PAST PERFECT

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 2

Past Perfect VS Present Perfect

What tenses can we use to indicate the past?

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

What tenses can we use to indicate the present?

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.

When do you use Present  Perfect?

-  to indicate a link between the present and the past

- When the time period referred to has not finished

It is the past with a result in present

have\has + part participle

I have lost my keys

Past Perfect and Present Perfect

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

had + past participle

Present  Perfect : something happened in the past but we have a result  in present

Have|has + past participle

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. 

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.

How do we make a sentence with the Past Perfect?

Make a sentence using the past perfect.

Make a sentence using the Present Perfect:
celebrate - birthday

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

Practise:

Write a story using the past and present perfect tenses. 

- Present Perfect

- Past Perfect

Extra challenge:

- Past Simple