Former Racing Champion Alan Jones Dies
The Australian driver won the Formula 1 title in 1980.
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In this lesson: Identify Jones’s championship team and sequence his later television work.
Grammar in this story: After + -ing for sequence
After leaving Formula 1 racing
“After” followed by an -ing form places that activity before the main action. Example: “After checking the address, we left.”
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Name the team Jones drove for when he became champion and say how many Formula 1 races he won in his career.
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He was driving for Williams, and he won 12 Formula 1 races in his career.
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