TITLE: PAST PERFECT CONTINOUS

ACTItfIDADES DE REFERENCIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88L7ErhfLFQ
WATCH THE INTRODUCTION VIDEO

MOTItfACIÓN
ANSWER THE QUESTION, MARK THE CORRECT OPTION

1. To work the past perfect continous we use the

auxiliary…?

a) ING-

b) HAD

c) HAS

2. To work the past perfect continous we use the verb

in…?

a) PAST SIMPLE FORM + ING

b) PAST PARTICIPLE FORM + ING

c) PRESENT PARTICIPLE FORM + ING

DESARROLLO
WE HAD BEEN TRYING

USE

The past perfect continous for activities that

started in the past, but before something else in
the past.

STRUCTURE
EXAMPLE:
1. Had you been waiting long before the taxi
arrived?

2. We had been trying to open the door for five

minutes when Jane found her key.
3. It had been raining hard for several hours and
the streets were very wet.

4. Her friends had been thinking of calling the police when she
walked in.
HOMEWORK
MAKE THE PAST PERFECT CONTINOUS

1. They (wait) had been waiting at the station for 90

minutes when the train finally arrived.

2. We (look for) had been looking for her ring for

two hours and then we found it in the bathroom.

3. I (not / walk) hadn´t been walking for a long time,

when it suddenly began to rain.

4. How long (learn / she) she had been learning English

before she went to London?

5. He (drive) had been driving less than an hour when he

ran out of petrol.
METACOGNICIÓN

What did you learn today?

Learn to day past perfect continous
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Why is it important?
to know how to talk about an action that
happened in the past
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