E10- UNIT 3- ELANGUAGE FOCUS

The past perfect tenseEx: - I watched film when I had done all my homework.. 2 Use: – The past perfect tense can be used to describe: - an action that had happened before another past

PEOPLE’S BACKGROUND

E LANGUAGE FOCUS

This man is playing tennis.

A /e/ B / æ/ men

said met bed pen send

man sad mat bad pan sand

Listen and repeat

Practise 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 shelf

5 Ben sat on a bench with a yellow cat.

6 Ann never gets bad marks in French.

Grammar

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Tom

Mary

Tom: what did you do last night, Mary?

Mary: I watched film “ Reformed Red Ants ” Tom: when did you watch?

Mary: when I had done all my homework.

Tom: what time did the film start?

Mary: At 7 p.m And I had done all my homework before 7 p.m.

Tom: Really?

Mary: Of course.

The past perfect tens

The past perfect tense

Ex: - I watched film when I had done all my homework (1) -I had done all my homework before 7 p.m (2)

Use:

– The past perfect tense can be used to describe:

- an action that had happened before another

past action (1)

- an action before a point of time in the past (2)

1 He / break / her favourite vase

2 I / do / all my homework before 7 p.m

3 She / not turn off / the gas stove

4 They / not see each other/ for 10 years

5 You / meet / them before?

6 All his classmates / leave / before he

arrived?

Exercise 1

Use the verbs in brackets in the past perfect (textbook- page 39)

1.had broken 2.had done

3.had met 4.had not turned off 5.had ever seen 6.had been

7.had left 8.had moved

9.had not seen 10.had broken in

Exercise 2

Put the verbs in brackets in the simple past or the past perfect

1.We just (finish) dinner when they (come).2.He seldom (travel) by bicycle before he

(go) to Vietnam

3.Ann (go) to get the carpet foe the room but someone already (take)

4.You (manage) to see the director, or he

(go) out by the time you (get) there?

5.He just (get) home when you (phone).He

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 traveled by bicycle before

he went to Vietnam

3 Ann (go) to get the carpet for the room but

someone already (take) it

Ann went to get the carpet for the room but

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

had he gone out by the time you got

5.He just (get) home when you (phone) He

(be) in New York

He had just got home when you phoned

He had been in New York

Do exercise 3

( page 40, textbook)