Стр.16-17 Unit 2 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 11 класс

Задача

Look at the illustrations, the title and the headings. In pairs, predict what each text might be about.
Read the texts and check your predictions. What is so special about these people?
Read the texts again. Are the statements true, false or not stated?
1. Fedor Konyukhov was the first to reach the Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Arctic Ocean.
2. Konyukhov crossed the Atlantic Ocean alone.
3. Lightning struck Roy Sullivan for the third time in 1970.
4. By 1973, Sullivan had survived five lightning strikes.
5. Mozart wrote his earliest symphonies when he was four.
6. Beethoven was twice the age of Mozart when he died.
Think Back! Write the names of the tenses and add two more examples of each from the texts.
Replace the verb with the two other tenses from Exercise 4. How does the meaning change?
Look at sentences a and b and answer questions 1 and 2.
a) Before his death, he’d been composing the Requiem. (Past Perfect Continuous)
b) Before his death, he’d composed 600 works. (Past Perfect)
1. Which form shows a completed action?
2. Which form shows an action that was not completed?
Match sentences a and b to sentences 1 and 2. How does the form change the meaning in sentences 1 and 2?
1) When I got home, I saw that he’d been painting the kitchen.
2) When I got home, I saw that he’d painted the kitchen.
a) It looked really fantastic and the colour was great.
b) There were cans of paint and brushes all over the place.
Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the Past Perfect Continuous of the phrases below: rain for a week; train for months; not work hard enough; not listen carefully; wait for an hour.
1. He lost his job because he __________.
2. The town was flooded because it __________.
3. They were furious when she arrived because they __________.
4. I didn’t understand what to do because I __________.
5. We won the match because we __________.
Complete the sentences with the verbs in brackets in the Past Perfect or the Past Perfect Continuous.
1. By the time he was twenty-five, he __________.
2. She __________ before she met him.
3. After they __________, they went out.
4. When I went to pay the bill, I realised that __________.
5. Just before the accident, he __________.
6. At the time of the wedding, they __________.
7. We __________ before we became friends.
8. I had already given up waiting when he phoned.
Complete each sentence with the Past Simple, the Past Continuous, the Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Continuous. Compare your sentences and discuss why you used each tense.
1. When I looked at my watch, I realised that …
2. Tom was upset because …

Подробный ответ

True
True
False
Not stated
True
Not stated

Tense	Examples from the texts
the Past Simple	set, reached, said, attributed, was, struck, burnt, caught, died
the Past Continuous	was driving, was fishing, was composing, was playing
the Past Perfect	had helped, had participated, had sailed, had played, had begun

When Mozart was six, he composed his earliest symphonies. — completed action in the past.

When Mozart was six, he was composing his earliest symphonies. — an action in progress at that time.

When Mozart was six, he had composed his earliest symphonies. — the action happened before another past moment.

Past Perfect shows a completed action.
Past Perfect Continuous shows an action that was not completed / was still in progress.

b — It shows that the kitchen was still in the process of being painted.
a — It shows that the kitchen had already been painted and the result was visible.

He lost his job because he hadn’t been working hard enough.
The town was flooded because it had been raining for a week.
They were furious when she arrived because they had been waiting for an hour.
I didn’t understand what to do because I hadn’t been listening carefully.
We won the match because we had been training for months.