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Crime

VOCABULARY

A. You are going to read a text about crime fiction. Match the following words
related to crime with their definitions.

1. fiction a) in or to a foreign country or countries.

b) enjoying watching the pain and suffering of
2. popularity
others.
3. abroad
c) literature in the form of prose, especially novels,
4. vast that describes imaginary events and people.
5. assassination d) a person who judges the merits of literary
or artistic works, especially one who does so
6. complex
professionally.
7. critic
e) the state or condition of being liked, admired,
8. voyeuristic or supported by many people.
f) of very great extent or quantity; immense.
g) consisting of many different and connecting
parts.
h) the murder of an important person.

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READING

B. Read the text and then choose the best title.

1. SCANDINAVIAN WRITERS
2. THE UNSOLVED ASSASSINATION OF OLOF PALME
3. A GOLDEN AGE FOR SCANDINAVIAN CRIME FICTION

Not too many years ago, it would have
been hard to think of examples of
Scandinavian crime fiction. Suddenly
readers are spoilt for choice. What has
led to this golden age of crime fiction
in
a part of the world not known for its
criminal tendencies?
Journalist Vit Wagner has two answers.
One is simple enough: Hennning Mankell.
The popularity of his Kurt Wallander
series - both in Sweden and abroad -
made publishers recognize that there was
a vast market for other writers to tap.
The other is more complicated; the
1986 assassination of Swedish Prime
Minister Olof Palme, still unsolved. It left
many questions dangling; not just who
did it? but more complex ones about
modern society and violence. According
to author and critic Marie Peterson,
the only literature that explored the
impact of the assassination, felt deeply
throughout Scandinavia, was crime
fiction. Scandinavian writers are not so
much interested in the solving of puzzles
or the voyeuristic experience of crime,
but rather in the slow, rippling effect
of a violent act on the minds, souls and
social fabric of those they leave behind.
In many ways, crime fiction has taken
the place of the 19th century social
novel, particularly in Scandinavia.

*Source: http://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=1987033

C. Read the text again and circle the correct words.

1. There are very few/lots of Scandinavian crime writers today.

2. Henning Mankell is a writer/policeman.
3. We know/dont know who is responsible for the death of the Swedish Prime
Minister.
4. Marie Peterson thinks that Swedish people were/werent interested in the effects
of crime.
5. Scandinavian crime writers are more/less interested in solving the crime than
studying the effect of the crime.
6. Crime writing in Scandinavia is like a 19th century novel because it is about
social/historical issues.

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GRAMMAR

THE PAST SIMPLE

D. Write the word in brackets in the past simple.

1. Yesterday I ___________ a crime novel from the new bookshop. (buy)

2. We _________ a really good film last night. (see)

3. They ___________ tennis every day that summer. (play)

4. The murderer _________ away and escaped. (run)

5. Sam ___________ late for class again this morning. (arrive)

6. I ___________ you five times this morning but you didnt answer. (phone)

7. Jimmy _________ French at university and now he works as a translator. (study)

8. We drove for three hours and then we ___________ for a coffee. (stop)

E. Write the negative form and the question form of each sentence.

E.g.: He watched TV. Negative: He didnt watch TV.

Question: Did he watch TV?

1. He killed the policeman.

2. She saw the crime.

3. They arrested the criminal.

4. Her mum came to stay.

5. David sent a postcard to his family.

6. We spent all our money.

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F. Complete the text with the verbs in the box in the past simple.

leave disappear go discover offer

say catch phone disappear

The wife of Bill Bates, the multi-millionaire businessman, (1) ___________

a million euros reward for information about her missing husband. Bates (2)

____________ last week.

My husband (3)_________ home at 8 o clock and (4)__________ to work.

She said. He (5)__________ the train that morning he likes traveling by train.

At lunchtime they (6) ___________ me from his office and asked me where he

was. I (7)__________ I didnt know. Thats when I (8)____________ that he

had disappeared.

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WRITING

Imagine that you are a journalist writing for the crime section of a local newspaper. A
body has appeared in a river just outside the centre of town; the police have said that
they are treating the incident as a murder. You have been sent to investigate the crime
and write a short article about it.

G. Organise your ideas.

Ask yourself WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHO, HOW and

WHY?
Make notes:
What happened?
Where was the crime scene?
When did it happen?
Who was the victim?
How was the victim killed?
Why was the victim killed? What was the motive?

Useful Phrases
It seems that the victim was killed because.
The police have said that
The murderer is thought to be a
The body was found by in a
The victim was shot/stabbed/strangled/beaten to
death/drowned

Write the article. Use between 60 100 words.

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SPEAKING

H. Work in pairs, A and B. Student A reads John Smiths account and Student B
reads Steve Jones account. Take turns to ask and answer questions.

John Smith and Steve Jones are suspected bank robbers. They both have alibis for
the day of the robbery. They say they spent the day together. However there are
some discrepancies in their alibis.

Try to find all of the discrepancies in the two accounts.

