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TEACHER:
DRA. SUSANA GUTIERREZ SALDAÑA

STUDENTS:
• Carrasco Jacinto Beatriz
• Cano Melgarejo Naysha

2021
 PAST SIMPLE AND
UNIT 3 PAST PERFECT

A MISTERY
Reading and
listening
1. Pairwork Before you read Who is the Piano Man? on page 31, decide what you would like to find out from the
article. Then read the article. Does it answer your questions?

Where is the
Piano Man
from?
2. Read the article again and answer the 3 a. Listen to the radio report and match the speakers (1-4) with
the people they think the Piano Man (a-d)
questions.
1. Why couldn’t they identify the Piano Man?

1. Polish mime asrtist a) a keyboard player from rock band

Because he did not answer questions and he
had no belongings.
2. a Czech drummer b) a concert pianist

2. In what way does he express himself?

3. an Italian journalist c) an Algerian man

He expressed himself when he drew the

4. a Danish woman d) a French Street musician
concert piano on the paper
3b Listen again and answer the questions about Tomas 4 Read Te ‘Piano Man revealed on pag 31 and answer
Strnad and Stephen Villa Masson the questions.

1. Why do the speakers identify them as the

Piano Man? 1. How long did the Piano Man remain
2. Why are they wrong? unidentified?
2. Where was he from?
3. Why had he left home?
4. Why did his parents report him missing?

?
5. How did he end up in England?
6. Do you think he was genuine or a fake?
Grammar

5 Read the two articles again and number the events in order.

He lost his job in Paris. 3

Police found him in Kent. 5
He took a train to Britain. 4
He left home. 2
He said he wanted to go to Paris. 1
He got wet in the sea. 6

6 Study the sentences and complete the rules opposite with past simple or past perfect.
• His suit was soaking wet. He had clearly just come out of the sea.
• By the time he came back, the young man had drawn a picture of a concert piano.
• He had lost his job in Paris and had taken a Eurostar train to Britain.
• After he had stopped phoning home, his parents reported him missing.
 Past simple and past perfect

• Past simple
Use the ______________to talk about events that started
and ended in the past.
• We use the past simple together with the past perfect
when we want to give background to a story and to make
the order of events clear.
• Use the _______________
Past perfect to talk about an action or
state that happened before another action or state. Use
Past simple
the_______________ to express the second or later
event.
• Use the _________________
Past perfect with by the time.
• We often use the with _______________
Past perfect time
expressions found with the present perfect, such as
already, just, for, since.
 Find more examples of the past perfect in The Piano Man revealed.

RELATED STORIES
The 'Piano Man' revealed Family thought 20-year old Bavarian was dead
AFTER 130 DAYS of speculation, the identity of the 'Piano Man' has been revealed. And
it all happened so easily. Without expecting an answer, a nurse asked him, 'Are you
going to speak today? and he replied, "Yes, I will.
He told her that his name was Andreas Grassl, and he was the son of a dairy farmer
from Bavaria in Germany. He had been unhappy in the small village of Prosdorf, so in
March he had told his parents that he wanted to study in Paris and had left home.
In May, after he had stopped phoning home, his parents reported him missing. At that
time, Kent police had already found him on the seafront and taken him to hospital
because he wasn't able to tell them who he was.
On August 20", he was reunited with his parents at Munich airport. He said, 'l am so
happy to be home.' He said he didn't know what had happened.
All he could remember was that he had lost his job in Paris and had taken a Eurostar
train to Britain, and then he didn't remember any more. Newspapers began to speculate
that Andreas had tried to fool people in Britain, pretending to have amnesia. But his
lawyer insisted that he had suffered from mental problems in the past, and that he had
genuinely been ill.
 Find the following verbs in the past simple in Who is the Piano Man?
Be | CARRY | LEAVE | THINK | HEAR | GIVE | DRAW | TAKE

Who is the 'Piano Man'?

The mystery of the silent, talented piano player
Tuesday 17 May
Last month, the police picked up a mysterious blond-haired man on the windy seafront of
Sheerness, in Kent. The young man was smartly dressed in a white shirt and tie, but his
suit was soaking wet. He had clearly just come out of the sea. Who was he? He carried no
belongings, he wouldn't answer any questions, and all the labels were missing from his
clothes.
The police placed him in hospital care and left the doctors to try to discover the secret of
who he was.
His social worker believed that he understood some English. Others thought he was
Norwegian because he pointed at Oslo on a map. But so far no one has heard him talk
any language. However he is fluent in one language- music.
A carer gave him paper and pencils. By the time he came back, the young man had drawn
a picture of a concert piano. So staff took him where, to their amazement, he played the
music of Tchaikovsky, The Beatles, and his own melancholy tunes.
If you think you know this man, contact the National Missing Persons Helpline on 050 8292
4481.