Now that you have your own interlinear rendering, and have a pretty good picture of the Greek for this verse from my lecture, it is time to start trying to come up with your own proper translation.
Complete your first draft before looking at anybody else's translation.
Now that you have roughed out your own proper translation, you may take a look at some comparison versions. These are all pitched at the general level I want you to aim for:
For the sake of the learning experience, I want you to aim to get your proper translation into idiomatic, Canadian Standard English.
Think about the anchor people of the CBC National News, not King James.
WWCD (What would the CBC do?): If the CBC National News would never use the wording of your proper translation, you need to go back to the drawing board to try again.
This recent study from Johns Hopkins University:
https://www.sciencealert.com/handwriting-is-better-than-typing-when-learning-to-read-study-finds
...suggests that your language acquisition will come significantly faster, and be more thorough, if you write out the text of Acts 1:9-11 by hand onto a blank manuscript. This is much better than just staring at Greek on your computer screen.
Download and print a . Copy out the Greek of the verses on the lines, and just below it, your proper translation.
Since this is not a word-for-word, interlinear rendering, but a proper translation, likely your translation will not line up exactly with the Greek above the line. That is OK. What you want is to be able to come back to this a year or two from now, look at it and be able to compare your proper translation with the Greek original, and see how they connect.
It is easy to get confused on just who is doing the action in Acts 1:7. Is Jesus the one speaking, answering a question, or are the disciples answering a question?
They are all there in these verses. Who is doing the action?
To answer this question, I will start by introducing basic grammar concepts as they relate to English verbs in the next lesson: Lesson 7.