Year 5 · SPaG · Verb tenses and the perfect form
Year 5 using the past perfect form worksheet and PowerPoint
To use the past perfect form to show that one past action happened before another.
Using the past perfect
To make the past perfect, put had before the past participle. Use it for the action that happened first.
| simple past → past perfect | She finished. → She had finished. |
|---|---|
| in a sentence | She had finished her work before the bell rang. |
| irregular verbs | He had taken, they had gone, I had said |
Examples
- The dog had eaten the cake before we came in.
- We had built a den before it rained.
Key words
- past perfect
- had + past participle
- past participle
- the verb form used after has, have and had
- before
- the past perfect is the action that came first
- irregular verb
- a verb that does not just add -ed
What is on the worksheet
Every sheet for this lesson has a short teaching box and 12 questions that get gradually harder: 8 fluency questions, then 4 reasoning questions that ask pupils to explain or choose. A writing challenge follows. The questions use the same styles as the key stage 2 grammar and punctuation test (circle, underline, tick, fill the gap, add punctuation, rewrite, explain). They are written for this website, not copied from past papers.
All the answers are on the last page of the same editable Word file. New questions are made every time, so you can print a different sheet for every group or for homework. The same sheet code always gives the same sheet.
Writing challenge: Write six sentences that each tell two things that happened in the past. Use the past perfect for the one that happened first.
Pupil target: I can use the past perfect.
The PowerPoint
A 20-slide lesson deck for the same lesson: a starter that revisits earlier learning, key words, an I do and a You do question on each slide with a countdown timer, answers that appear one click at a time, and a challenge. Download the using the past perfect form PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 17 of 43 in the Year 5 SPaG scheme, in the block “Verb tenses and the perfect form”.
Other lessons in this block
- Past or present
- The present perfect form
- Recognising the past perfect form
- Recognising the future perfect form
- Using the future perfect form
- Recognising the perfect form in sentences
- Using the perfect form in sentences
- Which tense?
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