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The key answer of exercise 7

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

  1. Complete the examples (1-4) in the Active grammar box with the correct form of the verbs start, think, look and hear.
  2. -
  3. Complete rules A and B with Past Perfect Simple and Past Perfect Continuous.
  4. Work in pairs and look again at examples 1-4. Answer the questions.

Answer

a)

  1. had heard
  2. had started
  3. had been looking
  4. had been thinking

c)

  1. Past Perfect Simple
  2. Past Perfect Continuous

d)

Question 1

  • seeing the film Avatar (before I saw it)
  • 2009
  • the release of the film Avatar (before it came out)
  • the point when Cameron began to work on the script for the film (before he started writing the script)

Question 2 → sentence 4