At the airport. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense –Past Perfect or Simple Past.
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We use Past Perfect to talk about an action that happened before another action in the past. We use Past Perfect for the first action and Past Simple for the second action. |
TIME EXPRESSIONS:
when / by the time after / before /until /til |
PAST PERFECT
I /He/She/It You/We/They had V3 /ed |
PAST SIMPLE I /He/She/It You/We/They V2/ed |
When I arrived at the airport, my plane had already taken off. |
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luggage on the scales |
My parents ______ (book) our flight online by the time we ______ (come) to the airport. |
We ______ (arrive) at the airport 2 hours before our plane ____ (depart). |
Before we _____ (board) a plane, we _______(go) through different formalities. |
After we______ (come) to the airport we _____ (go) straight to the check-in counter/ desk. |
When we ______ (register ) our tickets at the check-in desk, the airport worker _____ (weigh) our luggage on the scales. |
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After the airport worker _______ (label) suitcases, he _____(send) them off into the hold of the airplane on a conveyor belt. |
Before we ____ (go) through passport control, the clerk _____ (check) our tickets and (give) everyone a boarding card. |
We _____ (can) not board a plane until we _______ (get) our boarding cards. |
When the clerk _______ (give) us our boarding cards, the other official ___ (check) our pasports at the pasport control. |
Before we ______ (board) our plane, we _______ (pass) through the security check.
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the departure lounge |
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We _____ (can) not walk through the security control until the security officer_________(check) our hand luggage with an x-ray machine for illegal items.
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When we _____ (pass) through a metal detector, we ___ (go) to the departure lounge.
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We _______ not (leave) the departure lounge til they _____ (announce) our flight. |
After we ______ (come) to the departure lounge, my parents _____ (buy) some goods in the duty free. |
When we ______ (hear) the announce- ment about our flight we _____ (find) the gate - the place where we ____ ( leave ) the airport building to board our plane. |