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• Past Simple or Past Perfect
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. a B 33 Listen to these sentences. Notice the difference
between the Past Simple and the Past Perfect.
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• 1 I finished work. I'd finished work .
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• 3 My parents bought it. My parents had bought it.
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• 4 Nick worked there. Nick had worked there .
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• b &34 Listen to six pairs of sentences. Which do you
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a Read about the swimmer Martin Strei. What is his
connection to Ed Stafford?

b Read about Martin Strei again. Put the verbs in brackets
in the Past Simple or Past Perfect.

c &35 Listen and check your answers.

Martin Strel - or Big River Man, as he is often called - is
a long-distance swimmer from Slovenia. Martin 1 taught
(teach) himself to swim when he was six, and in 1997 he
2 (become) the first man to swim from Africa
B a2 PRONUNCIATION Listen and practise. to Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Seven people
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Copy the stress, weak forms and contractions. 3 (already try) to complete this swim without
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Luke had / dd/ gone back to l td/ the UK -+ Cho success. In 2002 Strel 4 (swim) the length of
joi ned the expedition after Luke had / dd/ gone the Mississippi, which s (take) him 68 days.
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back to / td/ the UK. The year before that he (break) the world
non-stop record by swimming for 84 hours and 10 minutes
a Put the verbs in brackets in the Past Perfect without stopping. But he's probably best known as the man
or Past Simple. who 7 (swim) the length of the Amazon in

1 Nobody had walked (walk) the Amazon 2007, something nobody 8 (ever do) before.
before Ed Stafford. He 9 (travel) 5,268 km and 10 _____
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2 We (not think) of going to (swim) for over 10 hours a day. By the time he 11 _____
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Brazil until we (hear) about Ed (arrive) at Belem, in Brazil, he 12 (be) in the
Stafford's adventure. water for 66 days. He now runs an adventure swimming holiday
3 I (go) to the shop to get some company with his son in Slovenia.
bread, but they (sell out).
4 The meeting (finish) by the
time I __ (get) there.
5 (invite) Florence to dinner,
but she (already arrange) to do
something else.

6 When I (get) to the airport, I
realised that I (forget) my passport.
7 Erica (ask) me to go to Spain
with her, but I (already book)
a holiday in Italy.
a I (see) Trevor Robertson
when I __ _ (be) in town yesterday. Get ready ... Get it right!
I (not see) him for ten years!
• Work in groups. Look at p114.
b Work in pairs. Compare answers.
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