Speak about the episode from the book you like most of all in detail

3. Explain the following words and word combinations in English: loan, client loyalty, discount, licence, profit, alibi, attempted murder, break-in, fence, small-time thieving, get down to business, go missing, abandon, emergency services, car jack, foot passengers, funeral, lay-by, at random, put the car into reverse, receipt, second year running.

Complete the gaps.

It was late afternoon. John Bentley lay on the bed in the 1…. Alone in the 2… bedroom of the house in Brentwood, and 3… to leave it, he had plenty of time to 4… about what had happened. He and Linda were in big 5…, it seemed to him. He had 6… identity now, and he was a 7… in his own home.

He tried to 8… his future, but he couldn’t 9… anything to believe 10…. He had slept 11… of the earlier 12… of the day. But his sleep had been troubled by bad 13… and he had been 14… from time to time by the 15… of the telephone. But now he was wide 16…, waiting for Linda to 17…. She had gone to 18… the body of her ‘husband’ and then to make arrangements 19… his funeral.

At last, John could lie 20… no longer. He went 21… downstairs to the kitchen and made himself a 22…. He was still there at five-thirty 23… Linda came home. She was 24… Colin Fenton’s suitcase. She was 25… when she saw John 26… the kitchen.

5. Unjumble the letters to complete the sentences below: sorpopal, stewins, crimfon, tecscan, emportray, crysuite, findyeti, endabodan, clanfinai.

1. The police asked Linda to … her dead husband’s body.

2. Mark Ashwood was the only person to … Colin’s car crash.

3. Linda made a … to Colin: she offered him £10,000 to be her husband’s alibi.

4. Linda worked at Sandwell’s, so she knew all about the … system which guarded the strong-room.

5. Linda and John … their car at Dover and got on a ferry to France.

6. Before she could inherit her aunt’s property, Linda had to … her real identity.

7. Colin needed to borrow some money for a short time. He asked the bank for a … loan.

8. Mr. Booker said that Colin’s … situation was very serious.

9. One difference between John and Colin was that they spoke with different ….