�KOPIERINGSUNDERLAG • QUEST A Engelska A© 2008 Författarna och Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur

Big Mouth and Ugly Girl

Words connected with crime, law and order

AThe police have been warned that an individual, X, is planning to blow up his school. They act immediately. What happens is listed below, but the order of the items in the list is muddled. It is now your job to put the list right. There may be more than one way to do this.

The police search X’s locker.

X is led to a waiting police vehicle.

Police officer: ‘Anything you say will be used against you in a court of law.’

X: ‘Don’t you need a warrant?’

X is in custody awaiting his trial.

X is introduced to his attorney.

X is handcuffed.

X is taken to police headquarters.

X is sure his friends will corroborate his story.

Plainclothes detectives or a SWAT team arrive (you decide which).

X applies for bail, which he is denied.

X is questioned by two officers in an interview room.

X is formally charged with the offence.

BNow write a short report on what happened on the day of X’s arrest. You will have to add details to make the story more interesting to read. Your report must be written in the past tense:

Yesterday at lunch time, police surrounded Quiet Stream High after they had received a report that …

� KOPIERINGSUNDERLAG • QUEST A Engelska A© 2008 Författarna och Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur

CHow would you say this in English?

  1.  att bli presenterad för sin advokat

 

  2.  att ansöka om borgen

  3.  en civilklädd polisman

  4.  att bekräfta någons berättelse

 

  5.  att vänta på sin rättegång

  6.  att undersöka någons skåp

 

  7.  att bli nekad borgen

  8.  att vara häktad

  9.  att bli åtalad för ett brott

10.  en domstol

�KOPIERINGSUNDERLAG • QUEST A Engelska A© 2008 Författarna och Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur

Big Mouth and Ugly Girl

C Words connected with crime, law and order

Key  1.  to be introduced to your attorney (Am E) / lawyer (Br E)  2.  to apply for bail  3.  a plainclothes police officer / detective  4.  to corroborate somebody’s story  5.  to await one’s trial  6.  to search somebody’s locker  7.  to be denied bail  8.  to be in custody  9.  to be charged with a crime10.  a court /of law/