108 Unit 07 | You be the judge 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? sent into outer space to watch over Tony? stolen again? left somewhere? given away as a gift? used by the thief? 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 asked a man to take a picture with me, the next this thief dashed out of the church, taking me with him. Oh no, I thought, what’s going to happen to me now? 11 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 a arson b (cyber-)bullying c burglary d drug trafficking g murder h plagiarism i trespassing j vandalism e fraud f hacking Use the verbs in the word field below to write definitions of each crime. b Now work in pairs and add any other crimes you know to the list above. Work in small groups: 1 Discuss which of the offences you consider major or serious and which you believe are minor or petty offences. 2 Organise the offences into categories, such as ‘crimes against people’ or ‘should be punished with a prison sentence’. In which category would spray painting fall? 3 Try to agree on the three most serious crimes. Support your opinion with examples, evidence and reasons. 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: argue whether or not graffiti is a form of vandalism explain how you feel about punishing people for spraying graffiti on buildings describe other ways to discourage people from spraying graffiti Write around 250 words. See Writing coach, Blog comment, p. 182. c SPEAKING 9 WRITING 10 StealthArt_3000 Graffiti: not a crime! I’m really upset! My friend has just been arrested for vandalism, but she hasn’t done anything wrong. She’s a graffiti artist, and her work is beautiful. It brings colour and a touch of art to areas of the city that are dull and grey. How can that be a crime? to break into to frighten to pretend to enter 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 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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