Past Perfect Lesson Plan British Council. We can use the past perfect to show the order of two past events. So my car ran out of petrol this is an even taking place at the time of the story so past simple because my son hadn t filled it up the day before.
We use the past simple to tell the story and the past perfect to show things that happened earlier. The following sentence has the same meaning. Had past participle why do we use this tense and not the simple past in this example.
This lesson plan is to introduce or review ordering of events using the past perfect.
It doesn t matter in which order we say the two events. 60 90 minutes aims. Past perfect how is it formed. The burglars actions all happen before this point in the past how could we tell the same story using only the simple past.
