GRAMMER

tenses
G7 Unit 3 – Past Perfect
Seconday
School
It is sometimes easier to understand when we use
the past perect if we compare it to the past simple.

Let’s discover in this lesson:

1. When we use the past perfect.
2. How we make sentences in the past perfect.

When do we use it?

Function: When do we use it?
Past perfect simple and past simple

Yes, but got there late and everyone had

already finished eating it was so
Did you go to Jame’s embarassing. I had to do extra homework
birthday meal on in the afternoon because I had missed
Saturday? school the week before when I was ill.
What a disaster !

Saturday
Look at the conversation
and put the events on the
timeline

I got there late. I had missed Everyone had

school. (already) finished
I had to do lots eating.
of work.
Function: When do we use it?
Past perfect simple and past simple

Use for actions, events and situations that happened before another past action
I got there late and everyone had already finished eating it was so embarrassing. I had to do extra
homework in the afternoon because I had missed school the week before when I was ill. What a disaster !

Saturday

I had missed I had to do lots Everyone had I got there late.

school. of work. (already) finished
eating.

same here
The event in the
conversation are not
consecutive. look....
Here the girl focuses the story at this
We use past point in the time and then mentions
perfect for the something which happeded before
actions furthest in (the past of the past)
the past
Something to consider
Something to consider... Look at the
continuation of the
conversation

The weekend before, I had got wet in a thunderstorm. I went for a long walk
with my best friend and it suddenly started raining.

Notice how:

We do not continue talking in the past perfect simple after the first sentence
because the listener not knows what time period the speaker is referring to.

How do we make
The story continues in
sentences?
the past simple tense
Form: How do we make sentences?
affirmative
e.g. Everyone had finished.
Look at the example affirmative,
negative and question in the past
perfect. Put the pattern in the
correct order. The first is done for
negative you.

e.g. I hadn’t been well.

subject Past
had Past
participate participate
subject had Past
question short answers regular irregular
participate
3rd column
verb+ed
e.g. (Why) had you got wet? Yes, had. subject had + not
she
No, had not. (question Past yes/
word) participate no

had
had not
Form: How do we make sentences?
Everyone had already
affirmative finished eating

e.g. Everyone had finished.

I had missed school I had got wet
subject had Past
participate

negative
e.g. I hadn’t been well.
Remember that we
subject had + not Past commanly use
participate contractions e.g.
Adverbs of time (already, just,
Hadn’t, ‘d.
ever, never) always come
question short answers before the past participle,
e.g. Eveyone had already
e.g. (Why) had you got wet? Yes, had. finished eating
(question had Past she
word) participate No, had not.
yes/ subject had
Let’s practise!
no had not
Practice activities
Use the past simple or the past perfect simple in the gaps.

’d/had just called walked

1. I……………………………….(call/just) Stella when she………………………(walk) through the door.

’s/is running visited

2. Christtopher……………………….(write) Jack a letter and then......................(visit) him the week after.

was ‘d/had ever seen

3. It………...…(be) the most beatiful place they...................................................(see/ever).

read watched
4. I.......................(read) the book a year ago and..........................(watch) the film last Friday..

knew ‘d/had already read

5. I..........…………(know) the plot because I…………………………...……(read/already) a cake.

brought was/had been

6. William..........................(bring) flowers because his grandmother........................................(be) ill.
Practice game
Complete the gaps with the correct form of the past simple or past perfect. Justify your
answers.

We have already eaten when John__________________home.

came has come PERFECT !

Correct answer
coming come
Practice game
Complete the gaps with the correct form of the present simple or present continuous.
Justify your answers.

I opened my hand bag to find that I__________________my

credit card.

had forgot forgat

had forget had forgatten

PERFECT !
Correct answer
Practice game
Complete the gaps with the correct form of the present simple or present continuous.
Justify your answers.

I opened the fridge to find that my son__________________all

my chocolate.

ate had eaten PERFECT !

Correct answer
had eat eating
THE END
thank you
G7 Unit 3– Past Perfect
Seconday
School