The past perfect and the past perfect continuous - Unit 3
Teaching Grammar----Unit 3
The past perfect and the past perfect continuous
Karim is telling his friends about his visit to London in 2000.
1-what had Karim thought about his visit to London before he went in the year 2000?
Karim had thought that the English people didn’t like foreigners before he went to England.
2-what did he discover later?
He discovered that the English are so nice and friendly
‘Before I went to England in the year 2000,I had always thought that they didn’t like foreigners. But, my host family were very nice and did everything they could to make me feel comfortable ,and to make me feel at home. Before I arrived, they had decorated their house and my room. They had also planned visits to the most important places in London. As soon as I had arrived, I discovered that my friend Mike had already been waiting for me in the airport for almost one hour. I arrived in the airport at 7:00, and he had been there from 5:30.He told me that he had a party at home. By the time we arrived at home, I discovered that my friend had prepared special dishes, and that the party had already started. He had also invited some other friends .At that night I discovered that the English I had learnt at school was very useful for me. That night I was very tired and I slept at almost 12:00.” This is just a……………….
3-Read the text again and underline all the actions (verbs).
4-Put the actions in this chart depending on their logical order-sequence.
Expression used |
Later(second)action |
First action |
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1-before 2-before 3-as soon as
The first action is |
1-I went to England in the year 2000, 2-I arrived, 3-I discovered that…..
always in the past perfect and the second is in |
1-I had always thought that……. 2-they had decorated their house and my room 3-I had arrived
simple past |
|
Tense: simple past |
Tense:pst perfect |
|
5-NOW ,DISCOVER
The past perfect: FORM→SUBJECT+HAD+VERB IN THE PAST PARTICIPLE
USE----WE USE THE PAST PERFECT FOR AN ACTION WHICH HAPPENED BEFORE ANOTHER ACTION IN THE PAST.SO, THE FISRT ACTION IS ALWAYS IN THE PAST PERFECT AND THE SECOND IS IN SIMPLE PAST
The past perfect continuous: FORM→SUBJECT+HAD BEEN+VERBing
USE→ The same use above.prefered when the action is progressive or continous
6-Match each part of the sentences in A with an appropriate part from B:
A |
|
B |
1-The children had already done their homework --d 2-My wife didn‘t watch the film with me,--c 3-when Tom arrived,---b 4-………………DO THIS ONE………………….. 5-Sue had been watching her favourite programme |
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a-I had never travelled by plane before that. b-the match had already started. c-because she had seen it before. d-when their mother arrived. e-……………DO THIS ONE………………………… |
7- Put the verbs between brackets in the correct tense: Simple past or Past perfect(cont.).
1-When I (arrive) arrived at 9:00 yesterday morning, Merriam (leave/already) had already left to Rabat.
2-Bill was in uniform when I met him. He (serve) had been serving as a soldier for 10 years.
3-Ann (die) died in 1950. She (live)had been living in a cottage for sixty years.
4-Last year there (be) was some rain in Morocco. Before that the country (suffer) had suffered from serious droughts.
5-America occupied Iraq in 2003. before that, its people (enjoy) had enjoyed an economic prosperity.
Please notice that the blue verbs are in the simple past ,and the red verbs are in the past perfect
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