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

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.3 - Dressed for business for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs. Look at the underlined parts of each sentence and say what the difference in meaning is.

Answer

  1. a) When I saw him, he was already sitting at his desk and already working.; b) The desk was empty and the computer turned off and I saw the entire action. First he arrived, then he sat down at his desk and turned on the computer.
  2. a) I didn’t hear the entire conversation but I heard part of it.; b) I heard the entire conversation from beginning to end.
  3. a) He had started his lunch before I noticed him and he had not finished it when I walked past.; b) I watched him peel, eat and throw away the skins of three bananas.