Transcript Past Perfect

Practical exercises for students
Police Dog Catches Burglars
(from the newspaper)
Three burglars were arrested yesterday. They were waiting in a bus shelter
five miles from the scene of their crime. They had stolen some silver
from an antique shop, had hidden everything in a nearby wood and were
waiting for a bus to go home.
But they had not thought about the determination of police constable Jane
Bashsam and her dog, Rex. PC Basham was working at the local police
station when she received a call about a break-in. When she got there,
she found footprints in the snow.
Her dog led her to a car park and then into a wood. There they found the
silver which the burglars had planned to collect later. Rex then
continued across the fields, over the railway line and through a river.
They followed the river and finally arrived in the village of Brimfield. Rex
took PC Basham straight to the shelter where the three men were sitting
in the cold. She called for help and the men were arrested and charged
with theft.
Use the key words to complete the summary
antique shop, break-in, burglars, bus
shelter, fields, footprints, police
constable, police dog, railway line, river,
silver, wood
First, the burglars stole some (1)……… from an
(2)……… . When a (3)………….found out about the
(4)…………, she went to the shop and saw
(5)…………in the snow. She started to follow them
with her (6)………… After that, they found the silver
hidden in a (7)…………. . Next, they went across
some (8)……….., over a (9)………and through a
(10)…………. . In the end, they found the
(11)…………. Sitting in a (12)……………..!
Past Perfect
Use
We use Past Perfect to talk about an event or situation in the past which
happened before other past events.
• The police arrested man who had broken into a
jeweller’s shop.
We use Past Perfect and the Past Simple in one sentence, to show the
order of past events. Compare the following sentences:
• When I arrived, she left. (I arrived and the she
left.)
• When I arrived, she had left. (She left before I
arrived.)
The Past Perfect is formed in this way
Subject + had + the third form of the
verb
I had met him before.
Had Tom begun his project before anyone else did?
They hadn’t moved their house earlier.
Complete the sentences with
hadn’t, had, planned and hidden.
They had (1) ……… to collect the silver later.
Had they (2)………..to collect the silver later?
They had (3)………the silver in a nearby wood.
They (4)………(5)………..the silver in a nearby wood.
(6)……..they (7)…………..the silver in a nearby wood?
Put the verbs in the Past Perfect
• Nobody believed him because he …………. (lie) before.
• They weren’t surprised at all. ……….. (hear) the news earlier?
• She was very hungry; she ………… (not, eat) breakfast or
lunch.
• Before he went sleep he ………….. (drink) a cup of hot milk.
• The police arrested two men who …………. (break) into a
jeweller’s shop.