Keep healthy
Past Perfect Simple
Time linkers
Past Perfect Continuous
100

happening once every year is called ....

annually

100

They/ late/ miss/ the bus/ they/ are

They were late because they had missed the bus.

100
Make a sentence using when and the words below:

she / happy / she/ see / the results 

She was happy when she saw the results.

100

Cause and result. Please use Past Perfect Continuous :

she/ upset/ because/ she / argue/ with/ friend /her

She was upset because she had been arguing with her friend.

200

to experience pain, illness, or a difficult situation

suffer

200

I / not / recognise / her / because / she / change / a lot

I didn’t recognise her because she had changed a lot.


200

Use the time linker as soon as in a sentence:

I / call / her/ I / arrive

I called her as soon as I arrived.

200

The students/ talk / before/  come in / the teacher

The students had been talking before the teacher came in.

300

a serious disease in which abnormal cells grow uncontrollably in the body

cancer

300

I /  nervous / because / I / speak / in front of / a big class / before

I was nervous because I had never spoken in front of a big class before.

300

Make a sentence using then and the words below:

First/ we/ have lunch/ we/ go / for a walk 

First we had lunch, then we went for a walk.

300
Use Past Perfect Continuous:

They/ not / practice/ so / they/ perform/ badly

They hadn’t been practicing, so they performed badly

400

to not have enough of something

lack

400

lesson / start / by the time / the students / open / their books / already

By the time the lesson started, the students had already opened their books.

400

Make a sentence using while. Use the Past Continuous.

she/ listen to music/ do homework

She was listening to music while doing homework.

400

Use Past Perfect Continuous

I / wait/ 30 minutes/ when/ bus/ arrive/ finally

I had been waiting for 30 minutes when the bus finally arrived.

500

to successfully deal with or defeat a problem or difficulty

overcome

500

? /  ever / visit /  London /  that trip / before

Had you ever visited London before that trip?

500

Make a sentence using until. Use Past Simple tense.

she / not/ speak/ the teacher/ ask/ her

She didn’t speak until the teacher asked her.


500

? she/ work/ there/ for a long time/ before/ quit/ she

Had she been working there for a long time before she quit?