1. OBJECTIVES
Past perfect tense (Explanation)
Exercises

2. Past perfect tense 7:30am…. I ate a big breakfast
8:00am…. I went to school.
Now…. 1:00 pm
Both of these activities happened in the past!  However, one happened before the other
What happened first?  What happened second?
First:  I ate breakfast.
Second:  I went to school.

3. Here is a common way to write (or say) these two actions using the past perfect.  The past perfect is written in red.
Before I went to school, I had eaten a big breakfast.
-OR-
After I had eaten breakfast, I went to school.

4. The past perfect tense
Look at this sentence .
I had eaten my breakfast before I went to school.
6:30 a.m :00 a.m

5. How is the past perfect formed?
Had+PP.
Ali had played football before he went back home.

6. Look at this example. After she had taken his music lesson,
she made a telephone call.

7. What had Ali done before he went fishing?
Ali had repaired his car,
before he went fishing.

8. The key words of this tense are:
after
as soon as
{had+PP}
Past simple

9. The key words of this tense are:
before
{past simple}
+ Had+PP
By the time

10. The use of the past perfect tense.
We use the past perfect to talk about an action which happened before another action in the
past

11. After I had finished work ,I watched TV
Make similar sentences using after and before.
Finish work-watch TV
After I had finished work ,I watched TV
Before I watched TV ,I had finished my work.

12. As soon as I had eaten my breakfast,I went to school
Make similar sentences using by the time and as soon as
Eat breakfast-go to school
By the time I went to school,I had eaten my breakfast.
As soon as I had eaten my breakfast,I went to school

13. Police arrive-thief escape
Make similar sentences using by the time and as soon as
Police arrive-thief escape
By the time the police arrived,the thief had escaped.
As soon as the thief had escaped ,the police arrived.

14. Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 Exercise 7 Exercise 8 Exercise 9 Exercise 10

15. 1. ENGLISH PAGE - Verb Tense Exercise 11
2. Past Perfect - Simple Past - Exercises - English

16. Pre ICFES
Reading: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5 Listening: part 3
Grammar, Vocabulary

17. Supermarket Listening
Food. Listening
part 3 - monologue with notes to complete