2. • 4
• Speaking practice to make a small talk
• Identify structure and use of the Past
Perfect tense to talk about past events that
happened before other past events.
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3. 4
Make Small
Talk
Small talk
• Imagine you find a colleague at
the elevator. Have a small talk
with your classmate. Don’t forget
to use question tags.
Activity: Speaking practice. Follow the task in pairs
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4. Past Perfect Tense
Look at Steve Jobs life…
1955 1973 1974 1984
He was adopted. He worked at ATARI.
He spent his time The first Macintosh
at HP. appeared.
Describe a
busy
schedule
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5. 4
Describe a
busy
schedule
Look at these sentences...
• Clara and Paul had adopted Steve before
he spent his time in HP.
• The first Macintosh appeared after he
had worked in ATARI.
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6. 4
Past Perfect
• We use the past perfect to talk about
situations that happened before another past
action.
HAD verb in past
participle.Describe a
busy
schedule
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7. 4
Past Perfect VS Past Simple
OPast Simple OPast Perfect
Finished actions
in a defined time
in the past.
Past action before
another past action.
Describe a
busy
schedule
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