Past Perfect Simple and Continuous - Grammar Question Practice
Practise past perfect simple and continuous through personal questions and paired speaking at B2 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 earlier results and sustained activity before a later past moment.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Use the single learner page in pairs. Personal or invented responses can vary; there is no fixed answer key.
- Identify the later reference point in the missed-connection exchange and the earlier waiting and missed connection.
- Discuss relief, deadlines, tiredness and preparation; connect each earlier event or activity to the later situation.
- Describe a difficult day starting when a problem was noticed; explain what had happened and what had been happening, then let a partner retell it.
Support and extension
Draw a two-point timeline. Keep states such as known in the simple form; accept an earlier activity in either aspect when the speaker's focus makes sense.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
