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REDA EL AZGHARI OMAR IBN AL KHATTAB HIGH SCHOOL

UNIT FORMAL, NON-FORMAL AND INFORMAL EDUCATION

SUBJECT Grammar
LESSON The Past Perfect
DURATION 120 min
LEVEL 2BSH
MATERIALS Textbooks, worksheets, board and notebooks

OBJECTIVES
1. Students would review the past simple tense.
2. Students should be able to use the past perfect tense correctly.

PRESENTATION 10 min
CLASS
 Students read the model sentences and try to complete the chart.

She had studied in Tetouan before she moved to Ouedlaou.

After she had taken literacy classes, she became an educated woman.
We started the lesson as soon as we had got into the classroom.
Verbs: had studied / moved / had taken / became / started / had got
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Time: Past Board
Order of actions: Past perfect happened first, then past simple
Tense: Past perfect vs Past simple
Structure: [had + v3] / [v2]

 Students are given some random verbs as a drilling activity to review the past participle form.

CLASS
 Students check their comprehension by choosing the correct forms of the verbs in a new model
2 sentence.
Board
My friend (wanted / had wanted) to buy a new shirt with the money his father (gave / had given) him.
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PRACTICE 95 min
PAIR
 Students match the parts to make correct sentences.
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1-e 2-d 3-b 4-c a WS (A5)

PAIR
 Students put the verbs into the correct tense (skipping sentence N°6).

2 1. went / had finished 5. had played / went

2. turned / had washed 6. had never read / moved WS (A6)
3. had already fed / went 7. got / had revised
4. got / had already started 8. had prepared / came
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PAIR
 Students rewrite the sentences using ‘after’ and ‘before’.
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After: [had finished/went] [had finished/turned off] [had revised/knocked] [had become/set up] [had launched/enrolled] TB (P45 – A5)
Before: opposite of the above
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 PAIR
 Students are introduced to the negative and interrogative forms, then they are asked to turn the
previous sentences into both forms.
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My friend hadn’t prepared well for the test, that’s why he got a bad mark. Board
Had you done your homework before I called you?
Where had you been when I came?
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PAIR
 Students differentiate between the past perfect simple and continuous.

1. had been washing

5 2. had given
3. had waited
WS (A6)
4. had been watching
5. had already gone
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PRODUCTION 10 min
PAIR
 Students write sentences of their own using the past perfect simple and continuous in contrast
1 with the past simple. NB
 Students act out their productions.

FOLLOW-UP 05 min
HOMEWORK
1  Students copy the notes from the board. NB
 Students conjugate the verbs either in the past simple or perfect. TB (P44 – A4)