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Burglary

Jewellery and coins _______ last night from the house of Mr. and Mrs. Thomson. At about 1.30 a.m., a young man _______ in the garden by a neighbour. The police _______ immediately by the neighbour’s wife. Ten minutes later the man _______ as he was leaving the garden and _______ to the police station for questioning. His pockets ________. Rings and gold coins worth over $ 3000.

When the man about the theft, he said: “It was easy. The window was open and the safe was not locked.”

The jewellery and coins _______ the next morning.

Task 16. Match the synonyms.

(Words from the first column are taken from the text “Crime and Punishment”)

  1. Mischievous

  1. Offence

  1. Catastrophe

  1. Struggle

  1. Hijacking

  1. To adore

  1. To be aware of

  1. Disease

  1. Courageous

  1. To fear

  1. Shy

  1. Penalty

  1. Blackmail

  1. Discovery

  1. Invention

  1. Up-to-date

  1. Frighten

  1. Naughty

  1. VIP-treatment

  1. Disaster

  1. Sickness

  1. Brave

  1. Controversial

  1. To know

  1. To glorify

  1. Skyjacking

  1. Fashionable

  1. Timid

  1. To be afraid of

  1. Questionable

  1. Punishment

  1. Behaviour

  1. Crime

  1. Reminiscences

  1. Conduct

  1. Red-carpet treatment

  1. Memoirs

  1. Scared

  1. Fight

  1. Extortion

Task 17. Discuss in pairs.

  1. What does the writer mean by the underlined phrases?

  2. What makes people commit crimes?

  3. How should we refer to offenders?

Task 18. Make up a composition on one of the given topics. Do you agree with these statements or not?

  1. Stolen sweets are best”.

  2. Laws were made to be broken”.

  3. Society prepares the crime and the criminal commits it”.

  4. Honesty is the best policy”.

Task 19. Give the comparative & superlative degree of the following adjectives:

wicked, excessive, poor, controversial, fashionable, mischievous, courageous, shy, conscious, suitable, punitive, cruel.

Task 20. Complete the following sentences with the words in the box.

professional, serious, young, controversial, violent, cold-blooded, brutal, vulnerable, old, capital

  1. A felony is a … crime but not as serious as treason.

  2. It is a … question.

  3. … punishment used to be a major deterrent.

  4. It made the … robber think twice before pulling the trigger.

  5. It gave the … poisoner something to ponder about while he was shaking up his arsenic cocktail.

  6. Above all it protected the most … members of society …children, from … sex-maniacs.

  7. It made the … killer think twice before using his crowbar to batter some harmless … lady to death.

Task 21. Make up your own sentences using the following adjectives:

mischievous, courageous, conscious, punitive, cruel, controversial, wicked.