ontheroadtosuccess.4t.com

A Resourceful Site for The Algerian Secondary School English Teachers

 ANSWER KEYS SYNTAX

PAST TENSES

☺ E ☺Past Simple                                                                                            

   1- Hakim  flew to Glasgow, Scotland, last week.

   2- Houari Boumediene  governed Algeria from 1965 till he  died in 1978.

   3- Did Alexander Graham Bell   invent  the telephone  in 1876 ?

   4- Karima’s father taught her how to drive when she was 17.

   5- My  mother was cooking dinner when  someone  rang the bell.

   6- Ali did not get up early yesterday because he had stayed up late.

   7- After he had had a shower, my little brother went to bed.

   8- Did Ibn-Khaldoun  die  in  Cairo, Egypt, in 1406 ?

   9- Last weekend, we visited  the marvellous caves of Jijel.

  10- Emir Abed El Kader fought  the French colonists from 1832 to 1847.

 ☺ F ☺ PAST PERFECT                                            

  1- As soon as he had graduated  he emigrated to Canada .

  2- She went to bed  after the TV film had finished . 

  3- After the Policemen  had investigated  the case of the little boy  they found him.

  4-  Once Amir  had read  the newspaper he drank  his morning coffee.

  5-  Once he had  got  a degree  from university  he started working in a school.

  6-  The Browns had had  a phone and a car before they moved to the new house.

  7-  Amira did not go  to school because she had  been sick.

8-       Only 651 people had boarded  into the lifeboats when the Titanic sank.

9-       Because he had succeeded in his Bac exam his parents offered him a multimedia.

 10- When Shahra had collapsed we phoned for an ambulance.

 ☺ G ☺ PAST CONTINUOUS                                                   

1- Mario was working in a restaurant while I was living in London.

  2- Chaouki  was having  a  bath when the light went out.

  3- We met  when I  was  working in a computer shop.   

  4- Helen broke her leg while she was skiing in Switzerland.

 5-  Mrs Robinson was swimming while her husband was fishing.

  6- Mr Reuter  fell  while he was walking through muddy waters.

  7- My father was reading a magazine while my mother was watching  TV.

  8-      We  saw  a flash of light while we were looking out the window.

  9-  I  was listening to music while I was waiting for my friend to arrive.

  10-  I  was playing  tennis when it started raining.

☺ H ☺  PAST TENSES

   1- Samira  discovered that Reda had lied to her.

  2- After Johnny had  finished  reading he  put out the light.

  3- She became  famous when she had appeared on a TV  program.

  4- The students were  acting  a play while  their parents were watching them.

  5- Harry was gardening  when his son fell from the bicycle.

  6- I did not  go to New-York last summer because I had been ill.

  7- Sir Alexander Fleming, the father of penicillin, won  a Nobel Prize in 1945.

   8- We had needed some money.  So, we sold our car.

  9-  Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492.

 10- Louis Pasteur, a great biologist, was born  at Dole, France, in 1822.