Past Perfect Video Worksheet PDF
Past Perfect Video Worksheet PDF
Past Perfect Video Worksheet PDF
Task 1 Watch the following video and complete the missing information:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-pLTIafYWM
By the time
CLUE WORDS IN PAST PEFECT Already
Just
When
Before
After
Negative
He had not cleaned his desk
Subject + had+ not+ past
participle
Interrogative Had+ Subject + past participle Had they studied English before
they went to London?
Finally, fill the chart with the use or an example.
Use Example
1 To talk about a situation or activity that was Susy had already left home when Mike arrived.
completed after another past situation or activity
Task 2 Complete the sentences using the words in brackets. You will need to add articles, prepositions etc.
1. Louise wasn’t hungry because she had had vegetarian restaurant downtown big lunch.
(have / big lunch / vegetarian restaurant downtown)
2. I didn’t know who she was because I had not met before she.
(not meet / she / before)
3. The police arrived because somebody had robbed local bank.
(rob / local bank)
4. John couldn’t come to the classes yesterday because he had broken his leg skiing accident.
(break / his leg / skiing accident)
5. Laura didn’t want to go to the cinema because she had seen before the film.
(see / the film / before)
Task 3 Put the verbs in brackets into Past Perfect or Past Simple
After Jim and Terry finished (finish) their breakfast, they took (take) their bags and went (go) to the river to fish.
They had gone (go) there before and caught (catch) some big fish. By 5 o’clock they had not got (not/get) any fish, so
they decided to go home. They promised (promise) their mother to bring fish for dinner, so they had looked (look) for a
shop where they could buy some but the shops already had closed (already/close). When they had arrived (arrive) home,
they had told (tell) their mother that they caught (catch) the biggest fish they ever saw (ever/see) but it escaped(escape).
Task 4 Read the story and put in the missing verbs from the box.
Became Gave Make Reached
Caught Got Make sure Set out
Could Had finished Met Slept
Decided Had left Misread Understand
Drove Hitchhiking Missed Welcomed
Explained Know Persuade Were sent
Found Lost Put Woke up
This story happened a few years ago when British people could go on a day trip to France without a passport. It is about
a Mrs and Mrs. Elham who went on a day trip to Boulogne.
When they had finished their shopping, the decided couple for a walk to see the sights of the town. Unfortunately, they
didn’t understand much French and couldn’t really misread the street signs, so they _____________ completely lost. The
French people they explained were very kind and eventually they found a lift to the railway station.
As the last ferry drove, the Elhams _____________ to go to Paris and _____________ their way back to Dover from there.
Unfortunately, they _____________ the wrong train and _____________ themselves the next morning – in Luxembourg!
The local police _____________ (the confused passengers on a train for Paris and they _____________ most of the way
– all too soundly in fact, for they _____________ their connection and _____________ in Basel in Switzerland!
The obliging Swiss police _____________ the couple directions back to Boulaogne but somehow the y_____________ their
way again and ended up _____________ over sixty kilometers to Vesoul in central France. A long-distance lorry dirver
gave the confused couple a lift to Paris, but when they _____________ the Gare du Nord, their troubles were not over.
‘We _____________ the signs,’ Mrs. Elham _____________ ‘and took the train to Bonn in Germany.’
From Germany the Elhams _____________ quickly back to France. At the border, a sympathetic gendarme decided to
_____________ they got to Boulogne safely, so he _____________ them all the way there.
As they didn’t have passports, it took twenty-four hours to _____________ the Customs that their unreal story
_____________ possibly be true. But at last they were allowed on a ferry and soon the familiar white cliffs of Dover
_____________ the Elhams back to England.