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Grammar
1 Make questions with the prompts.
1 What/you/do/last night?
2 Where/you/go on holiday/last year?
3 Who/you/meet/at the club yesterday?
4 Why/you/get home/late/on Friday night?
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2 Answer the questions from 1 using
the words given.
1 Last night I ____________________________
(watch a new film on TV).
2 Last year we ___________________________
(not go).
3 ____________________________ (meet
James).
4 ____________________________ (go to a
party).
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3 Complete the sentences with the
correct past form of the verbs given.
1 When I __________ (switch on) the TV, they
__________ (talk) about a robbery.
2 When I __________ (get) home, I __________
(make) a sandwich.
3 As I __________ (pass) your house, I
__________ (see) someone in your back
garden.
4 At 10:30 last night I __________ (do) my
homework.
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Vocabulary
4 Read the descriptions and write the
correct words.
1 This person steals things from a house:
__________
2 This person hits people and takes their money:
__________
3 This person kills another person: ___________
4 This person damages property for fun:
__________
5 This person steals small things from shops:
__________
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5 Complete the sentences with the
correct form of the words from 4.
1 There are usually 20 __________ every month
in this town. People must lock their doors.
2 The __________ in this part of the city is
increasing. Every morning there is paint on the
walls of the buildings.
3 There was a __________ last night in our road.
The person stole Mrs Barn’s handbag.
4 __________ is a big problem for small shop
owners. They lose a lot of money through this.
5 Last year the police arrested someone for the
__________ of his wife and her boyfriend. He’s
in prison for life.
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6 Complete the sentences with these
prepositions.
out for into out up across
1 I was cleaning my room yesterday and I came
_____ an old diary from ten years ago.
2 The police are looking _____ two men in a
black car.
3 Can you find _____ when the exam starts?
4 The police are looking _____ the murder of a
shopkeeper in the village.
5 The stolen jewellery turned _____ in New York
three years later.
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Reading A Shaun was a good artist and George was a

good salesman.
7 Read the article about a family of
criminals from which some sentences B Why didn’t they buy expensive things or go
on nice holidays?
have been taken out. Choose the
correct sentences A–E to fill the gaps. C Last year the police arrested Shaun and his
parents, and Shaun is now in prison.
For over 17 years, Shaun Greenhalgh and his D How did they do this for so long?
elderly parents, George and Olive, sold copies of
real famous paintings and statues to museums and
art dealers all over the world. (1) ___ Why did no
one think that these pieces of art were not real?
Where did Shaun learn to copy art so cleverly? No E There wasn’t a big art studio.
one knows the answers to these questions! The
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(2) ___The story shocked the whole art world.
They are calling this one of the biggest art crimes
in history. Everyone is amazed that on one
Listening (Tests CD, Track 2)
suspected the family for such a long time.
When the police finally found them, the family 8 Listen to the conversation and decide
was living in a small house in Bolton. (3) ___ if the statements are true (T), false
Shaun did his work in a shed in the garden. This (F) or not mentioned (NM).
was where he copied paintings and statues – even
old Roman coins. The work didn’t take him long. 1 The train took three hours to get to T/F/NM
He says that he copied one famous Egyptian statue London.
of a Pharaoh’s daughter in half an hour! Shaun did
2 The train stopped because there were T/F/NM
the copies and then his father, 84-year-old George,
people on the railway track.
took them to museums and galleries to sell them.
(4) ___ The British Museum, The Tate Modern and 3 The robbers stole three million T/F/NM
other famous places all bought copies from the pounds worth of jewellery.
family.
It’s possible that the family made over a million 4 The girl videoed the police and the T/F/NM
pounds from their crimes. So why were they still robbers from the train window.
living in an old house? (5) ___ No one knows.
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work because he couldn’t sell his own paintings
and statues, not to make money. He just wanted to
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Use of English Writing

9 Complete the second sentence so 10 While you were at home today, you
that it means the same as the first, broke one of your mum’s favourite
using the word given. Do not change vases. You have to go out. Write a
the word given. Use between two and note for your mum. In your note, you
five words. should
1 I discovered that Mary and Roy are getting
 explain what happened
divorced.
OUT  apologize
I _______________ that Mary and Roy are
getting divorced.  offer to buy a new one.

2 I walked through the park and saw your cat. Write 30–35 words.
WHILE
_______________ through the park, I saw
your cat.
3 The police had no idea who stole the money.
WORK
The police couldn’t _______________ who
stole the money.
4 They arrested the old man for the murder of his
boss.
HE
They arrested the old man because
_______________ his boss. /5

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