EXERCISES AT PAGES 98-99-116-117

Ex. 11 page 99

A - The origins of a thief
B - The "Count" and the bank manager
C - A plan in Paris
D - Explaining the details
E - He does it again
F - Caught at last

Ex. 12 page 99
Nouns: alias, forger, con
Adjectives: controversial
Verbs: hand over, flee

Ex. 13 page 99

1. An alias is a false identity.
2. A con is when someone believes a criminal's lies and give him the money.
3. A person who makes realistic copies of money, documents, etc. is a forger.
4. When something causes arguments, we say it's controversial.
5. To flee is to escape quickly, especially when you are in danger
6. To hand over something is to give it to another person.

Ex. 14 page 99
When you come across new words in a text:

1. Don't panic - often you don't need them to understand the main ideas of the text
2. Decide what part of speech they are
3. Guess their meaning by looking carefully at the context.

Ex. 15 page 99

1. People still talk about Victor today because he committed some fascinating crimes.
2. Victor thought of his plan to sell the Eiffel tower while he was reading a newspaper in Paris.
3. The French businessmen thought Victor worked for the French Post Office.
4. Victor's victim, Poisson, didn't go to the police because he didn't want anyone to know how stupid he had been.
5. Victor sold the Eiffel Tower a second time because it had worked perfectly the first time.
6. The police had arrested Victor many times before 1935.

Ex. 16 page 99
A: I think Victor Lustig was a bad criminal and should be condemned.
B: I don't agree. The people he conned were greedy.
A: However, Victor Lustig has to be condemned because his behaviour is improper toward the honest workers.
B: Planning fascinating crimes requires cleverness.
A: But it is an evil activity, and evil activities are negative at any rate, even if they are creative or intelligent. Victor Lustig is a wicked criminal and has to be punished as soon as possible.
B: The people he conned were also gullible and clumsy. If they had been more careful and sensible, they wouldn't have been conned.
A: It is no excuse. Lustig acted against law and so he has to be condemned.

Ex. 13 page 116
Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph. B
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. A
Agatha Christie wrote crime novels. C
Albert Einstein proposed the theory of relativity. D

Ex. 14 page 116

1. If Edison hadn't invented the phonograph, the music industry would have developed in a very different way.
2. They wouldn't have made a lot of films like Murder on the Orient Express if Agatha Christie hadn't written novels.
3. If Leonardo da Vinci hadn't been a famous painter, Dan Brown wouldn't have written The da Vinci code.
4. Einstein wouldn't have won the Nobel prize for physics in 1921 if he hadn't purposed the theory of relativity.

Ex. 15 page 117
d) People who became successful after they finished school.

Ex. 16 page 117
d) What some talented people had in common.

Ex.17 page 117

1. The children in paragraph 1 had difficult time at school.
2. Some famous writers, composers and inventors had similar problems when they were children.
3. People with dyslexia were probably born with the disability.
4. Agatha Christie started writing because she wanted to show her sister that she could write.
5. The people mentioned in the last paragraph are well-known people who had problems with reading and writing.

Ex. 18 page 117