Interchange Level 3 - Unit 4

How many different sections are in the newspaper?

Features a newspaper may include are:

Weather news and forecasts
An advice column
Critic reviews of movies, plays, restaurants, etc.
Editorial opinions
A gossip column
Comic strips and other entertainment, such as crosswords, sudoku and horoscopes
A sports column or section
A humor column or section
A food column
Classified ads are commonly seen in local or small newspapers


Arts • Business • Entertainment • Environment • Fashion • Politics • Science • Sports • Tech • Trade • Traffic • Weather

Past Continuous vs Simple Past

Simple Past

The simple past expresses an action in the past taking place once, never, several times. It can also be used for actions taking place one after another or in the middle of another action.


Past Continuous
The past progressive puts emphasis on the course of an action in the past.



Part 2

Past Perfect

Past perfect

We use the past perfect simple to talk about what happened before a point in the past. It looks back from a point in the past to further in the past.

I hadn't known the bad news when I spoke to him.

I checked with the supplier and they still hadn't received the contract.
She had already told him before I got a chance to give him my version.
The company has started the year well but was badly hit by the postal strike.

The past perfect simple is often used when we report what people had said/thought/believed.

He told me they had already paid the bill.

He said he believed that John had moved to Italy.
I thought we had already decided on a name for this product.

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