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    1. The document discusses different types of crimes including murder, burglary, fraud, smuggling, and robbery. 2. It provides sentences to fill in with crime-related verb pairs and has students match cries to crime descriptions. 3. Three conversations are about different crimes - a street robbery from the speaker's experience, fraud/identity theft involving a bank call, and an article about animal smuggling.

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    CAUGHT IN THE ACT MODULE 5 CRIME & PUNISHMENT

    VOCABULARY: CRIMES

    1. Complete sentences 1-9 with the pairs of verbs. You may need to reverse
    the order of the words.

    beaten – found raided – seized


    doing – caught set – smashed
    get hold of – gone stolen – broken into
    grabbed – came up to vanished – came back
    killed – went off

    1. I got a phone call from the bank saying I’d gone $1000 overdrawn. Someone
    must’ve got hold of my details somehow and used my card number.
    2. I was ________ on camera and had to pay a €100 fine. I was only ______
    about 65!
    3. A local businessman was _______ dead in a park. Apparently, he’d been
    attacked and then _______ to death.
    4. She went out to the shops and never _________. She just completely
    _________.
    5. They made such a mess. They ______ shop windows, threw rocks at police
    and ______ fire to cars.
    6. When we got back, we found the house had been ________. Fortunately,
    they hadn’t _______ much.
    7. I was standing outside the cathedral and this guy ________ me, ________
    my bag and ran off.
    8. Apparently, the police _______ this café near us and _______ 5 million
    dollars worth of ivory.
    9. Luckily, there weren’t many people around when the device _______ so no-
    one was _______, but it did a lot of damage.

    2. Work in pairs. Match these cries with the descriptions in Exercise 1.

    a bombing fraud smuggling


    a burglary murder speeding
    a disappearance a riot a street robbery / mugging

    LISTENING

    3. Listen to three conversations and answer the questions.


    Conversation 1 Conversation 2 Conversation 3
    1. What crime from
    exercise 2 do they
    talk about?
    2. How do the
    speakers know
    about the crime?

    3. What happened?

    SPEAKING

    4. Which of the three crimes is most serious? Explain your reasons.




    ANSWER KEYS

    1. 2. caught / doing 3. found / beaten 4. came back / vanished 5.
    smashed / set 6. broken into / stolen 7. came up to / grabbed
    8. raided / seized 9. went off / killed
    2.
    a bombing 9 fraud 1 smuggling 8
    a burglary 6 murder 3 speeding 2
    a disappearance 4 a riot 5 a street robbery / mugging 7
    3. .

    Conversation 1 Conversation 2 Conversation 3
    4. What crime from (Street) robbery Fraud / Identity theft Smuggling (especially stuffed
    exercise 2 do they and lived animals)
    talk about?
    5. How do the It happened to the speaker on The bank phoned because They read about it in a
    speakers know holiday. she’d ‘spent’ $800 in Manila newspaper article
    about the crime? (in the Philippines)
    Students’ own answers Students’ own answers Students’ own answers
    6. What happened?

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