Scribd
Upload
102 views4 pages

Past Perfect Past Simple Past Perfect

The document discusses the past perfect tense and provides examples of its use. It explains that the past perfect is used to describe an event that occurred before another past event. It then provides several examples sentences using the past perfect tense along with exercises for learners to practice forming sentences using both the past perfect and simple past tenses.

Uploaded by

michael
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
102 views4 pages

Past Perfect Past Simple Past Perfect

The document discusses the past perfect tense and provides examples of its use. It explains that the past perfect is used to describe an event that occurred before another past event. It then provides several examples sentences using the past perfect tense along with exercises for learners to practice forming sentences using both the past perfect and simple past tenses.

Uploaded by

michael
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 4

Topic : Past Perfect tense.

Past Perfect is a tense used to describe an event which took place before another one
in the past. The second, the later event, is described with Past Simple tense.

Past Perfect
Had + Past Participle Hadn’t + Past Had + Subject +
Participle Past Participle

How long had you lived in


I had done my homework We hadn’t met him until we
the city before you moved
before you told me to do it. came to Warsaw.
to the country?

Before I met her, I hadn’t


When I got to the cinema, Had the game finished
been in a serious
the film had already begun. before you came?
relationship.

She wasn’t surprised I hadn’t spoken English until


Had you eaten all sweets
because she had known I started watching dubbed
before we arrived?
about it earlier. films.

Exercise 1 Fill in the blanks with the verbs in brackets in appropriate forms of Past Perfect
and Simple :

1. We ________ (go) skiing as soon as the snow _________ (cover) the slope.
2. When I _________ (finish) my morning jog, Kate ____________ (already/have)
breakfast.
3. She _________ (stop) playing volleyball after she _________ (suffer) a knee injury.
4. I __________ (cannot) dive because I ________ (not take) my wet suit with me.
5. Monica _________ (do) many sports before she _________ (take up) athletics
professionally.
6. Mark ________ (decide) to go home when he ________ (realise) that he _________
(forget) his football kit.

Exercise 2 Translate the following parts of sentences into English :


1. When mother got home, she learnt that Peter (poszedł na łyżwy)
___________________________________ an hour before.
2. As soon as I locked the door, I thought that (zostawiłem mój sprzęt sportowy)
___________________________________ in the hall.
3. Agnieszka won the tournament after she (pokonała amerykańską tenisistkę)
___________________________________.
4. Olek was hungry after the game but then he remembered that his grandma (zrobiła)
______________ some dumplings for him!
5. She knocked her opponent out after she (zjadła owsiankę) _____________________
in the morning.
6. He (nie był w formie) ___________________________ before he decided to take
part in a marathon.

Exercise 3 Read the text and fill the blanks with verbs provided in brackets. Use Past Simple
and Past Perfect :
The last World Dog Surfing
Championships, organized in San
Francisco Bay, were won by Nico, the
labrador. The judges _________ (give)
him the highest scores for confidence
and style. After the victory, Nico’s
owner, Mark, was asked how he
________ (teach) his dog to surf. The
answer is, he ________ (not/teach)
him at all. Nico ________ (learn) to
surf by observing Mark, who is a surfer himself. One day the dog just _______ (jumped) on
the board and off he went! Mark ________ (always/known) that his dog was very intelligent
so he ________ (want) Nico to be a service dog. Unfortunately, the dog was a poor student
and _________ (not/want) to learn necessary tricks. Then, Mark _________ (come up with)
another idea. He _________ (notice) that people loved watching videos showing Nico
surfing, so he _________ (decide) to use it to earn money which he could give to people in
need. Mark invited a disabled person to surf with Nico and _______ (shoot) a short video.
Although the dog ________ (be) a poor student before, he ________ (be) an excellent
surfing companion! He ________ (give) confidence to the person surfing with him on the
same board. The video _______ (go) viral! And Nico and Mark have already donated over
$20,000 to charity.

Exercise 4 Fill in the blanks with the information from the text :

1. Nico was the ______________ of the last world dog surfing championships.
2. The dog watched ___________ and this is how he learnt to surf.
3. Nico was so clever that Mark wanted him to become ___________________.
4. Nico didn’t want ______________ so Mark gave up the original idea.
5. Mark made ______________ showing his dog with a disabled person surfing
together.
6. The video has earned ___________________ so far.
HOMEWORK : 1,2,3 / 102-103 (WORKBOOK)

You might also like