Past Perfect

Rules Past Perfect

• Had + past participle• (Had made)

• With the Past Perfect you say that something happened before something else.

• Past Perfect | Past | Present

• When I walked to school, I noticed i had left my notebook at home

• You left your notebook, before you walked to school.

• So,• Had left -> Past Perfect (happened first)• Walked -> Past (happened next)

Past perfect continuous

• I had been walking for ten minutes when I tripped over a stone.

• Here you were already walking when you tripped.

• So again,• Had been walking -> Past Perfect Continuous• Tripped -> Past (happened while walking)

Exercise

• 1. I … (to go) home, after I … (to finish) my work.• 2. After the hamster … (to die), I … (am) crying.• 3. I … (to read) for 2 hours when the phone …

(to ring).• 4. When you … (to come) here, the door … (to

be) closed by the wind.• 5. I … (to get) bored when I … (to do) these

exercises.

Answers

• 1. I went home, after I had finished my work.• 2. After the hamster had died, I was crying.• 3. I had been reading for 2 hours when the

phone rang.• 4. When you came here, the door had been

closed by the wind.• 5. I got bored when I had done these

exercises.

Questions?

Homework

• Make:exercise 5, 6, 7 and 8 about the past present.

• Learn:Vocab 5.4Stones 7 and 8