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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 66 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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Past Perfect Tense Worksheet
Past Perfect Tense Worksheet
This is a worksheet for intermediate student on past perfect tense.There are 3 activities in which students are asked to match the columns,write the correct form of the verbs in brackets and fill ...
rated by 6 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
Song Worksheet: New Divide by Linkin Park
Song Worksheet: New Divide by Linkin Park
This is a listening worksheet that includes gap completion (with nouns and past tenses) and putting lines in the correct order. I chose this song as my teen students really like it! (The answers a ...
rated by 4 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
Tense Revision
Tense Revision
It's a multiple-choice test in 10 variants to check your students' knowledge of different verb tenses. It enables the teacher to avoid cheating during the test. The test gives students the opportu ...
rated by 12 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
Describing Actions at a Specific Time in the Past
Describing Actions at a Specific Time in the Past
Students describe actions they had completed before a specific time in the past. Objective of the WS is to provide controlled practice for using the past perfect tense in a personal and meaningful ...
rated by 5 teachers

Pre-Intermediate
Tale by Oscar Wilde
Tale by Oscar Wilde "The Selfish Giant"
This worksheet is useful for reading in the 6th form. It is interesting because of the language used by O.Wilde. It gives a chance for students to understand the difference between classical and m ...
rated by 9 teachers

Pre-Intermediate
Tenses Worksheet
Tenses Worksheet
I've created a test which consists of present, past and future tenses. It is suitable for pre-intermediate and intermediate students who would like to practise tenses. For some students it is ver ...
rated by 14 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
Past Perfect Forms
Past Perfect Forms
This worksheet consists of three forms of past perfect: positive, negative, and question. Each form has examples with different subjects. I think that this worksheet can give a clear picture to th ...
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Pre-Intermediate
Past Tenses
Past Tenses
I prepared 24 mixed questions to exercise past simple, past continuous and past perfect tenses. At the end of the worksheet, there is a joke which I took from one of my books. Wanted my worksheet ...
rated by 14 teachers

Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
Past Simple Vs Present Perfect and Past Perfect
Past Simple Vs Present Perfect and Past Perfect
There are two exercises in this worksheet. First one is about ´past simple and present perfect´ and the second one is about´past simple and past perfect´. This is a useful ...
rated by 18 teachers

Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
Song Worksheet: Rolling In The Deep by Adele
Song Worksheet: Rolling In The Deep by Adele
you can use it to make the sts practice their pronounciations and listening & note taking. You may also use this to teach a grammatical pattern but you may have to make changes. I've done this ...
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Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
Grammar Exercises [Tenses]
Grammar Exercises [Tenses]
This worksheet includes different exercises about past simple, present perfect simple, present perfect continuous and past simple. Enjoy! It also includes a question about for and since, and a que ...
rated by 12 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate
Perfect Tense Review Using a Resume (for Spanish speakers)
Perfect Tense Review Using a Resume (for Spanish speakers)
This activity was created for engineering students at a Mexican university. They are all FCE level and most are in their last year of studies. Using a (fake) resume of a recent graduate was a wa ...
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Upper Intermediate and Advanced Exam Level
Old Classic Children Games (I Used to Play...)
Old Classic Children Games (I Used to Play...)
Instructions: First show the NAME of the game, and then ask if they know(don't let they translate, try to make them explain, e.g: Hide and Seek is when you hide and other person has to find you) i ...
rated by 8 teachers

Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate and Advanced
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