Richard Mann has been committing crimes since he was a boy.

1. When he was only 15 he _____________ telephone boxes and public toilets.

2. As he grew older, he _____________ old ladies in the street and stole their money.

3. He also _____________ banks, post offices and jewellery shops.

4. On one occasion, he _____________ almost £20,000 from a post office.

5. In his late twenties, he _____________ cigarettes and alcohol from one country to another.

6. During his only proper job in an office, he _____________ the accounts and pocketed thousands of pounds.

7. He then started _____________ drugs.

8. The police finally _____________ him last year.

9. They _____________ him with almost thirty crimes.

10. He was _____________ at a Crown Court.

11. He said he was _____________, but the jury decided he was _____________.

12. The judge _____________ him to 15 years in prison.

13. He won't _____________ the law again for a long time.

 

 

Match the legal terms on the left with their definitions on the right.

1) Deterrence	a) guidance and instruction given to offenders, their beneficial treatment aimed at restitution of positive skills and attitudes
2) case study	b) measures taken to prevent hostile action
3) legislator	c) a person serving a prison sentence
4) retribution	d) a detailed analysis of a criminal person or group
5) convict	e) a member of a body which gives or makes laws
6) rehabilitation	f) something given or demanded in repayment, especially punishment

 

NARRATIVE TENSES

What do you know about narrative tenses? Which 4 tenses are called so?

Complete the rule

Past Simple

Past Continuous

Past Perfect Simple

Past Perfect Continuous

Use to talk about

_______completed actions in the past.

 

_______completed actions that happened before another action in the past.

 

_______actions in progress at a particular time in the past

 

_______ actions or situations which continued up to the past moment we are talking about.

 

 

Complete the text with the necessary verb form (present or past, active or passive)

Silvio Berlusconi 1. _______ (start) community service at a care home for the elderly near Milan. Four hours a week he will work with elderly dementia patients. The cameras 2.______ (present) as the billionaire 3.______ (begin) his year of community service. The former prime minister’s prison sentence for tax fraud 4_________ (commute) to community service. For some there was a sense of public humiliation. “It’s something unique: a former prime minister, a three-time prime minister who ends up doing community service following the court verdict. Honestly I 5.____________ (cover) such an event, it is the first time,” one international journalist outside the care home explained. The former prime minister 6.___________(choose) community service over house arrest in order to continue campaigning for his party in the European elections. A trade unionist dressed as a clown was held back as he 7.___________(try) to approach Berlusconi. “I want to tell Berlusconi, that we, Italian workers, have a dream in our heart: Berlusconi inside San Vittore jail, Berlusconi to San Vittore,” shouted Pippo Fiorito The 77-year-old 8. _________ (spare) prison as the Italian legal system is lenient to the over-70s. The billionaire 9.__________(embroil) in a string of court cases. He 10.__________(deny) the charges against him, accusing left-wing judges of a witch-hunt.