Mosaic 2 Students Book
Mosaic 2 Students Book
Mosaic 2 Students Book
In this unit, we
talk about unusual discoveries in the past
describe lost objects
write a thank-you note
Warm-up A
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Video
Machu Picchu
5 How do you say these words in your language? 8 In your notebook, complete the newspaper article
with the materials and the correct past continuous
Learn it! form of the verbs.
False friends
You dont often find ambergris its very rare. describelook fornot wearringsitwait
Ambergris has a very strange smell. I cant describe it.
The London Underground
Grammar Past continuous Lost Property Office
collects the things people
Grammar animation lose on buses and trains
like books, mobile
6 In your notebook, copy and complete
phones, keys, umbrellas
the table. Then complete the rule.
and handbags. Last year,
Subject Affirmative / Verb + -ing they also found more than
Negative 4,000 pieces of jewellery,
I (1)
/ wasnt walking. including a gold Rolex
He / She / It was / (2)
running. watch. When we visited the office last week, it was
very busy. Phones (1)
constantly, and more than
having lunch.
We / You / They were / (3)
fifty people (2)
for their property. A 90-year-old
studying. man (3) what his walking stick looked like he said
it was made of natural wood with a metal handle.
Questions Short answers
A woman (4) an expensive leather coat. A metre-
Was I walking? Yes, I was. / No, I (4)
. tall plastic Mickey Mouse (5)
on a chair in a corner!
(5)
he / she / it (6 run)? Yes, he / she / it was. One worker told us about a customer who collected
No, he / she / it wasnt. some false teeth. A few hours later he returned
(7)
we / you / (9) .
(8 have) lunch? Yes, we / you / they them. He (6) them because they werent his!
they (10)
No, we / you / they .
We use the past continuous for actions in progress in the Language in action
past / finished actions at a particular time in the past.
Grammar practice
9 Write sentences about what you were doing
yesterday at the times below. Then ask questions
to find someone who was doing the same thing
as you at the same time.
Vocabulary, Reading and Listening 3 0.00 Listen to four people who found secret notes.
What were they doing when they found the notes?
Vocabulary presentation
Vocabulary practice 4 0.00 Listen again and answer the questions.
1 Look at photos AD. Which of these containers can 1 How was speaker 1 feeling before she found the note?
you see in each photo? Why?
2 How did speaker 2 feel after he found the note?
bottlebowlboxcancartoncase 3 What was the weather like on the day that speaker 3
cupenvelopeglassjarpackettin found his note?
4 What did speaker 4 do with her note? Why?
A bottle,
5 Look at the words. Make two pairs of opposites and
2 0.00 Read and listen to the introduction to the
one pair of words with a similar meaning.
podcast. Answer the questions.
1 Why did Hannah feel sad and lonely? cheerfulemptyextraordinaryfullmiserablespecial
2 What did she do to make herself and others happy?
Vocabulary practice
3 Where did she leave her letters?
audio A B
podcast
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The World Needs
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24-year-old Hannah didnt know anyone
when she moved to New York after
college. She often felt sad and lonely.
01.58 02.16
One day, while she was travelling to
work on the underground, she wrote
a letter to the person who was sitting C D
opposite her. After that, she left letters
to people all over New York. She
wanted to make people happy.
Over the next year, Hannah wrote
400 letters to strangers, and started a
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website, The World Needs More Love
love,
friends, Letters. Today, more than 10,000 people
letters, all over the world are finding letters
new, from strangers. Listen to some of their
found stories. 04.02 05.23
Grammar practice
Language in action
6 Youre preparing a bag with things to take with
you in an emergency. Choose six objects that are
important to you. Describe them and give reasons
for your choice.
Grammar practice
Focus on
M at hs an d P hysi cs
Which weighs the most?
A water Bair Cgold Dplastic
Unit 2 27
Describing lost
2.4 Practical English property
C
K
B
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2.4
At the lost property office
I lost my (yesterday). Its made of (plastic).
I left my on the . What brand is it?
What does it look like? Its a () one.
Its quite big Is it any of these?
Whats it made of? Yes, this is / thats it!
Functional language
Reading Listening
1 In your notebook, complete the text with the words 3 0.00 Listen to the story and choose the correct
and the correct past simple or past continuous form option.
of the verbs in brackets. 1 Dougie Campbell comes from the Big island / the area
near the island.
cupplasticvaluablewooden
2 The strange discovery happened 1900 years ago / in 1900.
3 Three workers stayed on the island for two weeks /
three weeks at a time.
4 Mr Moore was one of the men who disappeared /
found the lighthouse empty.
5 There was / wasnt food on the table.
6 The last entry in the diary was on 14th / 15th December.
Speaking
4 Ask and answer the questions about the picture.
Unusual discoveries When / it / happen?
In 2008, a fan of the rock n roll singer Elvis How / man / feel? Why?
Presley (1 discover) an unusual item for sale on What / happen to / false teeth?
eBay, the online auction site. He (2 buy) it for Who / find / false teeth? How?
$455. It was a small amount of water from a (3)
How / man / hear about / discovery / false teeth?
cup that Elvis Presley once drank out of. In 1977,
Elvis (4 play) a live concert in California, when he What / happen / then?
(5 stop) to have some water. As Elvis (6 drink), a It happened in . The man was feeling sick because .
young fan (7 watch) him. He picked up the (8) after
the show and (9 take) it home with him. He kept A B C
the water for more than 25 years, before he
(10 sell) it on eBay.
In 2008, two people (11 clean) the attic in their
new house one day. They werent expecting to
find anything (12)
, but then they (13 see), under
their feet, some very unusual (14) floorboards. The
floorboards were old signs from train stations, from
the 1950s. In total they (15 find) 49 signs with place
names such as London, Glasgow and Manchester.
Theyre worth 20,000. Its hard to believe they
(16 lie) in the attic for nearly half a century.
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