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Slide 68, ex. 5 / Match the highlighted words in the blog post to meanings 1-8.

  1. Things that people have left in a public place by accident – lost property
  2. Against the law – illegal
  3. Give or be a good reason for something – justify
  4. The facts and events that affect what happens in a particular situation – circumstances
  5. A court sentence – where you will go to jail only if you commit another crime within a specified time – suspended sentence
  6. By chance, not planned – accidentally
  7. Left and no longer wanted or needed – abandoned
  8. Small things that you own which are worth a lot of money – valuables

ex. 6 / Complete the sentences about the couple who found the gold coins, using vocabulary from exercise 3 and 5.

  1. According to the official, the coins are two hundred years old, so the owner must be dead.
  2. The coins were lost or abandoned two hundred years ago and were only found accidentally.
  3. The coins may be from a bank robbery or something else illegal.
  4. In these circumstances, the coins ought to be in a museum.
  5. It wouldn’t matter if the coins were only worth a small amount, but they’re very valuable.
  6. The couple should get a reward instead of getting to keep the coins.