Grammar-2. Discussion(3m) Read the sentence and discuss the questions.

Before he volunteered to direct traffic, Timoteo had had lots of jobs. He was driving a lorry when he came off the road. Somehow he survived. No one asked him to do the job. He had been a miner and a solider.

Which tense refers to actions in the past? Which tense refers to an action in progress when another thing happened? Which tense refers to something which happened before something else?