THE GREY: Present and Past, Perfect and Progressive

Discuss:

Have you ever been in a survival situation? Where would be the worst place to land in a plane crash (sea,

forest, desert?) If you could only bring one thing with you to survive a crash, what

would it be? Why?

Directions: Watch the movie and write response sentence in the correct tense for each situation:

Example: By the time they crashed, the men had said goodbye to their families.Past Perfect-finished when another event happened in the past (had +past participle)

By the time the men woke up from the crash,

Past Perfect Progressive- Still happening when another event happened(had +been + verb +ing)

What had the men been doing when they heard the wolves howling?

Present PerfectProgressive- Started in the past, still happening/usually has a time duration (have +been+ verb+ing)

By the time the wolves attack them,

Present Perfect(have +past participle)

By the end of the story what has happened? (Use the words: wolves, man, friends, the plane, etc.)

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