the past perfect simple tense

Q2-Does this event happen in the past, the present or the future?. Yesterday I cleaned the floor as the cats had knocked over the plant pots.. My friend was in hospital because he had s

Grammar time!

Name that tense

The pupils talked about the film after they had watched it

Q1- Did the pupils talk about the film before or after

they had watched it?

Q2-Does this event happen in the past, the present

or the future?

Q3- Which tense is used in the first part of the

sentence?

Yesterday I cleaned the floor as the

cats had knocked over the plant pots.

Q1-When did this event happen?

Q2-What happened before she cleaned the floor?

My friend was in hospital because he had slipped on a banana skin!

Q1-Why is the friend in hospital?

Q2-Did he go to hospital before or after the accident?

Which tenses are used in these

sentences?

 The pupils talked about the film after they had

watched it

 Yesterday I cleaned the floor as the cats had

knocked over the plant pots

 My friend was in hospital because he had

slipped on a banana skin!

Which tenses are used in these

sentences?

 ANSWER- The past simple and past perfect

 When do we use the past simple tense?

 ANSWER- completed actions in the past ‘I ate

breakfast at 8am.’

 When do we use the past perfect tense?

 When we are talking about actions and events

in the past that finished BEFORE something

else in the past ‘The children fell asleep as

they had eaten lots of chocolate.’

Past perfect

 Subject + had + past participle

 Regular verbs= ‘ed’ on the end

 Irregular verbs- we must know how

they are formed.

How to use this tense?

came home

reading

raining.

church

Activity

 Complete the sentence activity.

 Complete the speaking activity.