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106 Unit 07 | You be the judge Work in small groups: 1 Discuss which of the crimes you consider major or severe, and which minor or petty offences. 2 Find categories such as ‘crimes against people’ or ‘should be punished with a prison sentence’ to put the offences into different groups. 3 Agree on the three worst crimes. Remember Tony Giles, the blind traveller from Unit 04, who mentions that his camera was stolen? What do you think happened to it? Was it: sold? stolen again? given away as a gift? left somewhere? used by the thief? transplanted into outer space to watch over Tony? SPEAKING 9 WRITING 10 Expand your vocabulary: Types of crime Look at the different types of crime in the box and make sure you know what they mean. LANGUAGE 8 a M p. 40 Use the verbs in the word field below to write definitions of each crime. b to break into to frighten to pretend to shoplift to hurt to kill to export to deceive to damage to force sb. to do sth. to destroy to import to trade in to steal to set sth. on fire Now work in pairs and add any other crimes you know to the list above. c Decide on one option and write the camera’s story. You could start like this: One minute I was in Tony’s hand and he was asking a man to take a picture with me, the next minute this thief ran out of the church with me. Oh dear, I thought, what will happen to me … Browsing young people’s street art blogs, you have come across the blog post on the right. You have decided to comment on the blog post. In your blog comment you should: Artsy Tiger Spray painting – it’s not a crime! … Well, my friend was painting a dream world on this ugly wall in this poor area. He only wanted to give the people something beautiful, something to enjoy, simply a piece of art. Anyway, he was caught and got arrested for it! Do you think that’s fair? reply 11 discuss if you consider spray painting to be art explain how you feel about punishing spray painters give an example of a crime that you consider worse than spray painting Write around 250 words. See Writing coach, Blog comment , p. 182. a arson b (cyber-)bullying c burglary d drug trafficking g murder h plagiarism i theft j vandalism e fraud f hacking Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv