Pag. 94

n. 1

Guard: guardia

Robber: ladro, rapinatore

Thief: ladro

To steal: rubare

To arrest: arrestare

To escape: fuggire

To break into: entrare illegalmente

Burglar: scassinatore, ladro

Safe: cassaforte

 

n. 3

1 – B

2 – A

3 – C

 

n.4

1)    Had spent

2)    Had already cut

3)    Had climbed

4)    Had never seen

5)    Had stolen

6)    Had he forgotten

7)    Had not worn

 

n.5

1)    This morning John realized that someone had broken into his car in the night.

2)    The thieves escaped before the police had arrived.

3)    We didn’t hear the burglars because we had forgotten to lock the front door.

4)    After Sandra had eaten her first pizza she ordered another one!

5)    We watched TV after we had finished our homework.

6)    They went out as soon as they had lunch.

 

n.6

Before I arrived at school this morning:

·         I had drunk a cup of milk

·         I had had a shower

·         I had run to catch the coach

·         I had read a book travelling to school

 

 

n. A

1)    Vandalism

2)    Shoplifting

3)    Mugging

 

n. B

Crime	Criminal	Action
Vandalism	A vandal	To vandalise (compiere atti di vandalismo)
Mugging	A mugger	To mug/to rob/to steal (aggredire)
Shoplifting	A shoplifter	To shoplift/to rob/to steal (taccheggiare)
Theft	Thief	To rob/to steal (rubare)
Robbery	Robber	To rob/to steal (rapinare)
Burglary	A burglar	To burgle (scassinare)
Murder	A murderer	To murder (assassinare)

 

N. C

1)    Cheating in an exam: 2

2)    Fare dodging: 3

3)    Shoplifting: 3

4)    Software piracy: 2

5)    Speeding: 5

6)    Vandalism: 5

 

n. E

-      Vandalise

-      Shoplifter

-      Mugger

-      Criminal

-      Arrest

-      Run away

-      Stolen

-      Police

 

n. 7

1)    Use a/an with names of jobs

2)    Use the with family names, parts of days, rooms/places around the house

3)    Use no article with days, months, years, street names, towns, meals.

 

n.8

1)    F – the Cooper and Austin families had been neighbours since 1997.

2)    T

3)    F – they fell in love a few years later.

4)    T

5)    T

6)    F – Chris damaged the Cooper’s garden on Friday night.

 

n.10

It was early in the morning on Friday the 13^th of May, 1998. A man walked into a bank in Hastings Street, Vancouver. He gave a note to the cashier. The note said, “Give me all your money, I have a gun”. The cashier told the robber “I’m sorry, I don’t speak English very well. This is a bank for French-speakers.” The robber left and later he decided to try again in a English-speaking bank. He showed the same note and walked away with £ 500.

 

n.11

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

 

n.12

Nouns: alias, forger, con

Adjectives: controversial

Verbs: hand over, flee

 

n. 13

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.

 

n. 14

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.

n.15

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.

 

n. 17

-      Dead: morto

-      Handgun: pistola

-      To inherit: ereditare

-      To investigate: investigare

-      Jealous: geloso

-      Love affair: relazione sentimentale

-      Motive: ragione

-      Murdered: assassino

-      Personal assistant: assistente personale

-      Silencer: silenziatore

-      Suspect: sospetto

 

n. 18

1)    Tina was murdered last night during a dinner party.

2)    Her personal assistant Delia Adams did.

3)    The murdered had used a handgun with a silencer.

 

n. 19

I think Bobbie Davies has the strongest motive for murdering Tina. He may have been irate with her after their argument.

 

n.23

Boy: Oh no! Someone’s stolen my motorbike!

Girl: No way! I don’t believe it!

 

Teacher: Congratulations Magda! You got the highest mark in the exam!

Student: Really? It can’t be true!

 

Little girl: Dad, I’m scared. I think there’s a ghost under my bed … I heard a noise.

Father: Don’t be silly! There’s nothing to worry about.

 

Teacher: I’m afraid your son was cheating in the exam.

Mother: Well … I’m shocked!

 

Man: Uh oh! One of them has got a gun!

Woman: I’ve never been so frightened in my life!

Man: Don’t panic! They haven’t seen us!

 

n. 24

Shock and surprise: No way!/I don’t know what to say!/it can’t be true!/I’m shocked!/I don’t believe it!

