39229 past perfect

Past Perfect Tense
Last month Ben Taylor
visited his old school.
He found out that many things had changed.
Fill in the verbs in past perfect tense.
Mr Havers was no longer there. He __________
(leave) the school six years before.
When Ben was at the school, __________ (not build)
the games oom yet.
Miss Smith was now Mrs Smith, and Miss Brown, the
Maths teacher, __________ (become) Mrs Rossi.
They __________ (marry) othe teachers several
years before.
Ben’s lovely old wooden desk wasn’t there any more.
The school __________ (buy) new plastic ones.
His old classroom was no longer grey. It __________
(be) painted green.
Ben didn’t meet his old form teacher. She _____
_____ (die) in 2008.

Use the simple past or past pefect.

When the ship __________ (sink), they __________
(be) at sea for a month.
After Lenny __________ (see) a film about Captain Cook,
he __________ (decide) to read a book about im.
When Captain Scott __________ (reach) the South Pole
he __________ (find) that the explorer Amundsen
__________ (already be) there.
Anne __________ (never ride) on an elephant befoe she
__________ (go) to London Zoo.

When Mrs Carry finally __________ (get) to the bus
stop, the bus __________
(already leave).
When Mr Gilbert __________ (look) at the signpost, he
__________ (realize) that he __________ (take) the
wrong road.
Mrs Green __________ (arrive) at the post office at
12.30, but it __________ (close)
half an hour
earlier.

Match the right sentence parts
and make senseable sentences.

When Christopher Columbus died he
still didn’t realize ...
Some people say that Columbus didn’t
really discover America ...
After sailmakers had made a new
kind of sail, ...
In spite of what Columbus had told
his sailors, ...
After Amerigo Vespucci had sailed
south to Brazil, ...
Columbus knew that there must be
land to the west, ...
people in Euope understood what
Columbus had really done.
it was possible to sail against the
wind.

that he had found a new world.
after he had seen pieces of bamboo
on a beach in Portugal
because Leif Ericson had landed in
Canada in about 980.
after four weeks at sea there was
still no land in sight.