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UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA DE AMBATO
FACULTAD DE CIENICAS HUMANAS Y DE LA EDUCACION
CARRERA DE IDIOMAS
GRAMMAR II
NAME: MESIAS NATALY & TANGUIL JUAN
SAMPLE LESSON – PAST PERFECT INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
STEP 1
The teacher presents students the following events
Yesterday when I arrived home, I couldn’t believe my eyes:
▪ Someone had broken into my house.

▪ They had broken the door and the window.

▪ They had stolen all my money.

▪ They had even eaten the food in the fridge.

STEP 2
Ask students which things happened first? Had those terrible things happened before or
after arriving?
(Board) Draw a diagram to make the situation clearer:

The function of the Past Perfect tense is to talk about an event or activity that was
completed before another event, activity or time in the past. When using this tense, there
will always be two past events or activities, or an event with a particular time in the past.
but for make this part clear, we are going to watch to the following video and please, take
notes
In the same diagram mark lines for different hours and tell students this is what happened
yesterday. Write down a series of events that took place yesterday and mark them in their
corresponding place in the timeline:
(board) I left the school at 6pm.
(board) My mother started preparing dinner at 6 and finished at 7.
(board) I got home at 7:15
Say, “When I got home, my mother had finished preparing dinner.” Ask students to provide
more examples, comparing historical or past events

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