Fear: I’m so worried!/I’m so scared!/I’m terrified!/I’ve never been so frightened in my life!

Asking for explanations: What’s wrong?/What’s the matter?/What’s happened?

Telling someone not to worry: don’t worry!/Take it easy!/don’t be silly-scared!/don’t panic!

Giving reassurance: Cheer up!/It’s not the end of the world./Everything will be all right-OK/there’s nothing to worry about/there’s probably a simple explanation.

 

Pag. 102

 

n.2

1)    Then was the first computer made?

2)    Who were those houses built by?

3)    Where is the best Italian wine made?

4)    A lot of money is always spent at Christmas.

5)    That car was bought by my brother.

6)    In the 1970s CDs weren’t invented.

 

n.3

1)    The first edition of “the Guardian” was published in 1821.

2)    A lot of young people are killed in road accidents every year.

3)    Bad behaviour isn’t tolerated in this country.

4)    This film was directed by Martin Scorsese fifteen years ago.

5)    Students have been always encouraged to study before exams.

6)    Was the last lesson taught by Miss Price?

7)    The Euro hasn’t been used in Britain yet.

 

n.4

1)    A new shopping centre is being built on that hill. It will be completed next year.

2)    A lot of documentaries have been shown on TV recently.

3)    The job was finished last week but unfortunately the workers won’t be paid for several months.

4)    A school trip to Oxford is being planned but we don’t know when it will happen.

5)    A new file can be created on the desktop if you click on this icon.

6)    Look! The photo in this magazine  was printed upside down!

7)    A lot of houses are broken into every year in this town but the burglars are never caught.

8)    Alcohol shouldn’t be sold near football stadiums in my opinion.

 

n.5

1)    Has your TV been repaired yet? No, it is still broken.

2)    Will the lesson be finished soon? Yes, it will.

3)    This soap opera can be watched on Channel 8 every day.

4)    My car is being fixed by a mechanic at the moment.

5)    I think children should be seen and not heard.

6)    This article was written by a famous reporter.

7)    The school is closed from next week until the beginning of September.

8)    We haven’t been told the date of our English exam yet.

9)    £ 800,000 were stolen from the Nat West Bank last month.

10) DVDs are being sold outside the supermarket today, but they’re illegal.

11) I’m afraid you can’t be given your diploma: your exam results are terrible.

12) I’ve lost my cat. It hasn’t been seen anywhere for a month and I think it has been killed.

 

n.7

When Kay came home, she saw that somebody had burgled her flat. The burglars had come in through the window but they hadn’t broken it because Kay had forgotten to close it. They hadn’t found any money and they hadn’t wanted her laptop computer, but Kay’s roller-skates had disappeared and they had taken her pet hamster! The police said the thieves must have been children.

 

n. 8

1)    After we had finished lunch we went to the cinema, but the film had already started so we came home again.

2)    Fred got the idea after he had seen a film about a successful bank robbery, but the police caught him because he hadn’t planned his escape!

3)    When I arrived at the restaurant I remembered that I hadn’t locked my front door so I didn’t stay there for long.

4)    When she hide her husband’s body, she phoned the police and said she hadn’t seen him for two days.

 

n. 9

Hi Ann,

At last we’re back from our holidays! We were taken to the airport at midnight because we had booked a very early flight and we got home at 7 a.m. on Saturday morning. We were all really tired because we hadn’t sleep all night. But when I opened the front door, I couldn’t believe my eyes! I had never seen anything like it before! Someone had burgled our house! We quickly phoned our neighbours, the Simpsons, and they told us that the police had caught a young man in our street. Later, in the afternoon, we were visited by a police officer. She said that we had left the door open – what idiots! Anyway, the man is being interviewed right now and I hope that our stuff will return soon …

Take care,

Julia

 

n. 10

A)   What’s the matter?

B)   I had my bag stolen and there are my keys and my address inside!

A)   Oh, you should not keep your address and your keys together.

B)   I know! I’ve never felt so stupid in all my life!

A)   Don’t panic! Everything will be all right.

 

Pag. 116

 

n. 13

1)    Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph. B

2)    Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. A

3)    Agatha Christie wrote crime novels. C

4)    Albert Einstein proposed the theory of relativity. D

 

n. 14

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.

 

n. 15

d) People who became successful after they finished school.

 

n. 16

d) What some talented people had in common.

 

n.17

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.

 

n. 25

1)    Next week I’m going to Treviso.

2)    Next month if I’m not very busy, I’ll fly to Rome.

