PAST PERFECT

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 2

Today's grammar Topic

Past Perfect

Lesson Goal

After this lesson, you know how to create the past perfect in a sentence, and you are able to apply this in a sentence.

What tenses can we use to indicate the past?

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

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.

How does it work?

Past Perfect        -           had + past participle

something happened in the past before something else happened in the past.

 

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.

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.

Past Simple and Past Perfect in 1 sentence?

In that case, the action that takes the longest time-> Past Perfect

...the action that takes the shortest time-> Past Simple

What is the tense in this sentence?
My computer has 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
walks in

1. I am finishing my report when she walks into the office.
2. I finished my report after she walked into the office.
3. I have finished my report as she walks into the office.
4. I had just finished my report when she walked into the office.

Write a sentence using the past perfect.

Write another sentence with 1 long action and 1 short action using the past simple and past perfect

padlet.com

Go to page 83 of your book and do exercise 13 + page 87 exercise 12. When you're done, Read text 1 on page 102 and do questions 1-9