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Here the students are instructed to use the past perfect form, so it is not testing their ability to recognise when to use it but how to form it. It is still useful to remind students that we use the past perfect to emphasise that one action happened before another action in the past. You may like to have them underline in one colour the 'reference' point action expressed in the simple past tense.

Review the structure of the past perfect tense: had + past participle and check that the students know the past participle forms of the verbs in the brackets. Some teachers find it useful to start a word bank / reference table of common verbs and their simple past and past participle forms for the students to check when needed.

Have the students complete the worksheets then read their answers out loud to check together. They will see in some examples that the past perfect form is split by an adverb such as 'never' or 'previously'.