Английский язык. Учебно-методическое пособие к учебнику «Language Leader. Intermediate»

Unit 12.Crime

Section 1. Vocabulary for revision.

Case, charge with, evidence, false pretences, fraud, investigate, juvenile crime, legal, offender, witness, antisocial behaviour, genetic link, vicious circle, attorney, bank robber, captor, fingerprint, getaway, hostage, kidnapping, lawyer, prosecutor, ransom, robbery, suspect, thief, burglar, capital punishment, jury.

Section 2. Questions for unit revision.

1)What do you consider a serious crime? A less serious crime? Why?

2)Do you think there is such a thing as a minor offence?

3)At what age are people responsible for what they do?

4)Why do people commit crimes? Name some reasons? Provide your commentary.

5)Do you know a story of any famous bank robbery? Were criminals caught?

6)What are normally the functions of a judge?

7)Explain the term ‘jury’. What do members of the jury do?

8)What are the functions of the prosecution and of the defence?

9)What is a verdict? Who presents it? What verdicts can there be? 10) Is it possible to protect your property (house, car) from burglars? What measures do you usually take?

Section 3. Additional grammar tasks.

Third Conditional, Second Conditional revised

1.Choose the correct options from those in italics

1)If you called / had called me yesterday, I had told / would have told you.

2)If you took / would have taken more exercise, you might feel / will feel better.

3)If Edi would have listened / had listened more carefully, he wouldn’t have made / didn’t make that mistake.

4)It took us a long time to move. If we’d found / we found suitable premises, we’d have moved / we had moved earlier.

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5)If people kept / had kept their offices tidier, it might present / must present a better image to our visitors.

6)If I’d known / I would know about their financial problems, I wouldn’t invest / wouldn’t have invested in their company.

7)In the end we didn’t get the contract. But if our side had been / was better prepared, I’m sure we succeeded / could have succeeded in the negotiations.

8)Were you at the meeting yesterday? If you had gone / went, you must know / can know more than I do.

2.Compose conditional sentences on the basis of the following statements.

1)She thought of her future and refused to marry the young man.

2)He was deep in his thoughts and did not notice the ‘no parking’ sign.

3)I have a lot of work to do, I can’t go to the party.

4)There is no one to be with the baby, I have to stay at home.

5)It has stopped raining at last, and we began to enjoy ourselves outdoors.

6)She did not think of the consequences and agreed to forge (подделать) the document.

7)There were so many people there that nobody noticed his absence.

8)We don’t like cheese. We don’t buy it.

9)He lost his temper and said things he did not really mean.

10) I don’t know your cousin, I can’t meet her at the station.

Section 4. Give your commentary to the saying.

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot (Woody Allen, US film-maker).

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АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК

Учебно-методическое пособие

к учебнику «Language Leader. Intermediate»

Москва

2016