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English – Grade 7
Self-Learning Module
Module: Quarter 1 – Module 4- Using the Past and Past Perfect Tenses correctly in
Varied Context
First Edition, 2020

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Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the English 7 Self-Learning Module on Using the Past

and Past Perfect Tenses Correctly!

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by

educators both from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher or
facilitator in helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12
Curriculum while overcoming their personal, social, and economic constraints
in schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and
independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this
also aims to help learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking
into consideration their needs and circumstances.

As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them
to manage their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and
assist the learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

For the learner:

Welcome to the English 7 Self-Learning Module on Using the Past Perfect

Tense Correctly!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time.
You will be enabled to process the contents of the learning resource while being
an active learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

What I Need to This will give you an idea of the skills or

Know competencies you are expected to learn in
the module.

What I Know This part includes an activity that aims to

check what you already know about the
lesson to take. If you get all the answers

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 correct (100%), you may decide to skip
this module.

What’s In This is a brief drill or review to help you

link the current lesson with the previous
one.

What’s New In this portion, the new lesson will be

introduced to you in various ways; a
story, a song, a poem, a problem opener,
an activity or a situation.

What is It This section provides a brief discussion of

the lesson. This aims to help you discover
and understand new concepts and skills.

What’s More This comprises activities for independent

practice to solidify your understanding
and skills of the topic. You may check the
answers to the exercises using the
Answer Key at the end of the module.
What I Have This includes questions or blank
Learned sentence/paragraph to be filled in to
process what you learned from the
lesson.

What I Can Do This section provides an activity which

will help you transfer your new
knowledge or skill into real life situations
or concerns.

Assessment This is a task which aims to evaluate your

level of mastery in achieving the learning
competency.
Additional In this portion, another activity will be
Activities
given to you to enrich your knowledge or
skill of the lesson learned.

Answer Key This contains answers to all activities in

the module.

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 What I Need to Know

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. Determine the verbs in the past perfect tense

2. Identify the structure of the past perfect tense
3. Use the past perfect tense correctly in varied context

What I Know

Directions: Choose the letter of the correct word or group of words to complete
the sentence using the past and past perfect tenses. Write the answer in your
activity notebook.

1. We__________finished eating dinner.

a. had not b. not had c. dont’ d. has not

2. Had they _________ to her before?

a. spoke b. spoken c. spoked d. speak

3. You ___________ not leave yet.

a. would b. will c. would had d. must

4. I had never ________ her before.

a. see b. saw c. seen d. sees

5. We arrived at 8:05, but the train _____ already left.

a. has b. have c. had d. was

6. Sarah thought she ______ to that zoo before.

a. has been b. have been c. had been d. had go

7. Nobody explained why the project __________ on time.

a. hadn’t been completed b. had not completed c. hasn’t complete

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8. He ________us that the item had been shipped.
a. told b. say c. asked d. said

9. Dad explained ________ his job due to stress.

a. why he quitted b. that he had quit c. that he’d quite d. to quitted

10. Where _______ the security guard gone?

a. had b. have c. did d. has

11. I lost the key that he _____to me.

a. gives b. had given c. have give d. give
12. I went downstairs because I ____ a noise.
a. had heard b. hear c. have hear d. heard

13. She told me that she ______ a ghost.

a. sew b. see c. had seen d. sees

14. She told me that she ____ a lot before the exam.
a. study b. had studied c. have study d. studies

15. When I arrived at the garden, the plants ______already.

a. dry. b. had dried c. having dried d. drying

What’s In

In your previous lesson, you learn how to construct a sentence using the
simple past tense. The simple past tense indicates that the action is done in
the past. The verbs at the tip of the stars are all in the simple past form.

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saw swam

drank went

was

PAST (SIMPLE PAST) PRESENT FUTURE

Can you see the difference between the sentences?

1. She went home early 2. She had gone home early when
yesterday. her father arrived.

The first sentence is written in the simple past while the second is in the
past perfect tense. In the first sentence an action is done in the past while in
the second, two actions are being described in the past.

What’s New

Activity 1. It’s time to play word board game! All you need to do is get a dice
or make an improvise dice and simply throw it on the board game with phrases

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and make at least two sentences using the phrase on the box it land. Write
your sentences in a separate sheet of paper.

Let’s Start the game!

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 What is It?
Past Perfect Tense Defined:
Do you know that PAST PERFECT TENSE is a sentence that talks about
the completed action before another action in the past? This means that there was an
action that happened before another action in the past. Look at the diagram.

First action Last Action

Past Present Future

Analyze the diagram:

had eaten breakfast went to school

First action

(Completed) Last Action

Past Present Future

Which action happened first? How about the second? Can you combine
these actions to make a past perfect tense?
You see there were two actions done in the past. But the first action an
auxiliary verb “HAD”. The reason why is that Past Perfect Tenses use HAD
followed by a participle form of the verb.
Now let us use the suggested actions into a sentence. For example, your
brother did these actions. How would you use the actions above into a past
perfect tense sentence?
We may use these actions into a sentence as,
1. My brother had eaten breakfast before he went to school.
Or,
2. My brother went home after he had eaten breakfast.

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 We connect these actions in the past by using the words before and after. If
you use the word “BEFORE” to connect the two actions, the first action
completed (Had + Participle) will be placed in the beginning of the sentence.
While the word “AFTER” can be used to connect two actions with the (HAD +
PARTICIPLE) in the ending of the sentence.

Look at the examples below. Can you identify the sentences that belong to
the past perfect tense?

