We are excited that a real ______________ is coming to visit our class. It's not very often that we have the chance to meet someone so famous.

“We want to welcome our guest warmly, but let's not ______________ to the door. Someone might get hurt!” our teacher said.

Our visitor sings songs about his ________________ hometown - the same modest (=simple) little  town where our teacher grew up.

The _____________ they experienced then are hard for us to imagine today. Compared with the difficulties they face, we have it pretty easy.

In the United States, one of our ___________ freedoms is the right to free speech. Some people consider (=think) it is our most important right. 

People can get legal _____________ if they believe their rights have been taken away.

Our laws allow people to ____________ in public, even to support (=help) an unpopular case.

It's up to the courts to decide if the complaints are ____________ or phony (=fake). If a judge believes that a complaint is made up(=not true), he or she may throw it out.

The scientists made a _________ to publish the results of their experiments fully and honestly.

They will study whether a new medicine is _____________ for children. If it is found to be appropriate (=good), the medicine should be in drugstores next year

It's amazing how much equipment they needed to______________ into the laboratory! They definitely needed a big truck to deliver it all! 

The scientists often work late, but they stop when they get too ___________ to concentrate (=focus/think).

[I'd seen him before I walked into the store.] The past perfects (simple and progressive) are used to make it clear that one event happened before another in the past. 

We use the past perfect continuous (I'd been running....) to show that an event or action in the past was still continuing until the next action in the past. Past perfect simple form (I'd seen him...) emphasizes a finished action before another past event.

With the actual past perfect form (I'd seen him before...), we also need another verb form to show order. Which of the following do we need for the second action?

Yesterday, Sam looked exhausted (=really tired) because she had been working all night. In addition to the order of events, why do we use the past perfect here? 

Which is correct form and use for the past perfect simple?

[Write the past perfect simple in long form.]

Casey didn't want to move last year because she __________ (live) in Miami all her life.

[Write the past perfect simple in long form.]

David _________ (write) three books, and he was working on another one.

[Write the past perfect simple in long form.]

My eighteenth birthday was the worst day I ________ ever _______ (have).

[Write the past perfect simple in long form

Teresa wasn't at home. She ___________ (go) shopping.

[Write the past perfect simple in long form.]

David could get into the house because ________ (not / lose) his keys like last week.

[Write the past perfect simple in long form.]

She _____________ (not / work) at that restaurant before today.

[Write the past perfect simple in long form]

I wish I ______________ (not / stay) home before it began to rain.

[Write the question in the past perfect simple in long form.]

__________________ (you / clean up) the mess by the time they came home?

[NEW: Write the past perfect progressive in long form.]

Everything was wet. It ____________ (rain) for hours.

[Write the past perfect progressive in long form.]

He was a wonderful guitarist. He _________ (play) ever since he was a teenager.

[Write the past perfect progressive in long form.]

I ___________ (watch) that tv show every week since it started, but I missed the last episode.

[Write the past perfect progressive in long form.]

We _________ (not / feel) well, so we sent him away.

[Write the past perfect progressive in long form.]

Simon ______________ (not / expect) a positive answer when he got a job.

[Write the past perfect progressive in long form.]

The hikers _____________ (not / walk) long before they got lost.

[Write the question in the past perfect progressive in long form.]

_____________________ (she / complain) about Jim before she fired him?

Which is the most polite request?

How can you refuse help?

Example: Can you come to my party this Saturday?

Which is the least polite way to ask for permission?

Question: Would you mind helping me fix my car? 

How would you say “sure”?

If someone asked you the following right now, what form would you use to respond?

Could you loan me money?

Would you loan me money?