PAST PERFECT

DBA: Explains ideas presented in an oral or written text about topics of interest or that are familiar through the use of previous knowledge, inferences or interpretations

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to identify and use the structure of the past perfect when they need to express their ideas in this tense.

INTRODUCCIÓN (WARM UP)

Find the past participle of the following verbs 

Get                                      fall                         sleep                             write                       do

become                               begin                     sell                                see                         come

know                                   awake                    buy                                tell                          drink

drive                                    eat                         forget                             go                          let

steal                                    take                        win 

F	O	R	G	O	T	T	E	N	A
N	N	O	N	D	R	E	N	O	D
E	E	A	T	E	T	S	Y	K	L
L	E	K	W	H	T	X	O	N	O
L	S	L	G	O	D	A	E	U	T
A	N	U	L	R	K	T	E	R	S
F	O	E	I	T	T	E	K	D	N
B	N	V	T	O	A	N	N	E	T
W	E	W	G	H	O	K	K	N	O
N	O	I	N	N	R	U	M	N	D
F	E	N	E	B	E	C	O	M	E
E	M	T	S	O	L	D	C	R	P
F	O	E	U	S	L	E	P	T	B
N	C	N	C	B	E	G	U	N	Y
S	K	W	R	I	T	T	E	N	B
O	N	G	J	P	H	A	U	P	O
L	O	O	M	R	V	K	E	N	U
D	W	N	A	T	X	E	T	T	G
B	N	E	T	A	E	N	O	R	H
C	A	N	E	L	O	T	S	A	T

  

¿QUÉ VOY A APRENDER? (PRESENTATION)

Sarah went to a party last week                                  Paul went to the party too, but they didn´t see each other

 Paul went home at 10: 30 and Sarah arrived at 11: 00 o´clock.  So...

When Sarah arrived at the party, Paul wasn´t there. 

He had gone home.

HAD GONE is the past perfect.

I             /    YOU  /      WE        /    THEY HE         /    SHE     /      IT	HAD	(  I´D   ) ( HE´D)	GONE
			SEEN

The past perfect simple is HAD + PAST PARTICIPLE 

 

Sometimes we talk about something that happened in the past:

 

Sarah arrived at the party.

 

This is the starting point of the story. Then, if we want to talk about things that happened before this time, we use the past perfect.

 

* When Sarah arrived at the party, Paul had already gone home. 

 

* Karen didn´t want to come to the cinema with us because she had already seen the film.

 

HAD DONE is the past of HAVE DONE.

 

Compare the past perfect (I had done) and the past simple ( I did). 

 

Ann wasn´t at home when I phoned. She was in London

 

Ann had just got home when I phoned. She had been in London.

 

PRACTICO LO QUE APRENDÍ (PRACTICE)

 

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-perfect-exercise-1.html

 

Complete the sentences with one verb in the past simple and one in the past perfect.

 

a.       She ______________ (feel) exhausted because she ______________________ (walk) eight kilometers that day.

b.       I _______________ (miss) my fight because I _________________ (forget) my passport.

c.       I __________________ (buy) any souvenirs so I ____________________(get)  a cheap magnet at the airport.

d.       We ____________________ (not / go) skiing because it ____________________ (not / snow) for weeks

e.       The youth hostel _________________ (not / have) our booking but we ___________________ (make) it online weeks ago!

f.         They ______________________ (leave) their camera in the hotel so they ______________________ (use) their smartphones to take photos.

 

Look at the pictures. Do you know what they show? Where is this place?

Why is this place important? Read the text quickly to check your answers.

In the Palm of Dubai

(1) ___________________ It’s incredible, burning, often over 40 degrees Celsius in the summer months. Part of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Dubai is a city in the middle of the desert. Where the pavement ends, sand begins, and it stretches for kilometers and kilometers into the distance.

Despite this harsh climate, the people of Dubai have turned their city into one of the world’s most popular tourist resorts.

 (2) ___________________There are five-star hotels that you need special permission to visit. If you want to buy souvenirs, you can buy gold jewelry from a vending machine. The shopping malls are enormous palaces with every luxury product you could think of.

(3)_____________________ One of the most famous is the Palm Island. This is an artificial island built in the sea right next to the city. It is the site of luxury homes and hotels, although it’s not actually the best place to go sightseeing. It’s only possible to see the palm shape from the air.

 (4) ______________________To build the Palm Island, the developers destroyed both places where turtles lay their eggs as well as the only coral reef along the coast. The coral was an essential habitat for marine life and although there are plans to replace it with an artificial reef, the damage has already been done.

 (5)________________________ Large numbers of people are moving to live in Dubai and they all need water, something which is not easily available in the desert. The solution is to use desalination plants and factories which turn sea water into fresh water. These use enormous amounts of electricity and produce large amounts of CO2.

 (6) ________________________ On the one hand, we want to make pleasant places for people to live and exciting locations for tourists to enjoy. This creates jobs for people where there is no other work. On the other hand, development often equals destruction, and the environment suffers as a result.

Complete the opening sentence of each paragraph 1-6 with a-g.

There is one extra sentence.

a. In Dubai, wealth is everywhere.

b. The question is whether this development has had too great a

negative impact.

c. In conclusion, Dubai represents many of the problems that we have

in the modern world.

d. The original inhabitants lived a peaceful life, making their homes

in tents in the desert.

e. The first thing you notice when you arrive in Dubai is the extreme heat.

f. To attract visitors, Dubai has begun many huge construction projects.

g. That is not the only environmental problem.

 

 ¿QUÉ APRENDÍ? (PRODUCTION)

Listen to four people, Bob, Andrea, Jim, and Pauline describe something bad that happened on holiday, Who... (track 65 English Please 3)

1. made a mistake because of the weather?

2. was a victim of crime?

3. got lost?

4. became ill?

Look at the events from the listening.

Which one happened first? Which one

happened second? Write 1 or 2.

a. _________Then I noticed that my bag was open. _______Someone had stolen my digital camera.

b. _________ I woke up in the middle of the night feeling ill. _______We had eaten some prawns.

c. _________ I hadn’t wanted to go on a guided tour. ___________ I just went to explore the city on my own.

d.__________ My face was red. __________ I had been on the beach all day and I hadn’t put on any suncream.

 

Look again at the text. Now discuss these questions