Past Perfect sentence completion games

Past Perfect sentence completion games

 

Past Perfect sentence completion bluffing game

Complete the sentence below your partner chooses as fast as possible, using your imagination if you can’t quickly think of a true personal sentence. After follow-up questions, they will guess if your sentence was true or false. Then take turns doing the same.

Past Perfect things in common sentence completion challenge

Ask about your partner and tell them about yourself to be able to fill the gaps below with things that are true for both of you.

When your teacher stops you, ask about any sentences below which you weren’t sure how to complete, working together to complete it each time, with true information if possible.

Past Perfect key words

Do the same activity or the other activity above, but this time make your own sentences with these key words:

• almost
• already
• arrived
• because
• before
• by
• by the time
• chose
• completely
• finished
• first
• given up
• had
• he
• heard
• I’d
• just
• last
• left
• met
• my present…/ my current…
• never
• she
• since
• started
• the end of
• thought/ imagined
• … times
• when

Past Perfect sentences to complete

I’d (almost) given up (hope) when __________________________________________.

The last time that I __________________, I hadn’t since _______________________.

Before I joined this class, I had ___________________________________________.

When I joined this class, I hadn’t _________________ since ___________________.

Before I chose what to study (at university), I had ____________________________.

Before I came to my present company, I had heard that _______________________ ___________________________________________________________________.

Before I started working for my current company, I had thought that _____________________________________________________, but it wasn’t true.

By the time I left university, ___________________________ more than 100 times.

By the time I left this house this morning, __________________________________.

By the end of last week, _______________________________________________.

I didn’t need to _______________________, because __________________________ already _______________________________________________________________.

I had already ____________________ when I arrived ___________________________ but it didn’t help because __________________________________________________.

When I first met my future (girl-/ boy-/ best) friend, _______ just _________________.

When I first met ______________________, _________________________________.

I had never __________________ when I first ________________________________.

I had (already/ just) left ______________________ when ____________________.