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    This document contains an exercise to practice using the past perfect simple and continuous tenses. It includes: 1) A pair activity where students ask and answer questions using the past perfect about experiences they had by age 14. 2) A gap fill using past perfect simple or continuous tenses to complete sentences about past experiences and situations. 3) A creative writing activity where students complete sentences of their own about past situations using the past perfect tenses.

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    This document contains an exercise to practice using the past perfect simple and continuous tenses. It includes: 1) A pair activity where students ask and answer questions using the past perfect about experiences they had by age 14. 2) A gap fill using past perfect simple or continuous tenses to complete sentences about past experiences and situations. 3) A creative writing activity where students complete sentences of their own about past situations using the past perfect tenses.

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    2E Past perfect and past perfect continuous

    A Work in pairs. Find out if your partner had done the following by the time he/she was fourteen. Use the past perfect
    simple in your questions and answers.
    • go abroad
    Had you been abroad by the time you were fourteen?
    • eat Japanese food
    • read a book by JK Rowling
    • move house
    • climb a mountain Yes, I’d already been to France and China by then.
    • meet your best friend
    • save up for something
    • sleep in a tent
    • win a prize

    B Complete the sentences using the verbs from the box in the past perfect simple or continuous.

    break down eat forget listen live not know  not make not ride offer spend

    My brother and his fiancée


    1 each other for very long when they got engaged.
    Sara was broke because she
    2 money like water for months.
    The squatters
    3 in the house for months before they were evicted.
    Soon after we
    4 the seafood, we began to feel sick.
    The kids were so embarrassed when they realised the teacher
    5 to their conversation.
    The electricity was cut off because we
    6 to pay the bill.
    Polly was feeling a bit nervous as she
    7 a horse before.
    The students were delighted that the central heating
    8 because they were
    allowed to go home early.
    9 I was so relieved when I found out that the firm me the job.
    10 My dad had to shut down his business last year. It a profit for years.

    C Complete the sentences with your own ideas. Use a past perfect simple or continuous form in each. Try to make your
    sentences as witty and original as possible!
    1 Chloe felt exhausted and depressed. She
    2 My granddad wasn’t wearing his glasses so didn’t realise
    3 The Manchester United fans went wild because
    4 When I looked in the mirror this morning, I was surprised to see that
    5 Ella was too ashamed to admit that
    6 Oscar was feeling a bit anxious. It was the first time
    7 My parents were shocked when my brother told them
    8 The students couldn’t help laughing when they heard

    Solutions 2nd edition  Upper-Intermediate © Oxford University Press • Photocopiable


    2E Past perfect and past perfect continuous

    Aims  To review and practise past perfect simple


    and continuous
    Time  10−15 minutes
    Materials  1 handout for each student
    • Give each student a handout and tell them to complete task
    A in pairs, following the example given. Get feedback from
    the class on anything of interest that they found out about
    their partner.
    • Tell students to complete task B. Check answers as a class,
    ensuring that students can explain their choice of tense in
    each case.
    Answer Key
    1 hadn’t known 6 had forgotten
    2 had been spending 7 hadn’t ridden
    3 had been living 8 had broken down
    4 had eaten 9 had offered
    5 had been listening 10 hadn’t been making
    • Draw students’ attention to the first unfinished sentence in
    task C. Elicit from the class a few different ways in which it
    could be completed. Tell students to complete the remaining
    sentences, trying to make them as amusing/original as possible.
    • Circulate and monitor the activity, ensuring students are
    using the past perfect forms accurately and prompting self-
    correction where necessary.
    • When students have finished, they should read their
    sentences out to a partner. Get feedback from the class on
    their partner’s wittiest/most original answer.

    Solutions 2nd edition  Upper-Intermediate © Oxford University Press

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