SESSION 02

Goals: To use correctly past perfect

 TALKING ABOUT THE PAST

PAST SIMPLE

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 Getting started
We use the Past Perfect to describe an event completed in the past, which is
connected to another point in time that has also happened
CONTRACTIONS
We make past perfect like this:
(+) subject + had + past participle + complement.
(-) subject + had not/hadn’t + past participle + complement.
(?) Had + subject + past participle + complement?

Infinitive Past form Past

participle • I had never _______ my leg before.
cook cooked cooked • Mary ______ been to Brazil twice when we got
be Was/were been married.
break broke broken • We hadn’t ________ this recipe before.
eat ate eaten
• ____ you ever eaten sushi before we came to this
place?
 Think about some activities you had done
before you had dinner on Christmas Day.
TALKING ABOUT THE PAST
I had done shopping.
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PAST SIMPLE _________________________________
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Before I had dinner on Christmas Day, _________________________________
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 Verbs in Past Participle
Base Form | Simple Past | Past Participle

TALKING
Bring = Brought
ABOUT THE PAST
Fly = Flew = Flown
Buy = Bought Know = Knew = Known
Grow = Grew = Grown
Fight = Fought
Teach = Taught
PAST SIMPLE
Swim = Swam = Swum Go = Went = Gone
Have = Had
Sing = Sang = Sung See = Saw = Seen
Run = Ran = Run Tell = Told = Told
Drink = Drank = Drunk Say = Said = Said
Eat = Ate = Eaten

Forget = Forgot = Forgotten

Get = Got = Gotten

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  John’s car is dirty.
 He washes the car.

had washed
He __________(wash)the car
when I arrived
 Marc is having lunch.

He __________ (have) lunch when his mom

called him..

 The children’s room is dirty.

 They clean their room.

The children ______________ (clean)

their room then the TV show started.
  We bought the house in 2000.
 We still live in the neighborhood.

We _____________ (live) here _____ 15 years when we sold it.

We _____________ (have) great moments here_____ 2000 before it was demolished
 I had listened to music…..

We haden’t gone shopping…

 Sara Luis

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get married See a ghost Take a shower Participate in a race Paint their house

Miguel John

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Have an accident Bake a cake Play a football match
 A: Hello __________, What had you done before the party started?
B: Hi __________, before before the party started, I had studied for my test.
Speaking A: So, why was your dad angry?
time! B: He was angry because I hadn’t cleaned my room
A: I see. That’s why I had done my homework and my brother had washed the dishes
before the party started, so my parents weren’t upset.
B: I'll keep it in mind for the next time.
 Speaking
time!

A: Hello __________, What had you done before the party started?
B: Hi __________, before the party started, I had ________________________.
A: So, why was your dad angry?
B: He was angry because I hadn’t __________________________.
A: I see. That’s why I had ______________and my brother had
___________________before the party started, so my parents weren’t upset.
B: I'll keep it in mind for the next time.