2018-02-14
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1.To set free. 2. The plea (офиц. заявление) that the suspect was not in the place of the crime when it was committed. 3. A place in which justice is administered. 4. To bring an accusation against. 5. Testimony 6. To prove or declare guilty. 7. To enter a building or a vehicle by force. 8. To attack someone on the street or in a public place and take something from them, usually small amounts of money, jewellery, etc. It can’t be done inside a building. 9. To take from a person or a place sometimes with violence. It often involves large amounts of money, gold, etc. and is often connected with banks and institutions. 10. To take something illegally, usually secretly. 11. To enter a building with force and take things illegally, often from a house. 12. Punishment involving bodily pain. 13. Doing work for the community as punishment. 14. Money paid for the release of a person held as a prisoner. 15. The punishment given by a court of law. 16. A person who is thought to have committed a crime. 17. A place where people are kept as a punishment for crimes. 18. A sum of money that must be paid as punishment for breaking a law or rule. 19. Deceiving someone in order to make money or obtain goods illegally. 20. A person who sees a crime, and who appears in court to give evidence about it. 21. Taking someone away by force and illegally, and demanding a ransom in order to release them. 22. Money offered for helping the police to find a criminal or something which has been stolen. 23. To take and keep somebody prisoner with the authority of the law. 24. A person with the authority to decide cases in a court of law. 25. A group of people in a court of law who have been chosen to listen to the facts in a case and decide whether the accused person is guilty or innocent. 26. Being executed for a crime. 27. Murder of an important person, usually for political reasons.
Write a word which has the same meaning as the definitions in 1-6. The first letter of each word is given.
1. Breaking in to steal something b___________
2. Driving more quickly than the speed limit s____________
3. Killing unintentionally m___________
4. Killing intentionally m___________
5. Attacking and robbing violently m___________
6. The act of stealing t____________
7. Taking someone away by force k____________
8. Deceiving people in order to get money f____________
9. Parking where it is not allowed parking il_____
What types of crime are described in these situations?
A.
1. He threatened to send the love letters to her husband unless she gave him £500.
2. The telephone box had been smashed and there was graffiti all over the walls.
3. An old man has been attacked and robbed in a city street. Now he is recovering in hospital.
4. Department stores lose millions of pounds each year through goods being stolen off the shelves.
5. Thieves broke into the house while the family was away on holiday.
6. The young woman was sexually attacked as she walked across the dark park late at night.
7. He watched with satisfaction as the fire he lit burnt down the factory. “That’ll make them wish they’d never given me the sack (увольнять с работы),” he thought.
8. It was a perfect copy. It was so good, in fact, that it could even fool an expert.
9. The bank believed her to be trustworthy. They had no reason to suspect that she had transferred thousands of pounds to false accounts.
10. “If you want to see your child again, put £50,000 in an old suitcase and wait for further instructions.
11. George gave the man £50 in return for a small packet of heroin.[ʹhero(u)in]
12. It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining and people were sitting outside the café enjoying the sunshine. Then the bomb went off.
13. “If only I hadn’t brought these watches through customs,” she thought as she sat crying in the police station.
B.
1. A gang took a rich man’s son and asked the family for money.
2. She went to her ex-husband’s house and shot him dead.
3. A passenger on a flight made the pilot land in a desert.
4. After the party the man made the woman have sex against her will.
5. We came home from holiday and found that our TV had gone.
6. Someone tried to sell me some marijuana [͵ma:riʹ(h)wa:nə] during a concert.
7. When the border police searched his car, it was full of cigarettes.
8. Someone threw paint on the statue in the park
9. He said he’d send photos to a newspaper if the actress didn’t pay him a lot of money.
10. An armed man walked into a bank and shouted, “Hands up!”
11. A man transferred company money into his own bank account.
12. A builder offered a mayor (мэр) a free flat in return for a favour.
13. Two men left a bomb in the supermarket car park.
14. Someone stole my car last night from outside my house.
15. A man held out a knife and made me give him my wallet.
Complete 1-9 in the dialogue using these phrases.
would be enough prison sentence I think it’s
do you think would be I’m not sure does it mean
much more serious don’t you first offence
Ted You see this word “fraud”? What (1) ……?
Sally (2) …… getting money illegally.
Ted Actually, I think robbery’s a very serious crime, (3) ……?
Sally (4) ……. Surely fraud is (5) …… than robbery.
Ted Well, what (6) …… a suitable punishment for robbery?
Sally Perhaps a long (7) ……..
Ted Don’t you think a short one (8) ……?
Sally Well, maybe for the …….
Use one of the words in the correct form to complete these sentences.
| Sentence theft offence robbery witness to rob to mug punishment offender to steal burglary |
1. The …… he received was for five years.
2. The police say they have found a …… to the crime.
3. Community service is believed to be the most suitable …… for young ……
who have committed minor …….
4. The bank …… took place at 1 o’clock in the afternoon.
5. Someone …… Mark in the street. His watch and wallet were …….
6. The man was charged with the …… of a valuable painting.
7. Someone …… my bike last week. Since then I’ve had to walk to school.
8. While we were on holiday, there was a …… at the house next door.
9. When the thieves …… the jewellery shop, they …… over £50,000.
