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

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.1 - Heroes for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

Find the expressions from the box in the blog entry on page 36 and look at the sentences around them. What does each expression refer to?

Answer

a time before

  • until I actually saw it
  • for the previous 12 years

a time after

  • after that
  • he decided
  • since he saw the epic film from that point on

a specific time

  • in December 2009
  • at that time the technology wasn’t available

actions at the same time

  • throughout the whole film
  • during its release
  • while I was watching