Prime Time 4, Coursebook

Grammar Unit 2 Past perfect tense We use the past perfect tense when a past action was over BEFORE another action started. We use the past perfect tense for the 1 st action and the past simple tense for the 2 nd action. The film had started when I got to the cinema. 1 st action: film had started á á 2 nd action: I got to the cinema After we had eaten the fish, we started to feel ill. By the time we got to the theatre, it had already closed . Karen looked very tired because she had slept badly. I didn’t want to go to Vienna because I had been there before. The fish was gone . Had the cat eaten it? My friend didn’t reply to my message because he hadn’t seen it. Unit 3 Reporting what someone says in the present Present tense is often used to report a conversation that is still going on, for example if someone is having a phone call or is reading a letter aloud. In this case, the tense of the reported sentence doesn’t change. Reporting verbs: to say (that), to add (that), to explain to sb. (that), to tell sb. (that), to describe to sb. (that), to think (that), to point out (that) Direct speech “The weather here is great.” “We went to a national park yesterday.” “I ’d love to go there again.” “My English has improved a lot.”     Reported speech He says that the weather there is great. He tells us that they went to a national park yesterday. Tom says that he ’d love to go there again. He explains that his English has improved a lot. G1 " p. 17 G2 " p. 25 The weather here is great. Listen, Sarah! Tom says that the weather there is great. 136 Grammar one hundred and thirty-six Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv