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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Make Small
Talk
Activity: Speaking practice. Follow the task in pairs
Small talk
• Imagine you find a colleague at
the elevator. Have a small talk
with your classmate. Don’t forget
to use question tags.
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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...
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• 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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Past Perfect
• We use the past perfect to talk about
situations that happened before another past
action.
HAD verb in past
participleDescribe a .
busy
schedule
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7. 4
Past Perfect VS Past Simple
O Past Simple O Past Perfect
Finished actions
Past action before
in the past.
another past
action. Describe a
busy
schedule
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