F2: U8: Past Perfect vs Past Simple

What do we use the Past Perfect tense to?

• talk about present action

• to make it clear that one action happened before another past action

• to show that one action happened after another action

• to talk about long past action

How do you form the Past Perfect tense?

• had + III f.

• has + III f.

• had + Past Participle

• have + III f.

What happened first?

• This lesson started

• when I arrived

I stopped eating cake when I got a stomachache.

• My stomachache started while I was eating the cake.

• My stomachache started after eating the cake.

1. Sue ____________ (wait) nearly an hour before the doctor _________ (see) her.  

1. By the time Mandy _________ (fall) asleep she ___________ (finish) reading her book on acupuncture. 

• had fallen

  finished

• fell

  has finished

• falll

  finished

• fell

  had finished

1. I ___________ (forget) to take my medicine so I ___________ (begin) to feel dizzy. 

The patient had left the health centre when the receptionist arrived.

• The receptionist saw the patient.

• The receptionist didn’t see the patient.

What happened first?

• When I got home yesterday

• my mum made dinner .

1. Hannah’s temperature ___________ after she _________ the medicine.  

• had dropped

  took

• dropped

  had taken

• dropped

  took

• had dropped

  took