11B  The missing link

Vocabulary extension: linking words

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1  Some years
It all started one
ago we had a very I nearly got a
day when I couldn’t
strange burglary in as a result, divorce from my although
find the key to my
our country house husband!
jewellery box,
and,

I was sure I had left

I couldn’t open the I took it to a I didn’t have
it on my bedside for that reason,
box and, locksmith to open. another key and
table as usual.

The next day my

therefore, I left it open. wedding ring had a cheap bangle , too.
gone and

I was very upset and my husband thought There was no sign

spent hours looking despite this, I was inventing of anybody breaking besides,
for it but things. into our house and

so when my
diamond
we had a engagement ring
he was in the house
sophisticated alarm also disappeared,
What’s more, when the things However,
system that had he began to suspect
disappeared,
never gone off! I was selling my
things because I had
debts!

the burglar had

one day he was My husband been caught in
resting on the bed the burglar entered. couldn’t believe his although the act, he was
when eyes and never arrested or
punished. Why not?

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 11B  The missing link
Instructions
You will need: one set of cut-up cards and one copy of the complete
worksheet per pair or group

• Shuffle each set of cards before giving them out. Students work
in pairs or small groups to put the story in order. Explain that the
opening sentence is numbered 1 and that the story is told from the
wife’s point of view. Tell them that it will help if they first identify
the cards with the ten linking words or phrases.
• At the end of the activity, give out the complete worksheet for
students to check their answers. In open class, discuss a possible
answer to the final question, why the burglar was never arrested or
punished.

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