General English Level 4 V 3

UNIT 04 What happened? TOPIC 04 A folk tale

	LANGUAGE FOCUS 02 The past perfect tense
	In this activity you are going to learn how to use the past perfect tense.

The storyteller says:
	Dieter ran off and as soon as he had disappeared from sight, Hans felt very lonely.

In sentences with more than one action or event, we need to show clearly which action or event happened first. We use different tenses to show this. We use the past perfect to show the first action (1) and the past simple to show the second action (2) .

Dieter ran off and as soon as he had disappeared (1) from sight, Hans felt (2) very lonely.

We make the past perfect with had (the past simple of have ) + the past participle.

We make the negative form of the past perfect like this:

We make the question form of the past perfect like this:

Examples

1	Read the examples.
2	Listen to the examples.
3	Practise saying each example. Use the Pause button.

They could not see her because she had already left.

She had always wanted to travel and now she could.

Last year I went back to the village where I had been so happy.

I hadn't heard the band before but they were very good.

They had eaten all the food and then left.

She had taught them a good lesson and they were glad.

Now go to 03 PRACTICE A folk tale.