Past perfect is a tense which is mainly used to express and action or state which happens before another past tense, in this case expressed in past simple; i.e. if you have two consecutive actions that could be or not connected and you want to mark a sequence of events, just use past simple. However, if you want to connect both past actions and want to show that one happened before the other with a consecuence on the second one, the first one should be written in past perfect.
Dear students, being close to the end of this academic year in which we have been going through so many emotions, you should know by far who Elizabeth II is. 60 years ago, her father George VI died while she was in Kenya on February 2nd . We have also celebrated her real birthday on April 21st, although the official one will be late on on June 16th.
From February on, Diamond Jubilee's events have been taking places in different parts of the UK; for instance, on March 20th, she paid a visit to the Parliament at Westminster. On Saturday May 19th, the Armed Forces paid a tribute to HM in Windsor Castle. Here is the address to the Parliament, where the Queen thanked the nation, looked back on her reign, re-pledged her allegiance and praised her loyal family... and before her time was up, she even squeezed in a few jokes.
To check the full list of events taking place during this long weekend, just click The Diamond Jubilee web page, where you can revise her life as a queen, get information about past jubilees and even taking some interactive games.
To finish our class, we are going to check how much we know about the queen (including the teacher!!) on the following quiz.
Someone you should know by far or at least you have tasted one of his spectacular, amazing, savoury dishes is also a fan of this music. This person claims to know all the lyrics by heart. I won't have the chance to check it out as we are going to watch in Palma and the show is going be in Spanish. I am not doing a review by now, not even spoiling you the plot, in case you are one of those you still haven't seen it. Here you are the official web page of the spectacle taking place in London. I learnt this song when I was in kindergarden, long time ago. The version in English came to me later. Enjoy it
