Extreme Situations: Grammar

Extreme Situations: Grammar

Answer these questions orally in complete sentences:

What had you done by 8 o'clock last night?

What had you been doing before the lesson?

What sports had you tried before your last birthday?

What had you learnt about the plane crash in the Andes by the end of the text?

Where had the plane been travelling to when it crashed?

Fill in the Blank

What tenses were used in the questions just now?

Open Ended

Read these following sentences:

1. We had forgotten our passports, so we went home to get them.

2. He had travelled all over the world by his 30th birthday.

What tense has been highlighted in the sentences above?

Open Ended

Make the following sentence negative:

We had forgotten our passports, so we went home to get them.

Open Ended

Make the following sentence negative:

He had travelled all over the world by his 30th birthday.

Open Ended

In the following sentence, what happened first?

We had forgotten our passports, so we went home to get them.

Open Ended

According to the following sentence, what happened before his 30th birthday?

He had travelled all over the world by his 30th birthday.

Multiple Choice

Read the following sentences again:

1. We had forgotten our passports, so we went home to get them.

2. He had travelled all over the world by his 30th birthday.

We use the Past Perfect Simple for an action or situation that finished before another action, situation or time in the past. True or False?

• True

• False

Open Ended

Read the sentence below and identify the verbs.

They had been walking in the desert for days, so they were exhausted.

Open Ended

Read the sentence below and identify the verbs.

We had been driving for a few hours before we realised that we were lost.

Multiple Choice

We use the Past Perfect Continuous for actions that started in the past and were still in progress when another action occurred in the past.

Which of the following sentences matches the use of the Past Perfect Continuous above?

• They had been walking in the desert for days, so they were exhausted.

• We had been driving for a few hours before we realised that we were lost.

Multiple Choice

We use the Past Perfect Continuous for actions that were in progress in the past and had an effect on a later action in the past.

Which of the following sentences matches the use of the Past Perfect Continuous above?

• They had been walking in the desert for days, so they were exhausted.

• We had been driving for a few hours before we realised that we were lost.

Past Perfect Simple

• For an action or situation that finished before another action, situation or time in the past, e.g.

• 1. We had forgotten our passports, so we went home to get them.

  2. He had travelled all over the world by his 30th birthday.

Past Perfect Continuous

• For actions that started in the past and were still in progress when another action occurred in the past, e.g. We had been driving for a few hours before we realised that we were lost.

• For actions that were in progress in the past and had an effect on a later action in the past, e.g. They had been walking in the desert for days, so they were exhausted.

Fill in the Blank

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the Past Perfect Simple of the verbs in brackets.

The skier ___________ (return) to the hotel before the storm started.

Fill in the Blank

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the Past Perfect Continuous of the verbs in brackets.

My grandfather ____________ (live) in his old house for ages before

he moved in with us.

Fill in the Blank

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the Past Perfect Simple or the Past Perfect Continuous of the verbs in brackets.

The survivors ____________ (finally / reach) a village after days of walking.

Task: Complete Ex. F, G, H (p. 87)