Cover of the textbook Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.1 - Fantastic film trips for the textbook Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at sentences a)-c) and answer the questions.
  2. Underline the correct alternative to complete the rules.
  3. Find one more example of the past simple and the past continuous in the same sentence in your text.

Answer

a)

  1. past continuous → were sailing; was living; was raining; past simple → crashed; wrote; decided
  2. a) sail; b) live; c) rain
  3. a) sail; b) live; c) rain
  4. background information → a) were sailing; b) was living; c) was raining; main events → a) crashed; b) wrote; c) decided

b)

  1. past continuous
  2. past simple

c)

  • Kon-Tiki → While others were discussing the theory, Heyerdahl decided to test it.
  • Into the Wild → While he was travelling, he met several people ...
  • Rabbit-Proof Fence → ... while they were walking, they saw the 'rabbit-proof fence' …