Unit 3. People's background

GRAMMAR:
THE PAST PERFECT:
Ex1: They (live) ________ here before 2000.
FORM: (+) S + had + V3/ed
Ex2: She (already, have) _______________ breakfast before she (go) ______ to school
USES: The past perfect is used to describe the facts that had happened before a point of time or another past ones
Ex3: ____ they (live) _____ here before 2000?
- Yes, they had / No, they hadn’t
FORM: (?) Had + S + V3/ed ?
Ex4:They (not live) __________ here before 2000.
FORM: (-) S + had not (hadn’t) + V3/ed


had lived
had not lived
Had
lived
had already had
went
Task 1:
Use the verbs in brackets in the Past Perfect
(Work individual, then compare with the partner)
Vocabulary:
vase (n):
Turn off ≠ turn on (v):
Stove (n):
Dry ≠ wet (a):
Mess (n):
Break in (v):
Answer key:
had broken
had done
had met
had not turned off
had ever seen
bình, lọ
tắt ≠ bật
lò, bếp
tình trạng lộn xôn
đột nhập
khô ≠ ướt
Task 2:
Put the verbs in brackets in the Simple Past or Past Perfect:
(Work in pairs, then compare with the others)
had just finished / came
had seldom traveled / went
went / had already taken
Did you manage / had he gone / got
Had just got / phoned / had been


Task 3:
Questions:
1.What is the story about?

2.Who are in the story?


3.Why did the thieves run away?

4. Whose voice was it?


- George (the master of the house),
two thieves and a parrot.
- (It’s about) a robbery.
- Because they heard a voice behind them.
- The parrot ’s
Answer key:
1.sentence 1: had climbed  climbed
2.sentence 3: had turned  turned
3.sentence 5: had called out  called out
4.sentence 7: had heard  heard
5.sentence 9: went  had already gone
Choose the best answers:
1. He ___________ a teacher before 1945

2. I _______ to bed after I had finished my homework

3. My sister ________ at Tran Hung Dao school 3 years ago.

4. ____ they ______ off the lights before leaving class?.

5. What _____ you ______ yesterday?

B. was
C.
A. is

B. had gone
C. go
had been
went
A.
A. had studied
A. studies
studied
B.
A.
Had
…
turned
B. Did …turn
C. Do … turn
A. had …done
C. do …do
B.
did
…
do

- Do task 3 and the rest of the task 1
- Prepare TEST YOURSELF A
Identify the mistakes, then correct them:
As soon as they finished their classes, they went home
A B C D


2. Before she had watched TV, she had done her homework
A B C D


3. When I came to the party, every one wasn’t there.
A B C D

4. Before we left the class, we turned off the light.
A B C D

5. She lived here before she left for Dalat.
A B C D

had finished
watched
hadn’t been
had turned
had lived