Cover the text. Which words on the left go with which words on the right?

a) plead i) verdict

b) cross-examine ii) case

c) remand iii) imprisonment

d) commit iv) sentence

e) reach v) witnesses

f) stand vi) offence

g) find vii) evidence

h) hear viii) guilty/ not guilty

i) pay ix) trial

j) call x) fine

k) give xi) bail

l) sum up xii) custody

m) pass

Which people are connected with which items and in what way?

the police the accused the magistrate the judge

the jury the witnesses the barristers

Crimes

1.Listen to the cassette, and match the spontaneous definitions

that you hear to the crimes on your list:

It’s a crime that involves lighting fires, setting fire to something, and the person who commits this crime is someone who sets fire to something, and he shouldn’t, or she shouldn’t.

This means really, like putting pressure on someone to do something, like give you money or something else you want them to do. It can be by, usually it’s by threatening to expose some terrible secret that they’ve got.

This is when you kill someone without intending to, so it’s not murder, but nevertheless it’s your fault and you’ve probably done something you shouldn’t have done – like dangerous driving, for example.

This is, er, when you rob somebody with violence or with threats of violence, um, in a public place. It wouldn’t be called this if it was in your own home, but it includes robbery and violence or threat of violence.

It’s a crime when somebody hits somebody else, er, could be as simple as just one punch or it could be a complete beating up.

2. Listen to snatches of conversation on the cassette.

Which crimes are concerned?

Now officer, I’m sure there will be some fine to pay for this offence, so why don’t you and I just save each other a lot of trouble, and I’ll pay you the fine straight away. Personally, as it were.

Those are our demands, which must be met by midnight at the latest. Should they not be, we will begin to execute the hostages on board, one every hour.

I can’t pay, I can’t pay all that. Why are you asking for more suddenly?

Sshh! Keep quiet, turn the light off. There’s someone moving around upstairs. Look, no shooting, all right?

I didn’t mean to do it, I didn’t mean to do it, I didn’t mean to! The gun just went off. And there he was, dead!!

The photographs must be left in a plain white envelope, under the fourth park bench along as you enter the park from Piccadilly. This must be at eight-fifteen precisely. Slide the packet under the bench and walk straight on. The money will be handed to you in a second white envelope, by a man wearing a green jacket and horn-rimmed glasses.

Look at that. Perfect! I challenge anyone to tell the difference.

That one over there who’s just picked up the black suitcase, do you see him? What do you think? Yep, come on, let’s pull him in, and see what he’s got in there.