- •Н.В. Елисеева, т.А. Шкуратова crime and criminal actions part I
- •Crime and criminal actions part one study the vocabulary on the topic
- •Financial wrongdoings
- •Penalties
- •Part two practise your vocabulary
- •1 Classify the list of crimes from the topical vocabulary into
- •2 How many different types of crime can you think of? Match the crimes given below with their definitions and then classify each crime as violent (V) or non-violent (nv).
- •3 Which crimes are being described in the following situations? Fill the gaps with the words from the list.
- •4 Match each person in the list with the description given.
- •5 Match the criminal with the definition.
- •6 While describing crimes and criminal behaviour you may find the following words useful. Match the words with their definitions.
- •7 Considering some details of financial wrongdoings, answer the questions.
- •8 Which of the crimes might each of these people be charged with?
- •9 Match two parts of the sentences and translate them.
- •10 Fill in the gaps with the appropriate word(s) from the topical vocabulary and then translate the sentences into Russian.
- •11 Translate the following sentences into Russian.
- •12 Study the headlines and match them with the first lines of the stories that follow.
- •13 There can be different types of theft, for example:
- •15 Getaway scenarios. Match the two parts of these extracts.
- •Packing a piece
- •18 Translate the interview with a fraud squad detective and explain in English the meaning of the words and phrases in bold type. Fraud and embezzlement
- •19 Complete the table below using information from the interview in Exercise 18. The first line gives an example. Refer to a dictionaryif necessary.
- •21 Complete each sentence by writing in the gap a word formed from the verb given in brackets.
- •22 In each of the numbered lines (1-5) there is one word which is wrong. Circle the mistake and write the correct word at the end of the line.
- •25 Fill in the blanks. The first letter of each missing word has been given.
- •It’s a crime
- •26 Put each of the following words and phrases into its correct place in the passage below.
- •Abolished deported neglected rioted cheated dispersed pardoned squatted swindled
- •28 Choose the most suitable word or phrase underlined in each sentence.
- •29 Choose the best alternative to fill the gaps in the following sentences.
- •30 Choose the correct answer.
- •32 Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence.
- •33 Choose the most suitable word or phrase.
- •34 Translate the sentences into English, using the topical vocabulary.
- •Part three practice your integrated grammar and vocabulary skills
- •1 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the word given in the right-hand column.
- •2 Complete each sentence with a word or compound word formed from the word in capitals.
- •3 Choose the most suitable word or phrase underlined in each sentence.
- •6 Decide which answer a,b,c or d best fits each space.
- •Inspector crumb investigates
- •Keeping your car safe
- •9 For questions 1-15, read the text below and think of one word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space. There is an example (0) at the beginning. Going missing
- •10 Complete each part sentence a) to j) with one of the endings 1) to 10). Use each ending once only.
- •11 Match the sentences on the left with the most suitable response on the right. Use the words and expressions in bold to help you. There is an example at the beginning (0).
- •Iscuss with your partner which of the solutions 1) to 10) suits each problem a) to j) or offer your own one(s).
- •Part four practise your listening skills
- •2.1 Fill in the table individually.
- •3.2 Discuss the following statements.
- •4.1 Listen to the tape for the first time and explain the meaning of the following numbers mentioned in the story.
- •4.2 Listen to the tape for the second time, arrange the key words and phrases given below in the order you hear them in the text and summarize the story using those as an outline.
- •4.3 Read the following story. Circle the correct answers. Explain your choices.
- •4.5 Listen to the text “the police commissioner's advice” for the first time and answer the following questions:
- •4.6 Listen to the text for the second time and mark the statements as True or False according to the text.
- •4.7 Write your idea on fighting crime in fifty words or less. Students will vote on which suggestion is best. Try using causative verbs in your response.
- •4.8 Discuss the following questions with group members:
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13 There can be different types of theft, for example:
architectural
arms
auto
bike
betty
employee
art.
Use these word-combinationss to complete the sentences.
1 Hoteliers are usually happy to offer you a safe corner to park your machine overnight. This is very necessary, particularly in Paris where ______ theft is rife.
2 In the area of _____ theft, insiders steal considerably more money and merchandise than outsiders.
3 Last year, more than 5,300 vehicles were stolen in El Paso a city of half a million people. That's almost twice the national _____ theft rate for urban areas.
4 Philip Saunders, a former dealer, estimates that works worth about £35 billion have gone missing this year, putting _____ theft behind only the drugs trade and computer fraud in value.
5 South Miami beach is notorious for pickpockets and_____ theft.
6 The organisation behind _____ theft is not as sophisticated as behind fine art. Panelling, fireplaces and staircases are being ripped out and sold to dealers who do not ask too many questions.
7 Two white men, one of them a policeman, have been arrested in connection with an ____ theft last weekend, when a large quantity of weapons was taken from an air force base in Pretoria.
14 Sorting out car crime. Here are two articles: one about joyriding, consisting of two sections, and the other about carjacking, consisting of four. Complete the gaps with appropriate words and say which sections belong to which articles. (The sections are in the correct order for each article)
a Stop your car at a red light in Detroit and you may find you have lost it for good. Thieves have hit on an easy way of stealing cars: order the driver out at gunpoint, then take his place and drive off. _____ is not limited to Detroit - Houston has reported.
As many as ten in one day and San Diego, Atlanta and Los Angeles are infected - but it has become a mini-epidemic in the city and some of its suburbs in recent weeks.
b Most teenage _____are school failures who believe they are very good or exceptional drivers and take cars for excitement, according to a purvey on car crime. Although they knew it was wrong to steal a car, most of those interviewed, all under 17, did not consider themselves criminals and had almost no concern for the victims of their crime.
c In the past six weeks more than 300 drivers have been ____in Detroit. Several people, including an off-duty policeman, have been killed trying to resist.
d Jeff Briggs, who carried out the survey among 200 youths at a car project at Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, said that while many people complained about the term, _______was an accurate description of the experience of taking vehicles. 'They get a good time, an enormous amount of joy out of_____,' he told a conference on car crime in London yesterday.
e There have been about 200 arrests. _________may be an easy way to steal a car - and two thirds of the cars have been recovered -but the penalty for being caught is high.
f Armed robbery carries a much bigger penalty than theft. The _____ spree has left Detroit's inner city even emptier than usual