4.1 Catch me if you can CELE question tags use intonation to check and confirm information Reading and listening Look atthe photos and fim poster. How do you think they are connected? 1b Work in pairs. Look at the words in the box from the article below. What do you think the atticle is about? charm cheated consultant good-looking _ illegally prison $3 million trickster © Read the article, Match the headings (5) to the paragraphs (A-E). 4. Childhood and tricks Frank today 3 Wanted all over the world 4 The FBI's opi 5. Three top jabs and five happy years n of Frank. The true story of a EN BE) A Frank Abagnale, a good-looking American boy with more dreams than money, pretended to be first a pilot, then a doctor and then a lawyer. For five years he travelled the world for free, stayed in expensive hotels and had relationships with beautiful women. By the age of twenty-one he had tricked and cheated his way to $2.5 milion B In the golden age of lames Bond, Abagnale really ‘was an international man of mystery. He was wanted by the FBl and interpol (International Police) in ‘twenty-six counties. His good looks and greying hair helped him, but his charm was his most important tool. He dressed well and everybody believed the stories he made up. Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays Frank Abagnale in the film Catch me if you can said, “Frank Abagnale is one of the greatest actors who has walked the Earth. c ‘Abagnale was a lonely child. When his mother, who was French, broke up with his father, a New York shopkeeper, Abagnale had to choose which parent to lve with. Instead, aged sixteen, he dropped out Cf school, ran away from home and began his life as an international trickster. He used magnetic ink to change bank code numbers ilegally. He managed to steal $40,000 of other customers’ money before the banks worked out what he was doing. He also got a Fan Am pilot's uniform by saying that his was lost. 50] at the dry deaner$ and that he had an urgent fight. egotistical mystery pretended This allowed him to stay in any hotel he wanted: Pan Am always paid the bill. He even pretended to be a doctor and worked as a hospital administrator for a year. With no formal traning, he picked up the skils by reading medical books and watching other doctors at work, D ‘Abagnale broke the law repeatedly. He ran out of luck in France, where he spent time in prison, before the FBI finally caught up with him in the US. Despite his crimes, Abagnale never had any enemies. Joseph Shea, the FBI man who arrested him and later became his friend, said, "think Frank is close to genius. What he did as @ teenager is incredible. His crimes weren't physical. There were no guns, no knives, he just used his brain, He’ charming and |admite him. think he's @ good man and a moral character, but, Tike anybody, he wants to better himself and in this country, money is the way to do it. He makes $3 milion a year and that’ a lot more than | ever made’ — These days Abagnale doesn’t need to trick anybody: he is a successful consultant. He advises companies on security, and he also lectures ~ for free — at the FBI Academy. Its ironic that he has tended up working for the people who were trying to catch him for so long! He wrote his autobiography in the 1970s and sold the film rights for $250,000. Abagnale says, ‘When | was twenty-eight | thought it would be great to have 2 movie about my life, but when | was twenty-eight, like when I was sixteen, I was egotistical and self-centred. We all grow up.’ That's true, But not many people grow up like Frank AbagnaleVocabulary | phrasal verbs Find nine phrasal verbs in the article and put them in the correct, place in the mind maps. learn without formal study ent (a story, @ song, a joke) E « become an beina paar situation ater a series of events soy bang teachsomenne ater together Sees a period of following/ me chasing EAB a Read the article again and answer the questions, b 4 How old was Frank when he a____. have none left, iehitgme? calculate Gs finished) 2 What did he look lke? 3. How did he get his first ‘ $40,000? stop going to school 4, How did he get a pilot's without finishing your uniform? studies 5 Whowas Joseph Shea? What type of person do you think he was? EBB one of the sentence endings is not possible. Which one? 6 What does Frank do now? He dropped out of (@) hs-exams (b) school (9 university 7 How does Frank feel about his You can drop out of school and university but not exams. past? 4 I broke up with (a) my girlfriend (b) my relationship (€) my husband. Db © +2» Close your books 2 They made up (a) stories (b) an excuse (© acting. and listen to a summary of 3, We worked out (@) what the problem was (b) the answer (¢) wrong. Frank's story. Write down seven ‘4. She picked up (a) Spanish very quickly (6) some information mistakes in the summary and (anew haircut, correct them, 5 We ran out of (a) enough milk (b) money (0) things to do. Frank Abagnale wasn’t English. 6 I caught up with (@) my studies (b) myself (9 you easily. He was American, 7. She ended up (@) living with me (b) work as a doctor () in Warsaw, EBB Work in pairs and discuss the 4 questions Speaking 4. Joseph Shea said, ‘I think GBB Work in pairs and retell Abagnale's story using the phrases below. he’s a good man and a moral character.’ What do you think of Frank? 2 Frank says,‘ thought it would be great to have a movie about my life." Would you like a movie about your life? Why/ He ran out of luck in France .. ‘Why not? Which actor would The FBI finally caught up with him.. ‘you choose to act as you? 7 He ended up working for. 4. His mother broke up with .. 2 He dropped out of. 3. He made $40,000... the banks worked out what he was doing .. 4 He pretended to be ... he picked up the skills by reading medical books.