Grammar and usage

　　Teaching Aims:

　　Learn the past perfect tense

　　Compare the use of the past tense , the present perfect and the past perfect

　　Teaching Points:

　　How to use the past perfect tense.

　　Teaching Methods:

　　1 Inductive method

　　2 Comparative method

　　Teaching Aids:

　　1 a multimedia

　　2 a blackboard

　　Teaching Procedures:

　　Step 1 Revision Guessing game

Do you know any job words? Use your body language to show your job and ask your partner to guess.

　　Step 2 Structure

　　Had done/had been done

The past perfect tense is often used with the simple past tense. If one action happens before another in the past, the past perfect tense is used.

　　Compare the simple past and The past perfect tense

　　What is The past perfect tense

　　More examples

　　By the end of last year, I _______for 15 years.

　　When I came back home, my favourite TV program __________.

　　He was not worried at all. He ____________ preparations.

The past perfect tense used in indirect speech