STUDENT MATERIAL

Crime and Punishment

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# SECTION A – LET’S TALK

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# SECTION B – GRAMMAR

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# SECTION C – VOCABULARY

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# SECTION D – EXCERCISES

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# SECTION E – READING
READING
Why almost all crimes are so badly concealed and so easily detected, and why almost
all criminals leave such obvious traces? He had come gradually to many different and
curious conclusions, and in his opinion the chief reason lay not so much in the material
impossibility of concealing the crime, as in the criminal himself. Almost every criminal is
subject to a failure of will and reasoning power by a childish and phenomenal
heedlessness, at the very instant when prudence and caution are most essential. It was
his conviction that this eclipse of reason and failure of will power attacked a man like a
disease, developed gradually and reached its highest point just before the perpetration
of the crime, continued with equal violence at the moment of the crime and for longer or
shorter time after, according to the individual case, and then passed off like any other
disease. The question whether the disease gives rise to the crime, or whether the crime
from its own peculiar nature is always accompanied by something of the nature of
disease, he did not yet feel able to decide.

EXERCISE 2 Answer the questions

1. How would you answer to the question the narrator asks himself? “Why almost
all crimes are so badly concealed and so easily detected?”
2. According to the text, how would you describe the “nature” of a criminal?
3. What is like a “disease”? Why?
4. From your view, how able to decide might be a criminal? Do you agree with the
narrator?

EXERCISE 3 Find the word defined

1. A mark, object, or other indication of the existence or passing of something:
2. Most important:
3. Showing a reckless lack of care or attention:
4. Having lost significance or power:

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# SECTION F – SOLUTIONS

GRAMMAR

EXERCISE 1 Give responses beginning “No, what…”, correcting

what was said in in the question. Use the notes in
brackets to help

1. “Did you say that Bernard was going to live in Austria?”(holiday/Austria)

“No, what I said was that he was going on holiday to Austria.”

2. “Do you hope to sell your Picasso paintings?” (be put into/public art gallery)

“No, what I hope is that they will be put into a public art gallery.”

3. “Did it annoy you that Clare came so late?” (not apologise)

“No, what annoyed me was that she didn´t apologise.”

4. “Did you mean to give Erica your bike?” (could borrow it/ until needed again)

“No, what I meant was that she could borrow it until I needed it again.”

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READING

EXERCISE 2 Answer the questions

(Answers depend on students)

1. How would you answer to the question the narrator asks himself? “Why almost
all crimes are so badly concealed and so easily detected?”
2. According to the text, how would you describe the “nature” of a criminal?
3. What is like a “disease”? Why?
4. From your view, how able to decide might be a criminal? Do you agree with the
narrator?

EXERCISE 3 Find the word defined

1. A mark, object, or other indication of the existence or passing of something:
TRACE
2. Most important: CHIEF
3. Showing a reckless lack of care or attention: HEEDLESSNESS
4. Having lost significance or power: ECLIPSE

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