Eg: Where did they meet? What time did they meet?

Student A

John Smiths account

We met in the park at about 11 oclock in the morning. Then we went to Pattys
caf and we had a cup of coffee. Steve went to the newsagents to buy a
newspaper and I sat and watched the news on TV in the caf. At about 12 oclock
we went to my house for lunch. I made spaghetti and tomato sauce and Steve
made a salad. We ate at about 1 oclock. We drank a bottle of water with our
lunch and we had ice cream for dessert. After lunch we watched TV for an hour
or so, and then we played chess. I won. At about 4 oclock my mother phoned
me and I spoke to her for about half an hour. Steve read the newspaper. At 5
oclock we went out for a walk. Then Steve went home and I went to the cinema.

Student B

Steve Jones account

We met in the park at about 11 oclock in the morning. Then we went to Kathys
caf and we had a cup of tea. I went to the newsagents to buy a magazine and
John sat and watched a cartoon on TV in the caf. At about 12.30 we went to
my house for lunch. I made rice and John made a curry. We ate at about 1.30.
We drank a bottle of wine with our lunch and we had yoghurt for dessert. After
lunch we watched TV for half an hour and then we played cards. I won. At about
4 oclock Johns mother phoned him and he spoke to her for about 20 minutes.
I read the newspaper. At 5.30 we went out for a walk. Then I went home and
John went to the supermarket.

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LISTENING

I. Listen to this extract from a short crime story about identical twins, Two
peas in a pod by Chris Rose. Then answer the following question:

What is the relationship between the speaker and Evie?

*Source: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/stories/two-peas-pod

J. Study the words in the glossary and listen again to decide whether the
statements are true or false.

GLOSSARY:
Identical twin gemelo
Naughty travieso
To get into trouble meterse en problemas
To fail an exam suspender un examen
To pass an exam aprobar un examen
To expel expulsar del instituto
To plead with suplicar (a algn)
To drop charges retirar las acusacione

1. Evie is the naughty sister.

2. People knew which sister was which.

3. The speakers sister was a thief.

4. Evie always claimed to be Edie.

5. Evie was expelled from school for stealing.

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ANSWER KEY

VOCABULARY

1.c, 2.e, 3.a, 4.f, 5.h, 6.g, 7.d, 8.b

READING

Title 3

1. lots of
2. writer
3. dont know
4. were
5. less
6. social

GRAMMAR

1. bought
2. saw
3. played
4. ran
5. arrived
6. phoned
7. studied
8. stopped

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1. Neg.: He didnt kill the policeman.

Q: Did he kill the policeman?

2. Neg.: She didnt see the crime.

Q: Did she see the crime?

3. Neg.: They didnt arrest the criminal.

Q: Did they arrest the criminal?

4. Neg.: Her mum didnt come to stay.

Q: Did her mum come to stay?

5. Neg.: David didnt send a postcard to his family.

Q: Did David send a postcard to his family?

6. Neg.: We didnt spend all our money.

Q: Did we spend all our money?

1. offered
2. disappeared
3. left
4. went
5. caught
6. phoned
7. said
8. discovered

WRITING

Students own answers.

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SPEAKING

Students own answers

LISTENING

They are identical twins.

1. true
2. false
3. true
4. false
5. false

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LISTENING

Tapescript:

Two peas in a pod

by Chris Rose

They called us Edie and Evie! Even our names were almost identical.
Two peas in a pod, they called us. Two drops of water.
Sometimes we couldnt hardly tell ourselves from each other. At least when we were
small. But as we grew up things began to change.
Everybody thinks identical twins are, well, identical. But if youre a twin youll know
that its not true.
Twins, even identical ones, are different inside. I think we started to change when we
started school. I was always very good. I never got into trouble, I always did all of my
homework and did very well in all the tests and exams. Evie wasnt like that. Evie was
always getting into trouble. Evie never did her homework
Evie, of course, started by copying my homework. Then she got worse. When there
was a class test she would write my name on her paper. When she got into trouble,
she smiled beautifully at the teacher and said No, Im Edie, Im the good one, it was
my twin sister Evie who was naughty!
They never took us seriously, we were only small children after all, there was no harm
in being a bit naughty. Everyone used to laugh. And because they never really knew
who was who, neither of us was ever punished for being naughty, and they never
failed either of us in our exams, because they couldnt be sure which one to fail and
which one to pass.
But as we got older, it got worse. Evie started to steal things. At first it was only
things from other children, sweets or pens or pencils or rubbers, the kind of things
that sometimes happen in school. But when we were 15, some money was taken from
a teachers bag. It was quite a lot of money, and the situation was serious. Then they
found the money in Evies pocket. And what did Evie do? Well, of course, she did the
same thing she always did. No, it wasnt me. It was my twin sister. And I got into
trouble, serious trouble this time. They called the police. They tried to expel me from
school. It was only when our parents came in and pleaded with the headteacher that
they agreed to drop the charges and say nothing about it. We were lucky that time.

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