Past perfect vs past simple

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

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Lesson plan

1. Grammar time!
2. Practise
3. DIY 

Past perfect

It happened last August at the airport. A few weeks before, a group of us had decided to go to Greece together for a holiday. We were waiting in the queue at passport control when suddenly I realized that I had forgotten my passport. It was quite a shock. I hurried to a phone and rang my parents. They were working in the garden, but luckily my mother heard the phone. They found the passport and immediately drove to the airport with it.

I met them at the information desk. We had no time to talk but I had said goodbye to them earlier that morning. I ran all the way to the plane and, luckily, I had made it just in time.

What do the bolded words have in common?

Basics

• Past perfect (simple) = voltooid verleden tijd
   
• I had done my homework before my parents were home
• She had left the party before it kicked off

• had + past participle (voltooid deelwoord)
• Past participle = -ed OR 3rd row
  
  
• Signaalwoorden
  
• after, before, because, right after, as soon as, when, in 2012, etc.
• E.g. had already completed

But why?

• For events that happened before another event/moment in the past
  
  
• Look at the timeline
• Which event came
  first?

• Past perfect is often used together with the past simple
• How do we create that one?
• Verb +-ed OR 2nd row

ANQ

• Affirmative
• They had walked the dog before it started to rain
• Negative 
• They hadn't walked the dog before it started to rain 
• Question
• Had they walked the dog before it started to rain?

Timelines

Tip!

• Always ask which action came first!
• Longest ago = past perfect
• Most recent = past simple

The storm destroyed the sandcastle that we _____ (build).

1. had built
2. have built
3. had builded
4. have builded

He ______ (not / be)
to Cape Town before 1997.

1. wasn't been
2. has not been
3. had not been
4. had been

_______ (he / phone)
Angie before he went to see her in London?

1. Has he phoned
2. Had he phoned
3. He had phoned
4. Phoned he had

She _____ (to watch) a video after the children ____ (to go) to bed.

1. had watched + went
2. had watched + had gone
3. watched + went
4. watched + had gone

When she _____ (to arrive) the match
already ____ (to start).

1. had arrived + started
2. had arrived + had started
3. arrived + started
4. arrived + had started

After Fred ____ (to spend) his holiday in Italy he _____ (to want) to learn Italian.

1. had spent + wanted
2. had spent + had wanted
3. spent + wanted
4. spent + had wanted

She _____ (not / ride)
a horse before that day.
Long version!

When she went out to play, she _____ (do / already) her homework.

My brother ate all of the cake that our mum _____ (make).

After the group ____ (to visit) London, they ____ (to fly) to Edinburgh
Add a "+"!

Last year Juan ____
(pass) all his exams.

_____ (Jill / to phone) Dad at work before she _____ (to leave) for her trip?
Add a "+"!

I ____ (to be) very tired because I ____ (to study) too much.
Add a "+"!

DIY 

Do exercises 7+8+9+10

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