2 variant I. Reading.

Task 1. Read the text and do some tasks

Lost

ABC broadcast the first episode of Lost in 2004.The series started with a scene on a flight from Sydney, Australia, to Los Angeles, USA. The planewas flying over the Pacific Ocean when, suddenly, it crashed. There were 324 passengers on the plane and everybody thought they were dead. But in themysterious world of Lost, 48 passengers survived.

The survivors landed on a small island and theyworked together to find food. Every day, they waited for a ship or a plane, but help never arrived. While they were living on the island, they had a lot of scary experiences. In one episode, the survivors were walking in the jungle when they saw a huge polar bear. They discovered that other people were living on the island, but ‘the Others’ weren’t friendly.

There was a flashback in every episode. These showed what the characters were doing before the plane crashed. One of the most interesting characters was the American doctor and leader of the group, Jack (played by Matthew Fox). The flashbacks explained a lot about the characters, but the island kept its secrets.

Audiences loved Lost because the plot was very unusual. The island was still a mystery when the series ended, after 114 episodes, in 2010.

Task 1

Find the words in the text and match them with the definitions.

1 passengers a people who don’t die in an accident

2 survivors b people in a plane, car, or train

3 leader c the story in a film or show

4 plot d a person who is in control of a group

Task 2

Answer the questions. Write complete sentences.

1 How did the audience learn more about the characters?



2 Why was Lost popular?



3 When did the series end?



II Grammar

Complete the sentences. Use the past simple or past continuous form of the verbs in

brackets.

1 you (see) your friends while you (walk) to school this morning?

2 The film (start) while I (get) a drink.

III Vocabulary

Complete the definitions.

1 There are a lot of hospital scenes in a .

2 often shows football matches.

Write a news item about the incident “Plane crash ”or use your own idea.

B THINK AND PLAN

1 Where, when and why did the incident happen?

2 What caused the incident?

3 What were conditions like?

4 How did people react? What were people doing?

5 What happened in the end?

6 What did people say?

C WRITE

Paragraph 1: Introduction

This was the dramatic scene ...

Paragraph 2: The incident

The incident began ...

Paragraph 3: Conditions

At first ...

Paragraph 4: Conclusion and reaction

After ... hours ...

D CHECK

• time connectors

• past simple and past continuous