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4 Refer students to the Learning tip. Students work in pairs to 
take turns to read out individual paragraphs and check each 
other’s awareness of punctuation as an aid to better reading.
5 Ask students to work in pairs to complete this exercise. Check 
the answers as a class.
6 Discuss these questions as a class.
Focus on … the passive
1 Get students to complete the sentences. After checking 
the answers, ask students why the passive has been used 
so much in this letter (the passive is often used in offi cial 
documents; the focus is on the victim of the crime; the agent 
of the verb is often unknown).
2 Get students to transform the sentences into the active form. 
Elicit or explain that you would be more likely to use the 
active form if you were Justyna and you were telling someone 
what had happened.
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1 Ask students to look at the www.crimereduction.gov.uk 
website and fi nd out what Justyna is entitled to, according 
to the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime.
2 Tell students to imagine that the police arrest someone on 
suspicion of the burglary at Justyna’s fl at. Get them to work 
in groups and decide what would happen. Encourage 
them to fi nd out and use words associated with crime, e.g. 
charged with burglary, went to court, was tried, pleaded 
not guilty, found guilty, was fi ned/sentenced
.
B
Beat the burglar
Look at the section heading with the class and ask students to 
predict what this section of the unit is about.
1 Get students to answer the questions. Check the answers as a 
whole class and write them on the board.
2–3 Get students to skim the article to do Exercise 2. Before 
students check their answers by reading again, you could ask 
them to decide what the other sections are most likely to be 
about.
4 Get students to do the exercise. After checking the answers, 
ask students if they know another meaning of the word 
property
(a quality in a substance or material, especially one 
which means that it can be used in a particular way: Herbs 
have medicinal properties
).
5–7 Get students to do these exercises individually. Check the 
answers as a class and get students to compare their answers 
to Exercises 6 and 7.
Extra practice
Encourage students to visit these websites. They could fi nd out 
about mobile phone thefts: how common they are, where they 
are most likely to happen, how to avoid them.