New Cutting Edge Intermediate Modules 9 and 10
Put the right missing word into each gap below, in the correct tense.
- If your boss asked you to _________________________ him cups of tea all the time
- If your job ___________________________________ you angry almost every day
- If everything suggestion your doctor ____________ just ________________ it worse
- If your partner ______________________________________ you a disgusting dinner
- If your bank _________ a mistake and added money that wasn’t yours to your account
- If a client _________________________ you a cup of coffee but you were allergic to it
- If you bought a pair of shoes and realised at home they were _____________ of plastic
Compare as a class, then discuss what you would do in each circumstance above.
Under what other circumstances would you commit fraud? (“I would commit fraud if…”)
Discuss the same thing for the situations on page 97, then dscuss number 7 (stealing) as a class.
Explain why you might do one of these crimes and see if your partner can guess which:
- Shoplift
- Pickpocket
- Mug someone
- Smuggle drugs (= drug trafficking)
- Deal drugs
- Forge someone’s signature
- Snatch someone’s bag
- Accept bribes
- Break into a house or shop
- Set fire to a house (= arson)
- Blackmail someone
Identify the crimes on page 104. Guess how the stories continue then read and check.
Fill these sentences with the different past tenses that were used in the texts you read :
- Guildford Crown Court yesterday ____________ (hear) how mugger Toby Williams… ___________________________________ (snatch) the handbag of Barbara Walsh…
- What they __________________________________ (not realise) was that the police ________________________________________________ (watch) them for weeks.
- The diamonds _______________________________________________ (replace) with replicas: the real ones ____________________________ (be) safe in the bank.
- The baggage handlers who ______________________________________ (unload) the plane ____________________________ (drop) Dempsey’s crate and he fell out.
Test each other on the order of what happened in the story, using the Past Perfect and Past Continuous, e.g.
“Arrested” “He was arrested years after they dropped the crate” “Take the money” “He had taken the money before the crate was dropped” etc.
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