Lesson 2

Listening

1. Listen to the news stories and check your answers.

1. Story 1 is about a fire. Story 2 is about a man who has won a photography competition. Story 3 is about the opportunity to work remotely in the Caribbean.

2. A digital nomad is someone who can work from anywhere in the world.

2. Listen again and answer the questions.

1. When did the fire start? It started late on saturday night.
2. What do the police think happened? They think the fire had been started deliberately.
3. Who phoned the police the second time? He used an old digital camera.
4. What did Marwan use to take his winning photograph? He was surprised that is had looked so good.
5. How did Marwan feel when he looked at his photo of the sunrise? Because of Covid-19.
6. Who has been offered the chance to live on the island of Antigua for two years? Digital nomads, people who can work anywhere in the world on their computer.

3. Listen to the first news story again and put the events in the correct order.

a. The fire moved to the front of the shop. 4
b. The police were called. 2
c. The fire started. 1
d. The police were called a second time. 3
e. The firefighters arrived. 5

Vocabulary

4. Complete the sentences with these words from the news stories.

1. My brother is a journalist for a local newspaper.
2. Did you read the news headlines this morning? There’s been another fire.
3. Which TV channel is the film on?
4. Police finally arrived at the scene of the crime.
5. The newspaper’s correspondent for North Africa lives in Cairo.
6. An investigator is trying to discover who caused the accident.

Language

5. Look at these sentences from the news stories. Underline the events which came first in each sentence.

1. By the time the fire fighters arrived the fire had moved to the front of the shop.
2. Marwan entered his first photo competition when he was only eight years old after he had been given a book about photography by his uncle.
3. Until Covid-19 arrived, the country’s main income had been tourism.

6. Complete the sentences with the past simple or past perfect form of the verb in brackets.

1. The woman had phoned (phone) for a taxi before her friends arrived (arrive).
2. The boy took (take) photos, after the police had left (leave) the scene.
3. Robert was (be) hungry because he hadn't eaten (not eat) anything all day.
4. The facts had been checked (check) by the reporter before he wrote (write) his report.
5. The children swam (swim) in the pool after they had finished (finish) their homework.
6. Dina hadn't spoken (not speak) to Nadia all day and she was (be) very sad.

Speaking

7. Look at the pictures. Read the questions and ask and answer in pairs.

1. Yesterday I was doing my homework. I suddenly heard a loud noise. I ran to look. What had happened? The cat had knocked the plant over.

2. My cousin called me at 7 o’clock yesterday morning. I was very surprised. What had happened? Her brother had gone to the hospital.