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Unit 4 — Vocabulary

Accidents and mistakes · Crime in the news · Complaints

4A
Vocabulary
Accidents and mistakes
4A · Ex 1 Look at the picture. Find the accidents and mistakes.
Some things have already gone wrong — others are about to. Complete the sentences describing what you can see.
A busy café scene with several accidents and mistakes happening
Word bank: crashed intofitforgotten turned upmixed upspill chargedfloodslipped over measuredcatch
1
This car has the pole.
2
The suitcase doesn't in the car.
3
Someone has his/her scarf.
4
The woman's friend hasn't .
5
The waiter has the order.
6
This man has knocked his coffee over. It's going to on the floor.
7
The café has this customer extra.
8
The tap has been left on. It's starting to the café!
9
This person has in the water and fallen down.
10
The builder has wrong. It's 1.2m, not 2.1m!
11
The sun shade outside is going to fire.
4A · Ex 2 Give some advice.
In pairs, think of some advice for the people in the picture, using modals of obligation (should / shouldn't / have to). For example: "When you leave somewhere, you should always check you've taken all your things with you."

* Discussion exercise — no automatic check.

4B
Vocabulary
Crime in the news
4B · Ex 1 Choose the correct alternatives to complete the article.
Click the word that fits best in each gap.

Cardboard cops against crime

We all know that speed can cause terrible accidents where people get . In Edinburgh, there's a new police officer in town, holding a speed camera, to try and get drivers to drive more slowly. But, this police officer is to a pole by a chain – he's made of cardboard!

Scotland isn't the only place where these cut-out police officers are used. A few years ago, British police in England and Wales bought 750 cardboard cut-outs which were worth £50,000.

But are these cut-outs actually helpful in stopping ? Some authorities claim that they make people feel safer, and one supermarket reported that there were 75 percent fewer . Others argue that the cut-out police officers are useless in preventing , and that money would be better spent on real emergency services jobs.

Last year, the police cut-outs became . A broke in to a shopping centre and stole 20 cardboard cut-outs. It seems they got away with it because the thieves were never . The only witnesses were the cut-out police themselves.

4B · Ex 2 Match the sentence halves.
Click a beginning on the left, then click its ending on the right, to pair them. Click a paired item again to undo it.
4B · Ex 3 Discuss the questions.
Work in groups.
1
Do you think cardboard police officers would be effective where you live?
2
What other ways can you think of to help reduce crime?

* Discussion exercise — no automatic check.

4C
Vocabulary
Complaints
4C Match the FAQ questions with their answers.
These are questions and answers from the FAQ sections of different websites. Click a question on the left, then click its answer on the right, to pair them.

* Bonus discussion: what type of website might each question appear on (a shop, a hairdresser, a bank...)?