Стр.27 Unit 2 Преступление ГДЗ Комарова Ларионова 8 класс
Grammar 2 Past simple and past continuous 1 Read the examples and answer the questions. 1 Which was longer, action a or b?
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Grammar 2
Past simple and past continuous
1 Read the examples and answer the questions.
1 Which was longer, action a or b?
2 Which tense usually comes after while?
past simple and past continuous
We often use the past continuous and past simple in the same sentence.
a) He was waiting for a train.
b) He heard a voice.
He was waiting for a train when he heard a voice.
= While he was waiting for a train, he heard a voice.
2 Choose the correct words.
1 They took CCTV pictures of the shoplifter while she was stealing CDs.
2 While the hackers were creating a new virus, the FBI began an investigation.
3 The robbers were trying to steal an enormous diamond when the police arrived.
4 He was walking in the forest when he found a gun.
5 While the vandals were breaking windows, someone called the police.
6 Thieves entered the house while everyone was sleeping.
3 Complete the questions with the past simple or past continuous form of the verbs in brackets.
1 What subject were you studying when school finished yesterday?
2 What was your mum doing when you got up this morning?
3 What were you wearing when you had breakfast today?
4 Did you meet your friends while you were coming to school this morning?
5 What were you doing when your English teacher arrived in the classroom?
6 Did you use a computer while you were doing your homework last weekend?
4 Your wire Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions in exercise 3.
Book corner
Unit grammar check
1 Choose the correct answers to complete the text.
Sherlock Holmes Solves Another Crime!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish crime writer. He (1) wrote 56 shortstories and four novels. Sherlock Holmes was his famous fictional detective. He (2) worked with his assistant Dr Watson ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ is about the mysterious death of Sir Charles Basken/ille. When they (3) was finding his body, they also discovered the footprints of an enormous dog. Some local people (4) told Sherlock Holmes stories about this horrible hound of the Baskervilles.
But Sherlock Holmes (5) didn’t believe them, while he and Dr Watson (6) were investigating the crime, they (7) began to suspect that there was another explanation.
(8) Did the hound really kill Sir Charles? Or was there a human murderer?
2 (20) Listen and check.
The Hound of the
Baskervilles by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle