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1 Label the pictures that represent
different crimes. Which offences
are committed against people and 1 2 3
which involve property?

arson graffiti kidnapping
mugging murder vandalism

2 Read the crime story quickly. 4 5 6
Who could the killer be?

Whodunnit?

Adam Smith sat on the edge of the don’t need to work this weekend. I’m Barry Badoff! Adam ran to the desk and
narrow bed and looked through the having a party for some important clients checked for signs of life, but there was no
bars of his cell. 1 Why did no one and I would like you to be there,’ he said. pulse. He was dead. A bloody knife was
believe him? on the floor. 5 At that very moment
The party was at Barry’s mansion. Rolls a woman entered the room, saw one dead
Adam had grown up in a rough Royce cars and Ferraris were parked man, another holding a knife, and began
neighbourhood with gangs, where crime in the street. Adam was led inside by a screaming, ‘Murderer! Killer! Help!’
was a way of life. Despite this, he had never butler. There he saw men in expensive Adam looked around wildly. He wanted
broken the law, and had seen education as Italian suits and women covered in to explain that she’d got it all wrong, but
his way out of the inner-city slums. diamonds chatting together as they the words wouldn’t come. Shock and
sipped champagne. Adam felt very terror had frozen him.
So how had he ended up in so much uncomfortable surrounded by so much
trouble? It had all started when he wealth. 3 Or breaking into a house Later that evening at the police station,
began his new job at Mangold-Zaks, like this one. Adam considered his situation. Of course
the investment bank. He was just out of the police had arrested him. What else
university with a degree in economics As he had nothing to say to the other could they have done? 6 This young
when the bank offered him a job. 2 guests, he went looking for Barry. He man from the wrong side of town, who
Adam’s life was all work and no play. saw a wide-open door and stepped had grown up around gangs ... yes, things
inside. 4 And seated behind it … looked bad for Adam, very bad. How was
One Friday afternoon his boss, Barry no, it couldn’t be … a man … a man he going to prove his innocence? And who
Badoff, called him into his office. ‘You with a bloodstained shirt … his boss, was the real killer?
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