Week 05 – Intermediate 2 – News in brief
I)
Reading
& Vocabulary
1)
Match the news stories (1-6) with headlines
(a-f)
1.
A television set was stolen from a Liverpool
police station, while police officers were out fighting crime.
2.
Fugitive lames Sanders, who escaped from
jail in 1975, was arrested in Texas after ringing the FBI to ask if he was
still on its 'wanted' list.
3.
An 85-year-old man was stopped and escorted off
the M4 motorway by the traffic police because he was riding in a wheelchair.
The wheelchair was being pushed along the slow lane by his 65-year-old son.
4.
Burglar Frank Gort broke down in court and cried
when he was sentenced to seven years in jail, claiming it was his unlucky
number. An understanding judge in San Antonio Texas took pity and gave
him eight years instead.
5.
Police cars were involved in a dramatic chase
after a notice was spotted in the back window of a car saying, 'Help us, we
have been kidnapped'. It had been put there by four unhappy children who didn't
want to go on holiday with their parents.
6.
Prison authorities in New Zealand have been
embarrassed by the escape of convicted thief Cass Mei, who managed to
run faster than guards at the prison hospital. He was being treated for asthma
and a dislocated knee.
a. Don’t
ask b. police theft c. kidnapped d. slow lane
e.
unfit to guard f.
kind judge
2)
Which stories do you like best?
3) Complete
the sentences using underlined words from the stories.
a) ________________ are
people who fight crime and try to catch criminals.
b) ________________ are
people who patrol roads and motorways.
c) People on a ______________
have committed crimes but haven't been arrested yet.
d) A ___________________ is
someone who sentences criminals in court.
e) A ___________________
is someone who has stolen something and has been sentenced in court.
f) A ____________________
is someone who has escaped from jail and is hiding from the police.
4) Use
the following words to complete three more stories:
arrested burglar
chase
court
escorted
stolen
thief traffic police
ONE DRINK TOO MANY
A __________________ who
stole a bottle of whisky from a supermarket was ___________ for shoplifting when
he went back for a bottle of Coke.
BOY RACER
Police cars were involved
in a dramatic _________________ when an 18-year-old, driving his parents' new
car, reached 160 kilometres per hour before he was stopped
by ____________ and ______________
off the motorway.
SHOE REVENGE
During divorce
proceedings, a woman told the ____________ that one shoe of every pair she
owned had been ____________________ from her house, She suspected that the ________________
was her husband, who was angry after she had sold the personalised registration
number of his Ferrari.
II) Pronunciation
1) Listen
and repeat the past participle endings for regular verbs commonly used
in the passive.
ed= /t/
|
ed=/d/
|
ed=/id/
|
Asked
Based
|
Believed
Called
|
Arrested
Decided
|
2) Practise
saying the past participle for the following verbs:
check describe escape
expect
force
involve
name need report stop
treat use
Add them to the correct column in the table above.
III)
Grammar: passives
1) Rewrite
the following in the passive to recreate sentences from the news stories. Make
the underlined words or phrases the subject of the passive verb.
a)
Someone stole a television set. _________________________________________
b)
Someone was treating him for asthma. He ________________________________
c)
Someone has kidnapped us. We ________________________________________
d) Four
unhappy children had put it there. It ________________________________
2)
Look at your sentences (a-d) above. Tick the
following explanations if you think they are correct.
a) In
sentences a, b, c and d the object of the active verb has become the subject of
the passive verb.
b) In
sentences a, band c the 'doer' of the action (= the agent) is either unknown,
unimportant
or obvious.
c) In
sentence d the 'doer' of the action (= the agent) is mentioned after the verb
using by.
IV)
Homework:
Rewrite
these newspaper extracts in the passive to make them sound more natural.
Don't
mention the agent.
a) The
Oscar committee has announced the Oscar nominations.
__________________________________________________________________
b)
Doctors are treating the troubled film star for 'exhaustion' at Meadows Rehabilitation
Centre in Arizona.
___________________________________________________________________
c) The
record company has released the singer's long-awaited album to rave reviews.
____________________________________________________________________
d)
Kidnappers released the hostages last night and they are on their way home to
their relieved families.
____________________________________________________________________
e) The
central bank will reduce interest rates by 1% before the end of the year according
to most financial observers.
____________________________________________________________________
f)
People have accused the fashion industry of encouraging young girls to go on
starvation
diets.
____________________________________________________________________
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