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CAUGHT IN THE ACT Vocabulary + Keys
CAUGHT IN THE ACT Vocabulary + Keys
VOCABULARY: CRIMES
1. Complete sentences 1-9 with the pairs of verbs. You may need to reverse
the order of the words.
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.
LISTENING
3. What happened?
SPEAKING