- The past perfect tense is used to express an action before a point of time in the past or an action that had happened before another past action.... UNIT 3: PEOPLE’S BACKGROUND.[r]
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Complete the following table.
TO INFINITIVE PAST FORM PAST PARTICIPLE
to put
wrote
taken crept
(3)TO INFINITIVE PAST FORM PAST PARTICIPLE
to put put put
to write wrote written
to take took taken
to creep crept crept
to leave left left
Your key.
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I PRONUNCIATION:
The man was sad because he had to sleep in a bad bed
/ e / / æ / men man
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• Practice these sentences:
1 The fat man has a red pen.
2 This handbag will be sent to Helen.
3 Sam said apples were very expensive then. 4 There’re ten pans on the shelf.
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Eg 1: After the tragic death of Pierre Curie in 1906, she took up the position which her husband had
obtained at the Sorbonne.
Eg 2: When she came, the school had been over
II: GRAMMAR :THE PAST PERFECT
A Form
S + HAD + V3 / VED … S + HADN’T + V3 / VED…
HAD + S + V3 / VED … ?
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Eg 4: Before 1891, Marie Curie had lived in Warsaw.
Eg 5: They went for a wark after they had watched the news on television.
B USE:
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Eg 6: He (be) ……… a teacher before 1945
Eg 7: I (go) ……… … to bed after I had finished my homework
a was b has been c had been d had be
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Exercise 1: Use the verbs in brankets in the past perfect. Why did Tom’s mother get angry with him?
Because he (break) ………… her favourite vase When did you watch TV last night?
When I (do) ……… all my homework
3 Did you first see them at my last birthday party? No, I (meet) ………… them before
4 Why did she return home ?
She suddenly remembered she (not, turn off) …… the gas stove
Because he had broken her favourite vase
When I had done all my homework No, I had met them before
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Exercise 1: (cont’)
5 How did they like our city?
They said it was the loveliest city they (ever, see)
6 It rained yesterday after it (be) ………… dry for month By the time he arrived, all his classmates (leave) ………
8 We didn’t have their phone number because the (move) ……… …… to the South
They said it was the loveliest city they had ever seen It rained yesterday after it had been dry for month
7 By the time he arrived, all his classmates had left
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Exercise 2:Put the verbs in brackets in the past simple or the past perfect.
1 We just (finish) …… dinner when they (come) … - We had just finished dinner when they came
2 He seldom (travel) …… by bicycle before he (go) …… to Vietnam
- He had seldom travelled by bicycle before he went to Vietnam
3 Ann (go) …… to get the carpet for the room but someone already (take) …… it
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Exercise 2: (cont’)
4 You (manage) …… to see the Director, or he (go) …… out by the time you get there?
- Did you manage to see the Director, or he had gone
out by the time you get there?
5 He just (get) … home when you (phone)… He (be) … in New York
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Exercise 3: There are five mistakes in the use of tenses in the following story Find and correct them.
While George was reading in bed, two thieves in to his kitchen When they had entered the house, they went into the dining room It was very dark, so they on a torch Suddenly, they
heard a voice behind them
“ What’s up? What’s up? ” a voice had called out The two thieves dropped the torch and ran away as quickly as they could
George had heard the noise and came down quickly He turned on the light but he couldn’t see anybody The thieves already went But George’s parrot, Henry, was still there
“What’s up?” he called
“Nothing, Henry,” George said and smiled “ Go back to sleep.”
climbed turned
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Choose the best answers:
1.Before 1995, he ……… as a private tutor in Nha Trang city
A works B have worked C worked D had worked
2 The World War II ……… in 1939 and ……… 1945
A began / had ended B began / ended
C had begun / ended
3 Jane ……… in London for years before she ………… to New York D begins/ ended
A had lived / moved B lived / moved
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HOMEWORK
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