Past Perfect

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

This week's program

Lesson 1: Past Perfect

Lesson 2: Repeat all tenses

Alquin Listening + reading

Past perfect

Past Simple

verb + ed

happened in the past 

has finished

Present Perfect

have/has verb+ed

started in the past

unfinished/focus on result

Past Continuous

was/were verb+ing

action taking place while sth else happened

Past perfect

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What happened first?

We had already discussed the Seven Wonders of the World before we were asked to write about them.

1. I walked to school yesterday. 

2. I was walking to school when my mum called me. 

3. I wasn't home at 8, because I had walked to school already.

We were driving along the road when we saw a car which ...... (break) down, so we ........ (stop) to help.

1. had broke, stopped
2. broke, had stopped
3. had broken, stopped
4. has broken, stopped

We .... (call) the police as soon as we found that somebody ...... (break) into the office.

1. have called, broke
2. called, had broken
3. had called, had broken
4. called, broke

After they ... (eat) the shellfish, they began to feel sick.

Was Paul at the party when you arrived? No he ....... (go) home.

When I arrived at the cinema, the film .... (start already).

Sorry I'm late. The car ........ (break) down on my way here.

The house was very quiet when I got home. Everybody ..... (go) to bed.

She had lived in China before she ... (move) to Thailand.

She ... (sound) excited because she ...(join) a badminton club.

1. sounded, joined
2. sounded, had joined
3. had sounded, joined
4. had sounded, had joined

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Check if you get all grammar tenses

We have worked really hard.

1. Present perfect
2. Present perfect continous
3. Past perfect
4. Past perfect continuous

I am walking to school.

1. present perfect
2. past perfect
3. past simple
4. present continuous

My cat died last week.

1. past perfect
2. past simple
3. present simple
4. present perfect

When I woke up this morning, I had slept for 8 hours

1. Past simple
2. Past continuous
3. Past perfect
4. Past perfect continous

I have known him all my life.

1. past simple
2. present simple
3. present perfect
4. past perfect

past simple or present perfect?

I ... (walk) to school yesterday.

1. walked
2. have walked
3. has walked
4. had walked

The people had not been warned by the coastguards.

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

John and Nelson ... (work) here for three years now.

1. worked
2. have worked
3. has worked
4. had worked

We use the ______ for something that always or regularly happens.

1. Present simple
2. Present continuous
3. Past simple
4. Past continuous

In welke zin staat de past continuous?

1. My parents went out for dinner.
2. They love to go out.
3. My father was wearing a suit and tie.
4. My mother looked lovely too.

We use the ______ for something that is happening now.

1. present simple
2. present continuous
3. past simple
4. past continuous

My father ... (drive) home, he can be here any minute.

1. drives
2. is driving
3. will drive

If you don’t start working harder, you ..... repeat the course next year.

1. will
2. will be having to
3. will have to
4. are going to

wanneer gebruik je de past continuous?

1. als iets aan de gang is
2. als iets gister is gebeurd
3. als iets aan de gang was
4. als je wil zeggen wat je doet

Translate: Carnaval begint volgende week vrijdag.

1. Carnival is starting next week Friday.
2. Carnival starts next week Friday.
3. Carnival is going to start next week Friday.
4. Carnival started next week Friday.

She was playing the piano.

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

I ............... (try) to repair my bike when he offered to help me.

1. tried
2. am trying
3. have tried
4. was trying

She.......................her grandmother tomorrow.

1. will visit
2. visits
3. shall visit
4. is going to visit