Cover of the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.2 - Family ties for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at the underlined verbs in the extract from the radio programme. Which are Past Simple, Past Continuous and Past Perfect Simple?
  2. Look at the Active grammar box and match the tenses (1-3) with their correct uses (A-C).

Answer

a)

  • Past Simple → taught, went, showed
  • Past Continuous → was working, was feeling
  • Past Perfect Simple → had spent, had mastered

b)

  1. A
  2. C
  3. B