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Here is an amusing past perfect game to play in class.

The class is divided into


groups of four. Each group is given a set of situation cards, which they shuffle and
place face down in a pile on the desk. Students then take it in turns to pick up a card
and read the sentence aloud to the rest of the group, e.g. 'I slept in my car all night'.
The other students have to each come up with an explanation for the situation using
the past perfect, e.g. 'I slept in my car all night, because the car had broken down
and I was miles from home'. Each explanation the students give must be different.
Students receive one point for each believable explanation they can come up with.
Then the next student picks up a card and so on. This continues until all the cards
have been used. The student with the highest number of points at the end of the
game wins.

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