Past Perfect Tense - Full Lesson Presentation & Activities!

A full lesson presentation (PowerPoint) teaching how to use the past perfect tense.

The past perfect tense is made from the word ‘had’ plus the past participle of the verb. It is used to:

• Set the scene and explain what happened before a story or event took place,
• Describe the earlier of two events that happened in the past (in such cases, it is usually joined to a clause in past simple using a conjunction)

This lesson presentation on the past perfect tense includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity
√ Review of prior learning (examining the other tenses and why we use them)
√ Teaching input/ information slides (explaining how to identify and construct sentences in past perfect tense)
√ Multiple consolidation activities (fill in the blanks, spot the mistakes, change the sentences to past perfect tense etc.)
√ Independent activities and application tasks (3 levels of differentiation)
√ Differentiated support sheets for those who need them
√ Extension of learning - looking at why we use the past perfect tense
√ Speaking and listening tasks/ reasoning questions
√ Writing/ Homework challenge - past perfect tense writing task
√ Plenary activity - AOL

The lesson covers the following:

• Review of past simple, past continuous, present simple and present continuous tenses and why we use them
• The difference between present perfect and past perfect tense
• Regular and irregular verbs in their past participle form
• Base tense, past simple and past participle verb forms
• How to construct sentences in past perfect tense
• Why we use the past perfect tense (to set the scene before decribing a story or event and to describe the earlier of two events that happened in the past)

PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.

This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.