Year 4 - Past Perfect

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

MH4 - December 23

Unit 2.4 / 2.5

Class work:

Lesson 1: Reading practice - individually

Lesson 2: Review grammar: past perfect

Test week:

Test Unit 2: 

All vocab, expressions, grammar (except used to)   

Reading test: bring a dictionary!                

Lesson 1: Reading

Find the CE Unit online

Work on §1: Computer Games & §2: Beatles and the Bard

Alternatively, work on text 4 of the handout ('Spare the rod')

Lesson 2: Past Perfect

Before I knew it, I had already prepared a LessonUp about this!

Today

- What is the past perfect?

- When do you use the past perfect?

- When do you use the past simple vs. the past perfect?

Past Perfect

Form: Had + voltooid deelwoord (ww+ed/3e rij oww's)

I had slept.

She had worked.

Past Perfect

Use: something happened before something else in the past.

• I apologised because I had left my money at home.
• I watched TV after I had done my homework
• When I started working at that supermarket, I had worked in a restaurant for two years.

Timeline

After he had opened the safe, the thief took the jewels

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Let's practise

Fill the correct form of the verbs into the gaps. Use the past perfect or the past simple.

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

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

The lights went off because we _____ (not pay) the electricity bill.

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

John ____ (finish) his homework before he ____ (meet) up with his friends.

Please do ...

The past simple / past perfect exercises:

§2.4: ex 13

§2.5: exs 12 & 13