Cover of the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 13 - Going through changes for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Think of a response to each of these sentences using the past perfect simple or continuous. Then work in pairs. Take turns asking the questions and giving reposes.

Answer

  1. He’d put on a lot of weight. / He’d been complaining about how unfit he’d been feeling.
  2. She’d had her purse stolen. / She’d spent it all. She’d been gambling. / She’d been going out to fancy restaurants and she’d been spending lots of money on clothes.
  3. They’d always wanted to. / They’d been talking about it for ages and in the end they just decided to give it a go. A friend of theirs had moved there and she’d been telling them how amazing it was.
  4. He’d just lost interest in the game. / He’d been suffering from injuries far too frequently. / He hadn’t been enjoying it for a while.
  5. I’d not been working much and I’d started defaulting on the mortgage payments. / I’d been thinking about moving somewhere else for a while and in the end I just decided.