to the railway station.
As the last ferry _____________, the Elhams _____________ to go to and _____________ their way back to from there. Unfortunately, they _____________ the wrong train and _____________ themselves the next morning – in ! The local police _____________ (the confused passengers on a train for Paris and they _____________ most of the way – all too soundly in fact, for they _____________ their connection and _____________ in Basel in Switzerland!
The obliging Swiss police _____________ the couple directions back to Boulaogne but somehow the y_____________ their way again and ended up _____________ over sixty kilometers to Vesoul in central . A long-distance lorry dirver gave the confused couple a lift to , but when they _____________ the Gare du Nord, their troubles were not over.
‘We _____________ the signs,’ Mrs. Elham _____________ ‘and took the train to in .’
From the Elhams _____________ quickly back to . At the border, a sympathetic gendarme decided to _____________ they got to safely, so he _____________ them all the way there.
As they didn’t have passports, it took twenty-four hours to _____________ the Customs that their unreal story _____________ possibly be true. But at last they were allowed on a ferry and soon the familiar white cliffs of _____________ the Elhams back to .