Prime Time 5/6, Language in Use, Arbeitsheft

2 Past simple vs. past progressive 1: A mysterious story a) Use the words in brackets in either the past simple or the past progressive form. I lost (1 lose ) my mobile while I (2 run ) to catch the bus. While I (3 go ) to school on the bus, I (4 find ) somebody else’s mobile phone on the floor. I (5 try ) to unlock the phone when a girl (6 appear ) next to me. She (7 watch ) me when the phone suddenly (8 ring ) . Frightened, I (9 drop ) the phone on the floor where it (10 ring ) for some time. The girl (11 wait ) for the phone to stop ringing and then (12 step ) on it with her foot. She (13 smile ) when the glass (14 break ) and the screen (15 go ) dead. I (16 watch ) her without saying a word when the bus suddenly (17 stop ) in front of the school. The girl (18 jump ) out of the bus and (19 run ) towards the school while I (20 stare ) at the broken phone on the floor. b) Why do you think the girl did this? c) Invent a similar mysterious story of your own using the past simple and the past progressive. 3 Language in use: Past simple vs. past progressive 2: Inventions You are going to read a text about inventions which were made by coincidence. Some forms are missing from the text. Choose from the list (A–K) the correct part for each gap (1–8) in the text. There are two extra forms you should not use. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. Cheeseburger: The cheeseburger might never have existed if not for an accident in the kitchen. In the 1920s, young chef Lionel Sternberger … (0) lunch when he suddenly … (Q1) a hamburger. He … (Q2) the charred spot under a slice of cheese rather than throw it away. The customer was delighted and the cheeseburger was born. Super glue: Harry Coover, an employee at Kodak in Tennessee, … (Q3) for a temperature-resistant coating for jet cockpits when an assistant … (Q4) to tell him about an accident with the new material. Expensive lenses were ruined when they ended up glued together by the sticky substance. Coover … (Q5) work on the coating immediately and … (Q6) the following days to develop the perfect glue. Chewing gum: In 1869, NewYorker Thomas Adams … (Q7) to make rubber for tyres using gum from chicle trees. One day he put a piece in his mouth to help him concentrate, and … (Q8) it was actually very enjoyable to chew. A ate E realised I / was preparing 0 I ✔ Q3 Q6 B burned F stopped J was spending Q1 Q4 Q7 C came G was looking K was trying Q2 Q5 Q8 D hid H was melting 73 2 Past forms Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv