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Past time expressions and tenses - board game
B1-B2
20-30 mins
groups: 3-4
board game
speaking cues
 
 Board game with speaking cues for statements using past tenses with time expressions: When I got up this morning.... Until I left school, I'd never.... By the time I was 12.... etc.
 
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Past perfect - explaining past situations OXO
B1-B2
 
Nine past simple statements (situations) that can be explained using past perfect sentences. Can be done as a noughts and crosses, a matching activity or pairwork
 
 
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Past perfect tense -uses - analysis and examples
B1-B2
 
Worksheet on the use of the past perfect tense in English. Includes examples of the past perfect for referring back to earlier events and actions, for reported speech, for expressing wishes and regrets, and for forming past conditionals.
 
 
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Past perfect simple and continuous - speaking practice
B1-B2
20-30 mins
groups: 3-4
 
Cut up. Students take it in turns to read out statements using the past simple: the house was a mess on Sunday morning. Others have to guess the reason using the past perfect: You'd had a party the night before.
 
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Past perfect anecdote
B1-B2
gap fill
ordering
 
Cut up story (office impostor) and analysis
 
 
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Past perfect oral practice - simple version
B1-B2
 
past perfect for explaining past events. One student reads a question - example, 'Why was David so tired yesterday?' Other students have to guess the same explanation using the past perfect.
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
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Unit 2 Lives and Legends  Page 21   Past perfect & past simple
 
 
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Unit 11 Journey  Page 98 

 
 
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Module 14 Money, money, money  Page 126 
 
 
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Module 5 Unusual achievements  Pages 54 - 55  Perfect tenses
Listening, analysis and follow-up exercises on present perfect simple, future perfect simple and past perfect simple
 
 
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29 - Detective work  Page 29 
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History quiz page 35  Page 35 
What had happened when these historic photographs were taken? 'The Wright Brothers had just made their first flight.'
 
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Developing Grammar in Context
9 The past perfect  Pages 47 - 52
 
 
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40 Work it out  Page 40 
Six mystery puzzles of the dead-man-in-a-field-with-a-parachute-on-his-back kind. All contain examples of the past perfect.
 
 
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