past perfect worksheet 3

Complete the sentences with the past perfect form of the verbs in brackets .


1. I didn´t watch the film because I ________________ (see) it.

2. She Felt ill because she _________________ (eat) too much.

3. We couldn´t drive to Liverpool because our car ____________ (break down).

4. He _____________ (not finish) his homework so he couldn´t go out.

5. " Why was he soo hungry?" "Because he ____________ (not have) lunch.

Write one sentence, using the past simple and the past perfect .Start with When...

Eg: Joe went out .I arrived home. / When I arrived home , Joe had gone out.

1. I went to bed. Paul phoned.

2. The sholifter ran away .The police arrived.

3. Dad cooked dinner. Mum got home.

4. The vandals sprayed graffity on the wall. The police caught them.

5. The film started .We arrived at the cinema.


REMEMBER:

The past participle of the regular verbs is the same as the past simple:

FINISHED - DANCED - STUDIED - CHATTED .

Sometimes irregular verbs have the same past participleas the past simple form, sometimes they are different.

GO- WENT- BEEN/GONE
BUY- BOUGHT /BOUGHT
SEE - SAW - SEEN.

worksheet past perfect 2

Read the text . Why was the man stupid?

Listeners to a radio programme in Chicago were very surprised when a man phoned the programme and said that he was a bank robber. At the beginning of the programme , the presenter had asked listeners to call in and confess to any " small crimes" they had commited The man described the crime exactly.Five months earlier, he and four other man had gone to a bank in Chicago and had stolen $81,000.A woman who worked in the bank had also helped in the robbery.The man obviously very proud of himself.He didn´t give his name on the radio , but police later discovered the man´s telephoned number and arrested him.

Look at the verbs in bold in the text.Did these events happen before or after the man called the radio station ?

Forming and Using the Past Perfect Tense

The past perfect tense is often used in English when we are relating two events which happened in the past. It helps to show which event heppened first. This page will explain the rules for forming and using the tense.

Forming the past perfect tense:

This tense is formed using two components: the verb HAVE (in the past tense), and the past participle form of a verb. With a regular verb the past participle ends with -ED (just like the simple past). Irregular verbs have a special past participle form that you have to learn. Here are the rules, using the regular verb "arrive" and the irregular verb "eat":

SUBJECT HAVE PAST PARTICIPLE CONTRACTION

I had arrived / eaten I´d arrived / I´d eaten

You had arrived / eaten you ´d arrived / I´d eaten

He had arrived / eaten he ´d arrived / I´d eaten

She arrived / eaten She´d arrived / I´d eaten

It arrived / eaten It ´d arrived / I´d eaten

We arrived / eaten We ´d arrived / I´d eaten

They arrived / eaten They ´d arrived / I´d eaten

Using the Past Perfect

The past perfect is used to show you which of two events happened first. Imagine that two things happened in the past:


"I went to see the movie / We discussed the movie in class."


Here, we don't know which order the events happened in. That may be important -- perhaps I went to see the movie after the discussion, or maybe I saw the movie before the discussion. There are many ways to make this sequence clear, and the past perfect is one of them. This is how we do it:

"I went to see the movie. We had discussed it in class."

Here, we KNOW that the discussion took place FIRST -- even though the sentence describing it comes afterwards. We discussed the movie, and THEN I went to see it. This can be very useful when you are telling a story or relating a sequence of events. At any point in your story, you can jump BACK to a previous event, and your reader will not be confused, because the past perfect will make it clear that the event happened previously. Here is another example:

"I wanted to live in a foreign country, so I applied for a job in Japan. Judy lived in Japan, so I called her to find out more about the culture and lifestyle there".


(Judy was probably still living in Japan when I called her.)

wanted to live in a foreign country, so I applied for a job in Japan. Judy had lived in Japan, so I called her to find out more about the culture and lifestyle there.
(Judy no longer lived in Japan -- she returned from there before I applied for the job.)

worksheet: Past perfect.

Past perfect:

INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE !!!

1. You are going to read three true stories. In each case a sentence is missing from the story.Match each of the sentences with the story and then re- insert the sentences in the appropiate position 1,2 or 3 .


a) She was now nearly 22 and hadn´t met the love of her life yet.
b) At that time Amy didn´t know that Ian had just started his journey from Sydney to London.
c) It was a reply from another Laura Buxton, who had found the ballon in her garden 225 kilometres away.


A. TWO LAURAS: Laura Buxton , 10, was celebrating her grandparents` golden wedding anniversary, whenshe had an idea .
(1)She decided to release a gold and white helium-filled ballom with her name and address and a note attached. In the note she asked the person who found the ballonto write back.Ten days later a letter arrived at her home.
(2)Both Lauras were aged 10 and both have three years-old black Labradors , a guniea pig and a rabbit.
(3)“ I chatted to Laura on the phone”, said the first Laura . “ I hope we can become best friends .We have a lot in common”.


B. WORLD APARTS: Amy Dolby took her seat on the flight from London to Sydney , Australia.She was going to Australia to surprise her boyfriend , Ian Johnstone (1) He wanted to propose to Amy on 1 july because this was the fifth anniversary of their relationship (2) They both stopped in Singapore to wait for connecting flights , but they didn´t know that they were sitting a few metres away from one another. 3. Ian arrived in Amy´s hometown just as she knocked on his door in Sydney.When they found out what has happened , Ian proposed over the phone , and Amy accepted .



C. TEXT BEFORE MARRIAGE: A clairvoyant had once told Emily Brown that she would meet her husband when she was 21. (1) One day, she tapped the next message , “ Do you want to talk? Into her mobile.She then invented a number and sent the message. She didn´t know that the number belonged to her future husband.(2) Peter Bladwin was at work 140 miles away wheb he got the message.He phoned Emiliy, and they chatted for about an hour.(3) They found that they had lots in common and made arrangements to meet.They got married six month later.


2. Work in small groups.Discuss these questions:


• Have you ever read about “incredible but true” stories like the stories in 1?.
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• Do you know any people (couple, friends , collegues) who have met in a strange way?
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• Have any strange coincides or “small world” incidents ever happened to you.



3. Complete the first exctract by choosing the most appropiate tense ( past participle or past perfect) for the numbered verbs .Listen and check your answers.

REINCARNATION :

Jenny Cockell was sure that she (1) lived/ had lived before. As a child , she remembered her past life in her dreams .In particular, she often dreamt about Mary Sutton , a young Irish women who (2) died /had died more than twenty years before Jenny was born.Over the years , Jenny became convinced that her dreams (3) were/had been real memories and that she (4) was / had been Mary in a previous life.

In her dreams she saw the house in Ireland where Mary and her family (5) lived/ had lived .As her visions continued and become more detailed , Jenny (6) realized/had realized that Mary (7) died/ had died in 1930 and that her children could still be alive.She (8) wanted/had wanted to find out and decided to travel to Ireland.

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