Tense is used to establish a situation at the beginning of a story we also use past perfect to establish the back story don't we so you know i'd finished university and i was working in a pub and i wasn't really going anywhere so i decided to become an english teacher. When i arrived at the party everybody had left that means when i arrived no one was there because they left earlier so when i arrived they had left okay. We've got um when i arrived and then everyone went oh gosh right uh sorry we better no we better be goingUm nice to meet you Luke anyway bye helloEverybody hiYeah you know me i'm Luke from Luke's English podcast i'm