Vocabulary and Speech Exercises

I. Find the words of opposite meaning in the text and fill the chart; translate the pairs of words into Russian:

II. Chose the word to describe crimes in this situation:

burglary, arson, vandalism, terrorism, forgery, blackmail, smuggling, fraud, rape, mugging, kidnapping, drug pushing, shoplifting.

He threatened to send the love letters to her husband unless she gave him 500 pounds.

The telephone box had been smashed, the young trees broke.

An old man has been attacked and robbed in a city street. He is recovering in hospital.

Department stores lose millions of pounds each year through goods being stolen off the shelves.

Thieves broke into the house while the family was away on holiday.

The young woman was sexually attacked as she walked across the dark park late at night.

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”, he thought.

It was a perfect copy. It was so good, in fact, that it could even fool an expert.

The bank believed her to be trustworthy. They had no reason to suspect that she had transferred thousands of pounds to false accounts.

If you want to see your child again, put $50.000 in an old suitcase and wait for further instructions.

George gave the man 50 pounds in return for a small packet of heroin.

It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining and people were sitting outside the café enjoying the sunshine. Then the bomb went off.

“If only I hadn’t brought these watches through customs,” she thought as she sat crying in the police station.

III. What do you call the criminals who commit these crimes? Choose the words to complete the sentences:

A burglar, a smuggler, a shoplifter, an arsonist, a kidnapper, a hijacker, a thief, a forger, a mugger, a fraudster, a robber, a murderer.

1) … sets fire to buildings/forests on purpose.

2) … takes someone by force and doesn’t release them.

3) … gains money or financial benefits by a trick or by lying.

4) … breaks into a building in order to steal things.

5) … copies work of art/documents/signatures/etc/ to deceive people.

6) … takes things into or out of the country illegally.

7) … internationally kills another person.

8) …steals things from a shop while pretending to be a customer.

9) … steals money or property from a bank/shop/vehicle/etc. using force of threats.

10) … illegally takes control of a plane or other vehicle using force.

11) … steals another person’s property.

12) … attacks someone violently in a street in order to steal money from them.

IV. Arrange the following crimes into two groups:

a) crimes against people;

b) crimes involving things or property.

Murder, rape, assault causing grievous bodily harm, mugging, robbery, burglary, car theft, homicide, arson, blackmail, embezzlement, fraud, pick pocketing, shoplifting, stealing.

V. Match the beginnings and the endings of the sentences; translate the sentences.

Date: 2015-12-24; view: 1856