PAST PERFECT

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 2

Past Perfect

Voltooid verleden tijd

What tenses can we use to indicate the past?

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

present perfect: voltooide tijd

Past perfect:  voltooide verleden tijd 

past simple: verleden tijd 

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.

Let's tell a story...

Once upon a time there was an acrobat.

He had always been an acrobat for as long as he could remember. There was nothing else he liked to do more than swinging on the trapeze or jumping from great hights.

One day. . . 

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.

Make a sentence using the past perfect.

Practise:

Write a (Christmas) story using the past tenses. 

- Past Simple

- Past Perfect

Extra challenge:

- Past Perfect Continuous

Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous

Past Perfect : something happened in the past BEFORE something else happened in the past.

had + past participle

Past Perfect Continuous : something happened in the past WHILE something else also happened in the past. 

was/were + verb + - ing

Examples:

Past Perfect : I had cleaned the house before my mother came home.

Past Perfect Continuous : I was cleaning the house when my mother came home. 

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

Make a sentence using the Past Perfect Continuous.
to drive - accicent - happen