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6.2	Missing*!
Grammar	Past Simple: question forms and short answers
Can do	understand and give simple directions

Reading

1    Read the text and answer the questions.

1    How many hours was Robin Andrews away from home?

2    What does missing mean?

3    Why is Robin confused?

2    a 09 Listen to an interview with Robin and answer the questions.

1    Where was Robin the next morning?

2    Who helped him?

3    Who collected him?

b There are some mistakes in the interviewer’s notes for her article. Listen and correct the underlined phrases.

i Robin disappeared at 2.30.

Man goes missing for 16 hours

Robin Andrews, 24, of Loxton Close, Shelton, was missing for sixteen hours lastTuesday. Mr Andrews disappeared at 2.30 in the afternoon when he walked out of the house to get some things in the village. In the village centre, three kilometres from his home, Mr Andrews collected some money from the cashpoint and called at the post office, but he doesn't remember anything after

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that. Mr Andrews is very confused, 'I wanted to go to the bar but something strange happened.' It seems that Mr Andrews arrived in Marbury, eight kilometres from Shelton, where ...

2    He walked three kilometres to the village.

3    He called at the post office.

4    He wanted to go to the bar.

5    A young man helped him.

6    His mother collected him.

Vocabulary I

prepositions of place

3 a Listen to the dialogue again. Tick (/) the phrases you hear.

in the bank[

next to the supermarket EU at the phone shopl I to the Internet cafe O in front of a library I I on the ground EU behind the police station EU at the bus station EU underthe bridge I I between the trees EU

b 09 Listen to the phrases in Ex. 3a and repeat them.

Lifelong’ learning

Words and pictures

Pictures can sometimes help you to learn words, like the diagrams of prepositions below.

4 Write the correct preposition under the diagrams.

Grammar I Pastsimple: questions

5 Read the questions in the Active grammar box and complete the rule. Choose the correct words

Active grammar

1    Did you get lost?

2    Where did you go then ?

3    Did you go to sleep?

To make questions in the Past Simple, use do/did and the past form/infinitive of the verb.

see Reference page 63

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