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Speaking Strategy
Talking about an Activity before another Activity in the Past.
A. We use the ‘past perfect tense’ to talk about an event that happened
before another event in the past.
OK, Tell me about the picnic. What did you do?
That was great, dad. We played volleyball and had a barbecue.
Oh, come on! Did you do anything fun?
Yeah, it was all fun. Before we played volleyball, we had taken
some photographs.
Great! Did you do anything in the afternoon?
Oh, something interesting! After we had eaten lunch, we flew
our kites. That was fantastic because we had made the kites
ourselves!
You may use the following structures to talk about two activities in the 3
past. LESSON
Before I , I had
After I had , I
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