3)    My ambition is to study a scientific subject at University.

4)    I’d learn Japanese if I had the chance.

 

Pag. 120

n. 2

1)    Sue said that there had been an accident.

2)    Mark said he was doing his homework.

3)    Steve said he wouldn’t finish that project that night.

4)    Pat and Jo said we had never been abroad.

5)    Mr. Jones said he was sorry he was late.

6)    Karen said he had forgotten her schoolbag that morning.

7)    Carla said Mum hadn’t bought any milk.

8)    Kate said she would phone Tim the following week.

9)    Astrid asked me if I would give him my book.

10) John asked me if I was working at that time.

11) Ian asked me if I had brought my homework to school.

12) Rosie asked me if Stuart had ever arrived on time.

 

n. 3

Maria	Have you seen the new Orlando Bloom film?
Me	Who’s Orlando Bloom?
Maria	I’m amazed! Orlando Bloom has been in a lot of fantastic films like The Lord of the Rings and you don’t know who he is! He was also in Pirates of the Caribbean with Johnny Depp.
Me	I remember that film, but I  didn’t like any of the actors.
Maria	Anyway, I’m going to see the film tomorrow. Do you want to come with me?
Me	Yes, I’ll come… if you pay!

 

n. 4

1)    Sam told me that he was hungry.

2)    He asked if I had seen the film before.

3)    Tom said it was the end of the lesson.

4)    She asked if I’d meet her that night.

5)    We said that we would go home.

6)    He asked me if it was raining.

 

n.5

1)    If I had seen Steve, I would have invited him to the party.

2)    If it hadn’t snowed, we would have gone to the park.

3)    We would have stayed to the end of the film if the acting had been better.

4)    Andy wouldn’t have won the match, if he hadn’t played well.

5)    If you had reminded me, I would have remembered to do my homework.

6)    If I had studied harder, I would have got a good mark.

7)    If you had given me your umbrella, I wouldn’t have got wet.

8)    We wouldn’t have had the accident, if you had driven more slowly.

 

n. 6

If I had been born in London, I would have lived near my uncle. If I had lived near my uncle, I would have gone to school with my cousin Jane. If I had gone to school with Jane, I would have met her best friend, Susan, when I was a child. If I had met Susan when I was younger I would have fallen in love with her. If I had fallen in love with Susan years ago, I wouldn’t have asked Carol to marry me. If I hadn’t married Carol last spring, I would be free to marry Susan now!

 

n. 7

1)    If Marta calls tomorrow, will you tell her I’m out?

2)    If Marta called, I would be so happy, but I know it’s impossible.

3)    If Marta had called last night, what would I have said her?

4)    Where would you go on holiday if you had all the money in the world?

5)    If we hadn’t gone to the cinema last Saturday, we would go on Sunday instead.

6)    If Jim asks me to watch another horror film this weekend, I’ll scream!

7)    Would you have studied harder at scuola media if you had had different teachers?

8)    Who would you marry if you had the choice between Martha and Lisa?

9)    If I had seen you at the bus stop yesterday, I would have offered you a lift.

10) I wouldn’t study Law at university if I were you. It’s really hard.

 

n. 8

1)    I wish I’d been at the concert with you. PS

2)    I wish we hadn’t been so silly. PS

3)    I wish Steve lived nearer to my house. PR

4)    I wish I were rich. PR

5)    I wish my cat hadn’t died. PS

6)    I wish I could speak perfect English! PR

 

n. 10

When Pete was 20 he met a beautiful girl called Sara. He thought she wouldn’t be interested in him if he said that he was unemployed and untalented, so he told her that he was studying to be a doctor and that he played the guitar in a band in his free time. Sara thought Pete was very interesting so when he asked her if she wanted to go out with him she said yes, she did. Perhaps if she had known the truth she would have said no. Anyway, very soon Pete wished he had told the truth because one lie lied to another and another. If he had been honest in the beginning things would have been easier for him. Of course, in the end somebody told the girl that Pete had lied and she said she would never speak to him again. Now Pete is older and wiser and if he falls in love again one day he won’t lie.

 

n. 11

1.    What is your dream?

2.    I’d love to live in another country.

3.    If you had the choice, what country would you go to?

4.    If I had studied Spanish at school, I’d have chosen Argentina.

5.    I like speaking Spanish too. Why don’t we enroll in a Spanish course this summer?

6.    Good idea!