Focus 2- Past Perfect

The patient had left the health centre when the receptionist arrived.

• The receptionist didn't see the patient.

• The receptionist saw the patient.

When Rodney broke his arm, he grew a beard.

• He broke his arm when he didn't have a beard.

• He broke his arm when he had a beard.

Just before the plane had landed I began to feel ill.

• I began to feel ill on the ground.

• I began to feel ill while flying.

By the time we got to the cinema, I had got a headache.

• My headache started after we arrived at the cinema.

• My headache started before we arrived at the cinema.

I stopped eating cake when I got a stomachache.

• My stomachache started after eating the cake.

• My stomachache started while I was eating the cake.

Ida sat down when she started to feel dizzy.

• Ida sat down after she started to feel dizzy.

• Ida sat down before she started to feel dizzy.

By the time the ambulance _____ , the woman _____ bleeding.

• arrives / will stop

• arrived / stopped

• had arrived / was stopped

• arrived / had stopped

Hannah's temperature _____ (drop) after she ____ (take) the medicine.

Write ONLY the words for the blanks in order.

I ___ (forget) to take my medicine, so I ___ (begin) to feel dizzy.

• had forgotten / began

• forgot / began

• have forgot / began

• forgot / had begun

Before I ___ (buy) a new pair of glasses I ____ (have) my eyes tested at the optician's.

• bought / had

• bought / had had

• had bought / had had

• buy / have had