1. He has written his homework already.

2. They had cleaned the house before they played computer games.
3. He threw the ball to his team mate after he had dribbled it many times.
4. They ate pizza because they were hungry.
Very Good! The sentences 2 and 3 belong to the Past Perfect Tenses.
Remember, always use the participle form of the verb after the auxiliary verb
“HAD” to form the past perfect tense.

What’s More

Activity 1.1 Try to make the verbs into past perfect.

Example: (eat) = had eaten (be) = had been (have) = had had

1. (drop) = _________________
2. (show) =_________________
3. (write) = _________________
4. (forgive) = ________________
5. (go) = _________________
6. (leave)= __________________
7. (see) = __________________
8. (do) =__________________
9. (feel) = __________________
10. (come)=_______________

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Activity 1.2: Try to correct the sentences using the past
perfect tense.

Example: Before I (watched) TV, I (cooked) dinner. (watched, cooked)

Answer: Before I watched TV, I had cooked dinner.

1. My father (unloaded) the cart before he (unhitched) the carabao.

2. After I (fixed) the motorcycle, I (washed) it.
3. When my mother (arrived), I (finished) answering my assignments.
4. They (ate) mango after they (bought) it at the market.
5. We (played) basketball before we (had) dinner.
6. When we (reached) the school the bell already (rung)
7. The Roro Bus (left) when I (reached) the waiting shed.
8. Mother (cooked) dinner before I (got) home.
9. I (printed) the reports before he (gave) me the updates.
10. Mary Shemm (planted) to go to the beach but covid 19 (changed) her
plan.

What I Have Learned

1. The past perfect tense is used if an action completed is followed by another

action in the past.
2. In order to form a past perfect tense, the auxiliary verb “HAD” followed by
a participle form of the verb is used.
3. The words “before” and “after” are used to connect two past actions.
4. The auxiliary verb “HAD” is used to indicate the first completed action in
the past.
5. The simple past of the verb is used to indicate the last action in the past.

Now, complete the sentences below.

1. I went home after I had ________________________.

2. She had eaten dinner before she ___________________________.
3. When I arrived home, my father ________________________.
4. He had cooked breakfast before he ______________________.
5. After I __________________________, I watered the plants.

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 What I Can Do

Can you write your own past perfect tense using the words below? The first one is done
for you.
1. (run) (jump)
Before I ran towards the woods, I had jumped over the fence.
After I had jumped over the fence, I ran towards the woods.
2. (write) (play)
_________________________________________________________________________
3. (climb) (bathe)
_________________________________________________________________________
4. (drink)(eat)
_________________________________________________________________________
5. (plow) (plant)
_______________________________________________________________________

Assessment

Complete the following sentences using the past perfect tense form of the
verbs in parenthesis. Write your answer on the space provided.

1. She_____________ (went) home after she had taken her lunch.

2. The Palawanos ____________ (live) in Palawan long before the Spaniards
arrived.
3. Oliver ___________(take) a cup of coffee before he came to our table.
4. I _____________(buy) a new cellphone before I went to Aborlan

5. My Nanay didn't turn off the light until I____________(finish) my modules.

6. Shailini _____ (do) the gardening before it started raining.

7. Gisha _____ (drive) 10 kilometers by the time she arrived in Aramaywan.

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8. The students ______(take) the test, but the teacher told them to take it again.

9. We _______(eat) before the visitors came.

10. Few people _____ (understand) the news when the pandemic began to
spread in the community.

11. She _______(file)the resignation before her boss fired her in the company.

12. Secretary Harry Roque _____(find) many reasons to justify the news before
he talked in front of the people.

13. He _____(take) the updates when the mass media arrived.

14. The president ____(decide) to distribute the relief goods before the virus
came in the Philippines.

15. Many of the front liners ______(feel)disappointed on the manners shown by

the Covid positive patients.

Additional Activities

Complete the paragraph below by using the verbs in the parenthesis to

form sentences in the past perfect tense. Write your answer in a separate sheet
of paper.

Before President Duterte announced the total lockdown in the entire

Luzon due to COVID-19 pandemic, Palawan (has) (1) a vibrant tourism
economy. El Nido and Coron (be) (2) bursting with tourists. Hotels and Resorts
(be) (3) fully booked. Fast food chains and restaurants (cater) (4) the
gastronomic activities of all people, tourists and locals. So, when the lockdown
was announced, some tourists (be) (5) stranded.

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 What I Know
1. a
2. b
ASSESSMENT 3. c
4. c
1. Had gone
5. c
2. Had lived 6. c
3. Had taken 7. a
4. Had bought 8. a
5. Had finished 9. b
6. Had done 10.a
7. Had driven What’s More
8. Had taken Activity 1
1. had dropped
9. Had eaten
2. had shown
10. Had understood 3. had written
11. Had filled 4. had forgiven
12. Had found 5. had gone
13. Had taken 6. had left
14. Had decided 7. had seen
15. Had felt 8. had done
9. had felt
10.had came
11.had given
12.had heard
13.had seen
14.had studied
15.
Activity 2
1. had unloaded-
unhitched
Answer 2. fixed-had
worked
Key 3. arrived-had
finished
4. had eaten-
brought
5. had played-
had
6. reached-had
Additional Activities
already rung
7. had left-
1. Had had
reached
2. Had been
8. had cooked-
3. Had been
got
4. Had catered
9. had printed-
5. Had been
gave
10.had planted-
changed

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References

English Learner’s Material Grade 7 (2017) 1st edition, Bureau of Curriculum

Department; Department of Education pp.344-345

http://www.englishworksheetsland.com
www.education.com
www.englishclub

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