Cover of the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 13 - Life-changing events (Part 1) for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Workbook with authors Amanda Maris from National Geographic Learning

Question

Look at the information about key events in William's life. Write sentences using the verbs and time expressions in brackets.

Answer

  1. When William started university, he'd already been travelling for a year.
  2. He gave up the course after he had been studying for only two years.
  3. Before he started working in catering, he had been unemployed for six months.
  4. By the time he set up his business, he had been working in catering for five years.
  5. By the time he married Lucy, they had already known each other for eight years.
  6. He set up his own business ten years after he had left school.