Cover of the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2.2 - What really happened? for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the summary. Find and underline examples of the past simple and the past continuous and answer the questions.
  2. Read the conclusion and answer the questions.
  3. Underline the correct alternative to complete the rule.

Answer

a)

  • past simple → shot
  • past continuous → were preparing; was riding
  1. past simple
  2. past continuous

b)

  1. agreed; concluded
  2. had killed; had been
  3. past perfect

c)

before the past time event we are talking about