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1. INFORMACIÓN BÁSICA
PROGRAM : PROGRAM: NRC:
LEVEL: INGLES 1030 WORKSHOP No.: 6

TEACHER: Oscar John Osorio Gallego DELIVERY DATE: 07/05/2021

NAMES AND
LINA MARIA MORENO MARTINEZ ID No. 728327
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2. REFERENTE TEMATICO DE APRENDIZAJE
TEMA: WHAT IS THE PAST PERFECT?

I - THE PAST PERFECT

1- The past perfect, also called the pluperfect, is a verb tense used to talk about
actions that were completed before some point in the past.

We were shocked to discover that someone had graffitied “Tootles was here” on our front door. We were
relieved that Tootles had used washable paint.

The past perfect tense is for talking about something that happened before something else. Imagine

waking up one morning and stepping outside to grab the newspaper. On your way back in, you notice a

mysterious message scrawled across your front door: Tootles was here. When you’re telling this story to

your friends later, how would you describe this moment? You might say something like:

I turned back to the house and saw that some someone named Tootles had defaced my front door!
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II - GET GRAMMARLY
1- In addition to feeling indignant on your behalf, your friends will also be able to understand that Tootles
graffitied the door at some point in the past before the moment this morning when you saw his handiwork,
because you used the past perfect tense to describe the misdeed.

2- USING THE PAST PERFECT IN SHORT FILMS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3NnmViTsX8

3- THE GAME SHOW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05HXVE05vjg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJC5dd1ODBQ

III- ACCORDING TO THE VIDEOS, NOW WRITE ABOUT ITS CONTENT USING THE PAST
PERFECT:
In the first video they had showed us how they had used past perfect in some movies and TV shows. They
had used the tense for actions that happened before another action and we can also see that they had
used a lot “had been”. In the second video they had showed a contest between two participants. The
participants compete by correcting some mistakes in sentences and they use a lot of past perfect in those
corrections.
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PAST PERFECT FORMULA: The formula for the past perfect tense is had + [past participle]. It
doesn’t matter if the subject is singular or plural; the formula doesn’t change.

1- Examples – Past Perfect Simple

 After Sofie had finished her work, she went to lunch.

 I washed the floor when the painter had gone.
 Harold had known about it for a while.
 I didn't say anything until she had finished talking.
 After she had moved out, I found her notes.
 Before I knew it, she had run out the door.

2- PAY ATTENTION TO THE NEXT VIDEOS USING THE PAST PERFECT: __________________
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3HRUtZCAa4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGvDiycGoOg

III- ACCORDING TO THE VIDEOS, USING THE PRESENT PERFECT AND THE PAST PERFECT,
WRITE ABOUT AN EXPERIENCE FROM YOUR VACATION TIME -DON’T FORGET TO INCLUDE
THE NEW LEARNED VOCABULARY: I had gone to Canada when my mom came home from her trip in
Argentina. I really enjoyed that trip because I did a lot of things. I had never been to Canada before that
time and a lot of interesting things happened there. I got lost in a bus because I had taken the wrong
route. I got stomachache because I had tried a food from someone I didn’t know. Overall. It was the best
trip I have had.
IV- WHEN TO USE THE PAST PERFECT: So what’s the difference between past perfect
and simple past? When you’re talking about some point in the past and want to reference an
event that happened even earlier, using the past perfect allows you to convey the sequence of
the events. It’s also clearer and more specific. Consider the difference between these two
sentences:

EX: -We were relieved that Tootles used washable paint. We were relieved that Tootles had
used washable paint.

2- It’s a subtle difference, but the first sentence doesn’t tie Tootles’s act of using washable paint to any
particular moment in time; readers might interpret it as “We were relieved that Tootles was in the habit of
using washable paint.” In the second sentence, the past perfect makes it clear that you’re talking about a
specific instance of using washable paint.

3- Another time to use the past perfect is when you are expressing a condition and a result:
If I had woken up earlier this morning, I would have caught Tootles red-handed.

4- The past perfect is used in the part of the sentence that explains the condition (the if-clause).
Most often, the reason to write a verb in the past perfect tense is to show that it happened before other
actions in the same sentence that are described by verbs in the simple past tense. Writing an entire
paragraph with every verb in the past perfect tense is unusual.

