Past Perfect - Grammar Question Practice
Practise past perfect through personal questions and paired speaking at B1 level. Includes a model exchange, follow-up support and a communicative task; answers are open-ended.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Model exchange
- Topic-based partner questions
- Follow-up support
- Communicative pair practice
Explain an earlier event before a later past situation.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Use the single learner page in pairs. Personal or invented answers can vary; there is no fixed answer key.
- Read the wrong-cinema model and establish checking, arriving and missing the film.
- Ask about preparation, expectations, achievements and changes before past events.
- Invent a problem caused by missing preparation, then explain the omission, problem and solution to a partner.
Support and extension
Draw two points on a timeline. Use had plus participle for the earlier event; return to past simple for subsequent events rather than making the whole account past perfect.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
