Cover of the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 9

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 11 - Natural resources for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Look at these sentences from the talk. Answer the questions below.

Answer

  1. a past simple (was), b present simple (are), d present perfect (have been)
  2. be + past participle
  3. a; by
  4. b – government / police / army – not totally clear; c – by the mining company; d by companies / investors – we don’t really know.