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.
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
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.
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.
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.
