1 Work in pairs. Write the crimes described.

1. Stealing large amounts of money 6. Setting fire to a building, cars or

with force or violence from a
bank, store, etc.
2. To bring illegal goods, like drugs,
into a country or to bring goods
into a country without paying
taxes.
3. To take something by force from
someone, often in the street.
4. To enter a house, often while no
one is in it, in order to steal
something.
5. Stealing something from a store.
property on purpose.
7. The act of illegally copying
computer programs, recordings,
films, etc. to sell them at much
cheaper prices.
8. Destroying private or public
property purposely.
9. To deceive or cheat someone to
get money.
10. Stealing, in general, usually without
violence.

2 Match these crime descriptions (a-i) with the crimes (1-10) from Exercise 1.

a. __________________ b.___________________ c._____________________

John James pretended to start a
business and persuaded some
people to lend him some money. He
used the money to go on a holiday
to the Caribbean.
e.____________________
Anne Clinton walked around the
department store and, making sure
no one was watching, put two
expensive watches into her bag.
g.______________________
Harry Lee waited on a dark corner
until the young woman turned into
the street. Then he jumped out, hit
her in the face, and ran off with her
leather handbag.
Peter Short stole a computer from
the company he worked for.
d.____________________
Nigel Handy waited until night,
carefully forced open the window
and climbed into the house. He
took the TV and a lot of money.
h.______________________
In July, Bit management software
filed a lawsuit against the US Navy,
claiming that it copied and installed
the company’s virtual reality
software on hundreds of thousands
of computers for which it did not
have licenses.
Johnnie Smeghurst set fire to his
school after failing all his exams.
f. __________________
John Bottomless was caught at the
customs with $500,000 worth of
cocaine hidden in the doors of his
car.
i.___________________
In 1865, seven bushwackers took
64,000 dollars from the Centralia
bank. They came to Springfield,
then south on the old Wilderness
Road, now highway 65, for about 50
miles. Two of them took the money
and hid it in a little cave.