Focus 2 Unit 8 test

Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or the Past Perfect forms of the verbs in brackets.

When I ................ (finish) washing, l ................... (have) breakfast.

He ........... (tell) me this before his brother ............... (go) out.

By the age of five, my younger brother ......... (learn) to read and write.

After the man ............ (deny) stealing the money, the police officer ................. (show) him a recording from the shop camera. The man ........... (be) silent.

By the time Greg ............. (leave) work, he .................. (come) up with a solution to the problem.

When I .......... (get) to their house, they ............ (already/have) lunch.

Read the sentences. In each sentence decide which activity happened first.

• Before the dentist came up to me

• I had opened my mouth

Read the sentences. In each sentence decide which activity happened first.

• I felt sick

• when I laid down

Read the sentences. In each sentence decide which activity happened first.

• Joe had come out in a rash

• by the time the doctor took him to hospital

Read the sentences. In each sentence decide which activity happened first.

• The concert began

• when we arrived at the concert hall