Prime Time 5/6, Language in Use, Arbeitsheft

27 8 Crime and suspense 1. a person in charge of filmmaking: director 2. the people watching a movie or a play: 3. a short part of a movie: 4. the person who is in charge of a film’s production: 5. a full-length film for entertainment: 6. a person watching a movie in a cinema: 7. a movie about a crime story: 8. the final part of a movie: 9. the opposite of foreground: 10. all the filmmakers and film companies together: 11. a very good film: 12. something you cannot explain: 13. what an actor or an actress plays in a movie: 14. a state of feeling excited about the unknown ending of a movie: 15. the main events of the story, a movie or a play: 16. your successful professional life: 4 Language in use: A crime story by Patricia Highsmith You are going to read a text about a crime story by Patricia Highsmith. In most lines of the text there is a word that should not be there. Write that word in the space provided after each line. Some lines are correct. Indicate these lines with a tick ( ü ). There are three examples at the beginning. In this text Particia Highsmith tells the story of woman who has ü 0 lost interest in to her husband. So she decides to kill him. to 00 But she does not want to do this openly. As she knows that her ü 000 husband has heart attack problems she starts cooking very rich Q1 meals for him – everything her husband should not eat. Q2 Gradually her husband gets more and more health problems. Q3 He is short of breath, his lonely heart starts aching. One day his Q4 wife pretends that she is not well and asks her husband to carry Q5 her out upstairs. This turns out to be too much for him. Q6 He puts her in her bed and then lately he falls on his bed and starts Q7 breathing heavily strong. As there is nothing wrong with his wife, Q8 she could call for help. Instead she stays with him, but does Q9 not help him and so he dies away. All the people in her road Q10 come and tell to her how sorry they are for her that her husband Q11 has died. And she pretends to be an honourable widow. Q12 On the one hand this story shows that Patricia Highsmith could Q13 write very interesting but also very exciting stories. On the very Q14 other hand this story is also a good working example of her Q15 rather dark sense of her humour. Altogether this text is Q16 entertaining and well worth reading. Q17 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv