lesson two of my unit ( stories)

Tittle unit : Telling stories……………

Unidad didactica lesson 2 .

 

Grammar oriented lesson.

Past perfect .

 

Please look at the picture below and then read the story bellow the picture.

 

 

In the middle of some grass lay a carrot, a scarf and some coal. No one had put them on the grass, but there was a perfectly good reason why they were there.

 

Grammar analysis:

a-In the sentences below, which verb is in past simple? Which is in past perfect ?

 

 

In the middle of some grass lay a carrot, a scarf and some coal. No one had put them on the grass, but there was a perfectly good reason why they were there.

 

 

b- which of the tenses shows which events happened first? How is this tense formed?

 

 

 

 

Past perfect

 

Everyone had left.

 

Had + past participle

 

Now the past perfect links one time in the past with another time further in the past .

 

e.g.: when we got there, everyone had left.

 

Everyone  left                                   we got there                       

 

---------X--------------------------------------X----------------------!--------------------  future

                                  Past                                                      present

 

 

For example :

I got wet because I had left my umbrella at home.

 

Which event happened first ?

 

SIMILARITIES WITH THE PRESENT PERFECT :

 

 

The present perfect is the past of the present:

This isn´t  Jane´s first visit to Australia: she has been there twice.

 

Has been : to have + past participle  =  present perfect.

 

The past perfect is the past of the past :

It wasn´t my first visit to Australia, I had been there before.

 

Had +past participle= past perfect.

 

 

 

-Consolidation practice

 

This is a mini “ tell a story “ so we practice connecting parts of sentences using the words  “so “ and “ because”.

So please match the beginnings of sentences in A with the endings in sentences in B using so or because. Then write out the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

 

Examples:

She spoke French well because she had lived in Paris as a child.

I had left my umbrella at home so I got really wet.

 

 

A

1 she (speak) French very well.

2 I ( leave ) my umbrella at home.

3 My uncle( not want) to move.

4 There (be) no food in the house .

5  My grandparents(never fly) before.

6 When I ( get) home my father was angry.

7 They (already sell) all the tickets.

8        We ( not have to  ) queue in the restaurant.

 

B  a. we  ( not get ) into the concert.

     b. they ( be) nervous when they got the plane.

     c. I (not) phone him.

     d. I ( forget) to go to the supermarket.

     e. my uncle( reserve) a table.

     f. she (live) in Paris as a child.

     g. he ( live) in the same house for forty years.

     h. I ( got ) really wet.

 

Can you add four sentences of your own that apply to you.

 

 

For example .

I had a headache because I had been too long under the sun.

Or  I had studied until late the night before so I was very sleepy the next day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If time allows it we can play noughts and crosses with past tenses.