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GRAMMAR: ANIMALS
VOCABULARY: PAST PERFECT
Speaking

• What is your favorite animal?

• Do you have a pet? If you don't have a pet, why not?
• Do you know someone who owns an unusual pet?
• Have you ever been on a farm? What animals did you see there?
• Do you think it is right to keep wild animals in a zoo?
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WHALE SPIDER
• Definition: A mammal who lives • Definition: An insect with eight
on the sea. legs.
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TIGER CAMEL
• Definition: The biggest feline • Definition: An animal who lives
animal. in hot and arid places.
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Mosquito Gorilla
• Definition: An insect that bites • Definition: The biggest monkey
you and you can get a virus such in the world.
as Zika or dengue.
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Parrot Bee
• Definition: A type of bird who • Definition: An insect that
can imitate human voice. produces honey.
Jambo’s story
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-utHIAJTRbg (2.16 min)
• Reading p. 118
GRAMMAR: Past perfect
Verb in past
had participle
• Example:
• You were walking on the street. A thief had stolen your phone.
Ten minutes later you noticed that you lost your phone.

• What happened first?

GRAMMAR: Past perfect For an action in the past before
another action in the past.
• Example:
• They had bought a house before they painted.
• What happened first?
• Had they bought a house before they painted it?

had Verb in past

participle

• Yes, they had.

GRAMMAR: Past tenses
• Simple past: Use the past simple to talk about things that are in
the past and finished.
• Example: I moved to this house in 2004.

• Past perfect: Use the past perfect to refer to an earlier event in

the past.
• Example: I went to the supermarket to buy loads of food, but
I didn’t realize you’d done the shopping this morning.
 Which verb form describes the
GRAMMAR: earlier action or event?

1. After Chris had texted me, I made other appointments for today.
2. She said she’d received it.
3. I was sure I’d circled the plant in the garden centre catalogue.
4. By the time I got to the office, the catalogue had disappeared.
5. I knew something had gone wrong but I couldn`t imagine what.
6. I assumed it had spread through your whole office.

had Verb in past

participle
GRAMMAR: Past Perfect
I I
You You
He He
She had eaten before the taxi arrived. Had She eaten before the taxi arrived ?
It ‘d It
We We
They They

I I I
You You You
He He He
She had not eaten before the taxi arrived. Yes, She had. No, She had not.
It It It
We We We
They They They
GRAMMAR: PRACTICE
arrived
1. When we __________________ in Spain the airport management told us that
had lost
they __________________ our luggage. (ARRIVE, LOSE)
had had
2. After I _______________ started to feel sick.
a large meal, I _____________
(HAVE, START)
had spent
3. The shoes were very clean because I __________________ hours cleaning
them. (SPEND)
wasn´t
4. It __________________ had been
his first trip to India. He __________________ there
several times before. (NOT BE, BE)
had bought
5. My neighbour told me that she __________________ a new car a month
before. (BUY)
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went
1. Yesterday I __________________ downtown to see Peter. I
had not met
__________________ him for months. (GO, NOT MEET)
saw
2. I __________________ Matrix for the first time yesterday. I
had never seen
__________________ it before. (SEE, NEVER SEE)
hadn´t known him for very long when she
3. She __________________
decided
__________________ to get married. (NOT KNOW, DECIDE)
had repaired
4. .As soon as he __________________ the old clock on the wall it
broke
__________________ again. (REPAIR, BREAK)
had not done
5. The teacher asked me why I __________________ my homework.
(NOT DO)