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Welcome to the past perfect section. You can use this as a resource to find worksheets and activities or even just as inspiration when creating worksheets of your own. Since all the worksheets are free, easy to download, and printable, lesson planning does not need to take up as much of your time as it use to. There are 46 Past Perfect worksheets available to you in this section, as well as more tense worksheets in other subsections. Here is a sample worksheet from this page. It was designed with upper intermediate classes in mind and has actually been updated since it was first posted which shows that Busy Teacher is always evolving. There is just one activity which gives students more practice forming past perfect sentences without taking up too much class time. You might also want to consider using this as a homework assignment. To make things even better, the answer key is included so you can just start printing out worksheets now. For other tense worksheets, look through the rest of this section or others.
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GRAMMAR TIP: What Is Past Perfect?
The past perfect is a grammatical combination of past tense with the perfect, itself a combination of tense and aspect, that exists in most Indo-European languages. It is used to refer to an event that had continuing relevance to a past time. Comrie classifies the pluperfect (which is another name for Past Perfect) as an absolute-relative tense because it absolutely (not by context) establishes a deixis (the past) and places the action relative to the deixis (before it). In the sentence "A man who for years had thought he had reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now found that suffering had no limits, and that he could suffer still more, and more intensely." (from Victor Frankls' Man's Search for Meaning), "had thought" and "had reached" are examples of the pluperfect. It refers to an event (a man thinks he is reaching his limit), which takes place before another event (the man realizes that he has no limit).
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The Tale Of The Three Brothers [Harry Potter] The Tale Of The Three Brothers [Harry Potter]Cloze exercise to practice the use of the Past Continuous, Past Simple and Past Perfect. Students have to complete The Tale of the Three Brothers, a little tale embedded in the last Harry Potter b ...
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Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Forrest Gump and American Realities Forrest Gump and American RealitiesThe PowerPoint presentation focuses on the figures and events of American history depicted in the film "Forrest Gump". It helps EFL students to get the more profound understanding of the plot. The ...
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rated by 5 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Song Worksheet: I Deserve It by Madonna Song Worksheet: I Deserve It by MadonnaThis is a simple listening worksheet for the song "Ideserve it" by Madonna. You will find two exercises: a) fill in the blanks and b) Answer T or F. The tense I wanted students to work on was the ...
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rated by 2 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Past Perfect vs Past Perfect Continuous Worksheet Past Perfect vs Past Perfect Continuous WorksheetThis is a worksheet contrasting the past perfect and the past perfect continuous tense.There are 4 pages with different activities in which students are asked to fill in the blank spaces with the ...
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rated by 8 teachers

Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Memory Game with Past Participles Memory Game with Past ParticiplesThis is game to be played like Memory, but you need to match the base form and past participle form instead of a picture, or word. I also laminate all my cards. This vocabulary is for what I cal ...
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rated by 9 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Past Perfect Worksheet Past Perfect WorksheetThis worksheet focuses on past perfect tense with its linking words. There is a brief grammar explanation before the exercises. Students should rewrite the sentences using the given linking words. ...
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rated by 6 teachers

Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Video Activity: When a Stranger Calls Video Activity: When a Stranger CallsThe worksheet is suitable to introduce or review the Past Perfect Tense. The scenes used are from the movie "When a stranger calls" (1979). The first scenes are the ones necessary. They take about ...
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rated by 7 teachers

Intermediate
 
Irregular Verbs Test Irregular Verbs TestIrregulars can be tricky, so here they are. This set of cards is to help you to check your students' knowledge of irregular verbs. The verbs are the most common in use. You can vary the ta ...
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rated by 11 teachers

Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
 
Irregular Verbs Crossword Irregular Verbs CrosswordThis is a crossword containing irregular verbs. The crossword can be used in order to help the young learners to remember the forms of irregular verbs better. The students are to write the past si ...
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rated by 12 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Past Perfect Sentence Construction Past Perfect Sentence ConstructionA quick exercise where students work in pairs to build sentences using the past perfect tense. They must choose appropriate words from each column and write the complete sentences underneath. The ...
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rated by 11 teachers

Intermediate
 
Euronews Worksheet: The Story Of Rescue Euronews Worksheet: The Story Of RescueHere are some pieces of the news that were told by Euronews on TV about disaster that happened to the miners in Chile. Few very short separate stories carry a lot of information and give a chance ...
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rated by 8 teachers

Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Song Worksheet: Song Worksheet: "Haven't Met You Yet" by Michael BubleFill in the blanks activity. Great song, people of all ages like it. Good to work Present Perfect Tense and Phrasal Verbs. I gave it to my Teen students and they sang along. Goog vocabulary with m ...
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rated by 6 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
 
Past Perfect Tense Worksheet II Past Perfect Tense Worksheet IIThis is a worksheet for teaching the past perfect tense.Students are asked to read the text, answer the questions, fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verb given and complete the sentenc ...
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rated by 7 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
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