The document discusses timelines and the order of past events. It provides an example timeline showing that the person went to school at 6:30 am and ate breakfast at 7:00 am. This demonstrates that one event, eating breakfast, happened before the other event, going to school. The document explains how to determine and describe the sequence of events that took place in the past using terms like "first", "second", "before", and "after".

1. Look at the timeline below
6.30 am 7.00 am
I went to schoolI ate a big breakfast
What happened first? What happened second?
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Notice that both activities happened in the past, but one
activity happened before the other.

2. Look at the timeline below
6.30 am 7.00 am
I went to schoolI ate a big breakfast
First, I ate breakfast.
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Second, I went to school.

3. Look at the timeline below
6.30 am 7.00 am
I went to schoolI ate a big breakfast
So I can say
Before I went to school, I had eaten a big breakfast.
After I had eaten breakfast, I went to school.
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