Answers to workbook pages 34 and 35

Workbook pages 34 and 35
Exercise 1
1 b
2 a
3 a
4 b
5 a
Exercise 2
1 had …read
2 had left
3 had called
4 had begun
5 had won
6 had written

Exercise 3
1 had / had been
2 was / had changed
3 copied / had written
4 found / had thought
5 had managed / decided

Exercise 5
2 She had worked as a teacher before she became a headmistress.
3 She hadn’t painted pictures before she attended art school.
4 She had married Robert before she had two children.
5 She had driven a big car before she bought a small car.
6 She had lived in a flat before she rented a small house.

Exercise 6 (examples)
1 By the time I was six, I had learned to read.
2 Before nine o’clock this morning, I had taken a shower.
3 I didn’t leave until I had turned off all the lights.
4 As soon as I heard the new, I called my father.

Exercise 7
1 finished 2 was waiting 3 asked 4 cleaning 5 better than 6 used to use 7 put 8 had finished 9 stopped 10 have been watching 11 have ever seen

Error correction
1 I wasn’t hungry because I had already had lunch.
2 Although Sean was 28, he hadn’t learned how to drive yet.
3 The model had fallen asleep when you sketched him.
4 By the time my friends arrived, I had already gone to bed.
5 Mum had redecorated the house before we sold it.
6 Had you been to Africa before you started working?