Grammar Unit 5
1 Complete the texts. Use the past simple or past
perfect form of the verbs in the boxes.
call check break into realize steal
On Thursday morning, Mr and Mrs Smith
(1) ___________
realized that burglars (2) ___________
had broken
their house and (3) stole
___________ a laptop. After
they (4) ___________
had checked that their children were OK,
they (5) ___________
called the police.
arrive enter lock not do realize
When the police (6) ___________
arrived , they couldn’t
understand how the burglars (7)had___________
entered the
house. There weren’t any broken doors or windows.
‘(8) ____
Did you ___________
lock the back door before
you went to bed?’ the police officer asked.
Mrs Smith suddenly (9) ___________
realised that she
(10) hadn't
___________
done it that night. Obviously, the
burglars had just walked in!
2 Write sentences and questions using the past
perfect and the past simple.
when / detective / finish / writing / report / he /
go / home
When the detective had finished writing the
report, he went home.
1 I / feel / tired / because / I / work / hard / all day
I felt tired because I had worked hard all day
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2 Tom / win / even though / he / not play / before
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Tom won even though he hadn't played before
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3 after/ Anna / finish / homework / she / text / best
friend
_____________________________________
Did Anna text her best friend after
she had finished her homework?
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4 you / meet / that man / before / you / chat / him
today / ?
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Had you met that men before you cheated
him today
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5 they / not be / allowed / enter / because / they /
forget / tickets
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They weren't allowed to enter because
they had forgotten the tickets
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6 how many crimes / he / commit / before / police /
arrest / him / ?
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How many crimes had he commited before
_____________________________________
the police arrested him?
3 Match sentence halves 1–6 to A–F and complete
them with who, which, whose or where.
1 Is this the shop ___
d
2 Look! That’s the actor ___
c
3 This special language class is for students a
___
4 Mobile phone are things e
___
5 What’s the name of your friend b
___
6 Those are the students ___
f
A _______
whichfirst language isn’t English.
B _______
whose dad is a head teacher?
C _______
who plays a detective on TV!
D _______
where you saw someone shoplifting?
E _______
which no one can live without.
F _______
who raised a lot of money for charity.
4 Rewrite the underlined sentences using a modal
of deduction. Keep the same meaning.
Maybe Dan is tired. He got up so early today.
Dan might be tired.
1 That’s definitely Amelia’s brother. He looks
just like her.
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That must be Amelia's brother. He looks just like he
2 Perhaps Sara will be late. She had a lot of work.
Maybe Sara will be later. She had a lot of work
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3 I’m sure he isn’t the burglar. He’s been in prison
since last year.
He can't be the burglar. He's been in prision since last year
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4 There’s no question that he’s very intelligent.
He got 98% in the test.
He must be very intelligent. He got 98% in the test
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5 There’s no possibility that she is your friend.
She said some horrible things about you.
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She can't be your friend. She said some horrible things about you
6 It’s possible that he’s an offender. I know he’s
got a weapon.
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He could be an offender. I know he's got aa weapon
5 Complete the sentences with a modal of
deduction and be + the -ing form of a verb.
look play take use watch
Mum and Dad must be taking us on holiday.
I heard them booking flights for all of us!
1 She ________________
might be watching TV in her room, but
I’m not sure.
2 Ben must
________________
be playing football today. He’s
taken his kit and his boots.
3 You could
________________
be looking very carefully because I
know I put it in your room. It’s on your bed.
4 Oh, no! Someone ________________
might be using my credit
card. I didn’t buy these things.
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Vocabulary Unit 5
1 Complete the text with the words in the box.
There are two words that you do not need.
case court credit card fraud crime scene
defendant evidence jury mugger prison trial
The (1) _________
jury in the (2) _________
trial
Carl Tyson, who is accused of (3) _________
mugger ,
has just left the (4) _________
court . It is now the
job of these 12 members of the public to
consider the (5) _________
court they have heard
over the last three days and decide whether
the (6)defendant
_________ is guilty of this crime. The
detectives investigating this complicated
(7) _________
case believe that if Tyson is found
guilty, he should go to (8) _________
prison for at
least ten years.
2 Read the newspaper stories. Write the crimes.
Police have managed to find 21-year-old Charlotte
Colstein two weeks after she went missing. Her
father, Robert Colstein, the millionaire owner of
several media companies, informed the police after
receiving an anonymous phone call.
1 KIDNAPPING
____________
3 Complete the texts with the words in the boxes.
For each text there is one word that you do
not need.
fingerprints sample suspect witness
After arresting the (1) _________
suspect , he was taken to
of the local police station where a police officer took
fingerprints and a (3) sample
the man’s (2) _________ _________ of
his hair.
burglary motive victim weapon
motive for the murder
There seems to be no (4) _________
of an 85-year-old man in Grantley last week. Police
burglary which had
initially believed it was a (5) _________
gone wrong. However, according to relatives of the
victim
(6) _________ , nothing was stolen from the house.
offender peers shoplifting witnesses
A 16-year-old (7) offender
_________ convicted of
(8) _________
shoplifting last year is now visiting schools to
encourage his (9) _________
peers not to break the law.
He describes how having a criminal record really
can ruin your life.
4 Underline five mistakes in the text and correct
them.

Border security officials have arrested two Brazilian

women trying to bring a rare snake into Britain. The
two-metre boa constrictor was asleep in one of the
women’s bags.
2 SMUGGLING
____________

Michelle Sanders, who lost her bag in the High

Street area on Saturday, has since discovered that
another ‘Michelle Sanders’ has bought goods,
opened bank accounts and ordered official
documents.
3 IDENTITY
____________ THEFT
The letter mentioned certain photos and asked for a
large sum of money. The man’s wife, whose name
we cannot give for legal reasons, found the letter
and contacted the police.
4 BLACKMAIL
____________
In this picture, I can see different groups of people.
In the background, there are three people at a table.
It must be a meeting – I’m not sure. There’s a
woman on the left and it looks like she’s reading.
Behind the table, there are some people standing
up. They seem to be looking at a large mirror. Next
to this, in the right, there’s a painting. I definitely
think it may be an art exhibition.

In two separate cases in the Hallgarth area, _________________________________________

residents came home on Saturday night to broken _________________________________________
windows and doors with the loss of TVs, laptops _________________________________________
and jewellery. _________________________________________
5 BURGLARY
____________ _________________________________________