Past perfect/Past simple

Name ___________________________________________________ No. _______ Class: _________ Date ___________

1. Match the sentences on the left with their answers on the right.
a. Why did you decide to be part of
volunteer.com?
b. Why were you so sad yesterday?
c. Where did you put my laptop?
d. You didn’t join the Zoom meeting
yesterday.
e. Didn’t you have dinner at that Mexican
restaurant last night?
1. Back where I had found it before I used
it.
2. I had lost my username and password,
but now I’ve got them.
3. I realised I had spent too much time on
myself.
4. It had closed down after all.
5. My best friend had made some
unpleasant remarks.

2. Complete the sentences with the verbs in the past simple or past perfect.
a. Mikhail ________________ (pass) the casting to get the part, because he ________________ (practise)
a lot in the weeks before.
b. I ________________ (never go) out with a girl before, so I ________________ (feel) very nervous on
my first date.
c. Leni ________________ (be) really sad because no one ________________ (answer) her application.
d. We ________________ (stay) at home last night because we ________________ (arrange) to binge watch
Netflix together.
e. Thierry ________________ (feel) much better after he ________________ (tell) his parents about his
decision.

3. Complete the text with the missing verbs in the past simple and past perfect. Sometimes
both can be used.
Susan is a 16-year-old teen who a.________________ (decide)
she b.________________ (want) to make a difference after
she c.________________ (watch) a report on local TV on the
living conditions of homeless people in her city. She
d.________________ (not know) much about the issue before
she e.________________ (witness) the harsh reality in that
report. A few weeks later she f.________________ (launch) a
fundraising campaign because she g.________________ (see)
how successful these could be. Before she
h.________________ (present) the idea online, though, she
i.________________ (do) her research to get some statistical data on the homeless population. Then
she j.________________ (organise) all the information she k.________________ (gather) before and
l.________________ (publish) her well-documented fundraising project. As she m.________________
(plan) it so carefully, the campaign n.________________ (end) up gathering around £4,000 in a few
weeks and she was really proud to be able to make a difference in some homeless people’s lives.

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