The key answer of exercise 7

1

1. past simple, past perfect simple
2. past simple, past perfect simple
3. past simple, ’d = would (she said she would + verb)
4. past simple, ’d = would (he kept saying he would be OK)
5. past simple, past perfect, past simple
6. past simple, past continuous
7. past simple, be going to + verb

2

1. Where am I? What’s happened?
2. Have we met somewhere before?
3. I’ll take him to the nearest hospital.
4. I’ll be OK. I’ll be fine.
5. We’ve given him an X-ray. There is nothing broken.
6. He needs to stay here a bit longer. He’s waiting to have a few stitches.
7. I’m going to need to buy a new bike now.

3

They go ‘back’ one tense, so present perfect becomes past perfect, past simple becomes past perfect, will becomes would and can becomes could.

4

It keeps the present tense because it’s still true now.

5

a and b; in reported questions, use normal sentence order, not inverted question word order.