Unit 4 Crime

Performance Objectives

• Describe criminal behavior

• Report a crime

• Describe changes in one’s career

• Describe criminals

• Describe how crimes are dealt with by the justice system

• Offer advice on safety

Make a speech according to one of the following pictures

and questions:

Picture I Picture II

Preparation Work

Picture III Picture IV

A. Suppose you witnessed the whole process of this crime in the spot, and you are expected to give a detailed description of this criminal by the police. The following questions are given just as references.

1.        What sort of age was he?

2.        How tall was he?

3.        Was he a strong guy?

4.        What about his hair?

5.        Anything about his facial appearance that makes him easy to

recognize?

6.        Anything special about his wearing?

 

B. Here use your imagination, and suppose you’re a police, can you give a crime report after the investigation? You can also think the follow questions as references.

1.        What’s the crime?

2.        When and where did it happen?

3.        Who is the victim?

4.        What should the readers do if they have information as to the

criminal’s identity?

5.        What should the readers do if these things happen to him?

6.        What will the police do to stop these things from happening?

 

Warm Up

Before we come to the main content of this unit, you’re expected

to do some preparation work, such as knowing something about

this aspect and getting the vocabulary relate to crime.

A. Can you name these criminal activities in lexical items?

1. I was walking in the street when a guy snatched my bag.

2. He was put in prison because he used the company ‘s

money to buy a car of his own.

rob / robbery / robber

embezzle / embezzlement

/ embezzler

3. He was caught by the police when transporting cigarettes from

Hong Kong to the mainland of China.

4. They took away my little boy and demanded $100,000 for

his safe return.

smuggle / smuggling /

smuggler

kidnap / kidnapping /

kidnapper

5. My bike was taken away by someone last night.

steal / theft / thief

6. A gang took control of the fight and forced the pilot to change

his destination.

7. My house was broken into when I was away on holiday.

8. The other day when I was shopping in a supermarket, I saw a

little boy take several packs of chewing gum and leave without

paying for them.

hijack / hijacking hijacker

burgle / burglary

burglar

shoplift / shoplifting

shoplifter

9. After I got off from the crowded bus, I found the wallet in my

back pocket had gone.

10. He made a living by buying and selling drugs.

11. He killed his best friend intentionally after he learned that his

girlfriend was going to marry him.

pickpocket /pickpocketing

pickpocket

traffic / trafficking

trafficker

murder / murder

murderer

12. A man followed me to a back street and attacked me.

13. He got caught when setting fire to a building.

14. They blew up a department store and threatened to do the

same to another if their demands were not met by the government.

assault / assault

assailant

set fire to / arson

arsonist

terrorise / terrorism

terrorist

15. Some tourists like carving their names on cultural relics.

16. He violently forced the girl to have sex with him.

17. He got this job by giving money to the person in charge.

vandalise / vandalism

vandal

rape / rape / rape

bribe / bribery

briber

Activity 1 A Full Description

Suppose you have been a witness to a certain crime, what’s your

reaction to it?

• Come out and stop it.

• Call the police.

• Help the victim.

• Walk away pretending nothing has happened.

The items contained in a Crime Report Form:

( which the police can use to write down the information a

witness can provide)

• Informant’s name

• Informant ‘s address

• Reported crime / a description of the crime

• Time of the crime

• Place of the crime

• Description of the criminal ( sex, age, height, build, hair, clothes)

• Other information

Key Words:

• build: the general shape or structure of the human body

• greasy hair: the hair looks thick and oily

The mood of the informants’ speaking is generally divided into

two types:

Sure• I’m sure…

• …must be…

• …that’s for sure.

• If I’m not mistaken…

• One thing’s certain…

• …definitely…

Not Sure• I’d say…

• Let me think for a while…may…

• …seemed…

• I can’t remember exactly

• I seem to remember

Practice:

Can you give me a detailed description according to the

picture on Page 170 ?

Activity 2 Crime Reports

I. A formal crime report usually covers the following questions:

1. What is the crime?

2. When did it happen?

3. Where did it happen?

4. What exactly happened?

5. What did the criminal look like?

6. What should the readers do if they have information as to the

criminal’s identity?

Practice:

Through reading Text 2.1, can you find the specific information

about the questions above in it?

II. Please pay attention to the following words:

indecent, accost, activate, approach,

pedestrian, mousy, oval

When you’re reading, before looking them up in a dictionary,

maybe you can get the probable meaning of them. Can you

paraphrase them in your own words?

II. Some knowledge about grammatical structures in this part:

1. 定语从句的使用 e.g. Anyone who can recognise this man please contact

Crime stoppers on the above number.

（ 注意关系连词的选择和使用以及定语从句的位置 ）2. 分词短语充当定语修饰名词或代词以及分词短语充当状语 e.g. A woman walking alone along the A731 was approache

d

by a lone male pedestrian.

The man was seen leaving a house, carrying a television.

1 ）分词短语充当定语修饰名词时，应放在名词之后。2 ）分词短语充当状语时， 其逻辑主语应和句子主语一致。

Activity 3 A Career in the Police

chief constable

deputy chief constable

assistant chief constable

chief superintendent

sub-divisional commander

chief inspector

cadet

High

Low

1. The ranks in the British police force:

2. The description of changes in rank:

1) the expressions which suggests that a person takes a new job

title

become / join…as… / be appointed / take on the position of

2) the expressions which suggests that a person rises to a higher

position

be promoted to / There is a rise to…

3) the expressions which suggests that a person moves to a

different place within the same organisation

be transferred to

4) the expressions which suggests that a person is given some

work to do

be assigned the task of

3. Pay attention to the following words:

discriminate discrimination; appoint appointment

promote promotion; resign resignation

assign assignment

The noun suffixes: -ment , -ation , -tion

4. Question techniques of the interviewer:

( the following expressions can help the interviewer to get the

information he / she wants and at same time avoid sounding

intrusive.)

• use a tag question

• Tell me…

• …by any chance

• …ever…

• Could you tell us a bit…?

• Is that correct / right?

Activity 4 JusticeI.You must be familiar with the following legal terms :• be charged with / be accused of ( a crime )

被指控（犯有某种罪行）• appeal / appeal against

申诉 / 上诉• sentence

判决 / 宣判• convict / conviction

定罪• be held in police custody

监禁• quash the conviction 撤销定罪 / 宣判无罪

II. You’re also expected to know the legal procedure for a

certain crime case in a flowchart.

commit a crime

be held in police custody

be charged

be brought into trial

be found guilty be found innocent

be sentenced be released

serve sentence appeal against the conviction

serve sentence quash the conviction

Some noticeable features of news reports:

1. to put the outcome first

2. to keep paragraph short

Activity 5 Crime Prevention

I. Make an intensive reading of the tips about the safety measures

against the crimes.

1. Pay attention to some new words and expressions, can you

paraphrase them in your own language:

personal attack alarm

spyhole

clasp

prowler