Ex. 7. Make the headline fit the crime. Match the headlines to the first lines of the stories that follow.

1. SURVEY PINPOINTS BURGLARY BLACKSPOTS

2. PC CLINGS FOR HIS LIFE TO JOYRIDER CAR

3. CITY MUGGER

4. PICKPOCKETS CLEANING UP

5. HIT AND RUN ROBBERY

6. BOY, 9, IN GUN HOLD-UP

7. RAM-RAID ON HOME

8. JCB RAIDERS PULL OFF HOLE IN THE WALL HEIST

9. COP’S SON RAIDED SHOPS

10. FRENCH GANG ROBS BRITONS ON TRAIN

a. Pickpockets “accidentally” smear visitors with ice-cream or ketchup, then insist on wiping them down.

b. A joy-rider sped off with a policeman desperately clinging to his windscreen, a court heard yesterday.

c. A gang used a bulldozer to steal a hole-in-the-wall cash dispenser yesterday.

d. A pedestrian was left badly bruised after he was run over by a car and robbed.

e. A schoolboy was robbed at gunpoint by a 9-year old bandit.

f. Burglars smashed their way into a family home by driving through the patio windows.

g. Fourteen British tourists have been robbed of cash and jewellery worth thousands of pounds by a gang of French train thieves who sprayed them with a powerful sleeping gas.

h. London financial centre, the City, has issued an alert to banks and financial institutions around the world after a robbery in which nearly £300 million pounds of financial documents, or bonds, were stolen.

i. The son of a top Scotland Yard commander took part in smash-and-grab raids which netted a £20,000 haul.

j. You are six times more likely to return from holiday to find your home has been broken into if you live in a top-storey flat in Glasgow than a five-bedroomed detached house in Aberdeen.

Ex. 8. Write the answers to the clues in the puzzle. What crime can you find in the shaded box?

1 Killing a person illegally and deliberately. 1

2 Violently forcing someone to have sex. 2

3 Dishonest behaviour in order to trick

someone .

4Robbery with violence. 6

5and6Another expression for7

“capital punishment”.

7A violent attack on someone.

8 Getting money from someone by 11

threatening to make smth unpleasant.

9 Money paid as a punishment for a crime.

10 A punishment for a criminal who has been

found guilty in court.

11 Entering a building by force and stealing things.

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