V- WHEN NOT TO USE THE PAST PERFECT: Don’t use the past perfect when you’re not
trying to convey some sequence of events. If your friends asked what you did after you
discovered the graffiti, they would be confused if you said:
I had cleaned it off the door.
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They’d likely be wondering what happened next because using the past perfect implies that your action of cleaning
the door occurred before something else happened, but you don’t say what that something else is.

3- The “something else” doesn’t always have to be explicitly mentioned, but context needs to make it clear.
In this case there’s no context, so the past perfect doesn’t make sense.

VI – HOW TO MAKE THE PAST PERFECT NEGATIVE: Making the past perfect negative
is simple! Just insert not between had and [past participle].
We looked for witnesses, but the neighbors had not seen Tootles in the act. If Tootles had not
included his own name in the message, we would have no idea who was behind it.

VII - HOW TO ASK A QUESTION WITH THE PAST PERFECT ? : The formula for asking a question
in the past perfect tense is had + [subject] + [past participle].
Had Tootles caused trouble in other neighborhoods before he struck ours?

EXAMPLES: Negative sentences in the Past Perfect – irregular verbs

 I had not gone home. - You had not gone home. - He had not gone home.
 She had not gone home. - It had not gone home. - We had not gone home.
 You had not gone home. - They had not gone home.

VIII- COMMON REGULAR VERBS IN THE PAST PERFECT TENSE -NOTICE: *The past participle of “to get” is
“gotten” in American English. In British English, the past participle is “got.” 

IX- COMMON IRREGULAR VERBS IN THE PAST PERFECT TENSE

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X- CHANGING SENTENCES FROM PRESENT PERFECT INTO PAST PERFECT: As we studied

before, the Present Perfect Tense says that an action was completed at a time before the present, and
the results or consequences of the action are relevant now. ... The Past Perfect Tense says that an
action was completed at a time before another action happened in the past.
The past perfect is very similar to the present perfect because the event also started in the past. However,
the difference between the events is that the past perfect event also ended in the past. This can be used
with a specified time. For example, “I had studied in China last year”. This also implies the event happened
a long time ago.

Simple Examples:
* Sofie has already finished her work, she is going to lunch.
* Sofie had finished her work, so she went to lunch.
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wash the floor when the painter has gone. *I washed the floor when the painter had gone.
* Harold has known about it for a while. * Harold had known about it for a while.

XI- NOW CHECK THE NEXT VIDEO AND CHANGE FIFTEEN SENTENCES FROM PRESENT
PERFECT INTO PAST PERFECT: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=givOTZa9TQY
1. He hadn’t done the shopping.
2. He had left some milk.
3. He hadn’t eaten all the biscuits.
4. He had opened a bottle of lemonade.
5. He had got some nuts.
6. You had eaten my biscuits.
7. I hadn’t touched your biscuits.
8. Someone had eaten them.
9. Someone had drunk the milk too.
10. I hadn’t eaten my nuts.
11. I had opened a bottle of lemonade.
12. She had left some milk.
13. He hadn’t eaten them.
14. We hadn’t touched your biscuits.
15.She hadn’t touched your biscuits.

APPLYING THE PAST PERFECT AFFIRMATIVE, NEGATIVE AND INTERROGATIVE TO WRITING:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvhb40-Ap94

XI- MAKE AN APOLOGISE OF THE NEXT PAST PERFECT TENSE VIDEO – WRITE THE IDEAS AND MAKE AN
AUDIO SAYING THE CONTENT IN TWO MINUTES. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyvGJrB7WNM

In the video they explain the past perfect tense in 6 minutes. The video starts by introducing the people
talking, Catherine and Rob and they introduce the topic they are going to talk about by explaining that the
perfect tense is used when we want to talk about things that happened at different times in the past. Then,
they introduce Harry who says the first example of the tense. After the example, they explain that that
exact example can be said in past simple, and they show how they do it. Then, they explain that they can
also change the order of events in the sentences and use the past perfect to show which event happened
first.

Continuing the video, they show another example said by Rob. They explain in that example that they have
two past events and explain which happened first. They also say that past perfect can sometimes be
difficult to hear, which is something I agree. This is because people don’t always say “I had”, but they
change it to “I’d”. Then, they show another example and explain the action that happened first. They
recommend to do this in a quiz. At the end of the video they show some other examples and one of the
examples has three events. It was really challenging to think which one was the one that had happened
first. To conclude they explain that a mistake people make is using past perfect too much. I really liked the
video, it was really helpful.