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OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY STAGE 4 30 GREAT CRIMES
Great Crimes STAGE 4
Before Reading
BEFORE READING ACTIVITIES (PAGE 76)
For these activities, encourage students to exchange
ideas, and to speculate and to guess. Do not tell
them the answers that are factual; they will find out
the answers as they read.
ACTIVITY 1 BEFORE READING
Encourage students to speculate and to make
guesses. They will find out as they read that the
answers are:
in book: farm, note, drug, glove, poison, knife
not in book: heart, grandfather, shoe, cow, insect,
bread
ACTIVITY 2 BEFORE READING
assassination Killing a political leader
kidnapping Taking someone and keeping them as
a prisoner in order to get money
murder Deliberately taking someones life
robbery Using violence to steal money or other
things
terrorism Hurting, killing or frightening people
to try to make the government do what
you want
ACTIVITY 3 BEFORE READING
Open answers.
While Reading
CHAPTER 1 WHILE READING
1+e When Cora sang in theatres, she called herself
Belle Elmore.
2+c Crippen could not work as a doctor in England
because he had trained in another country.
3+g Crippen fell in love with Ethel Le Neve, who
was his secretary.
4+a After killing Cora, Crippen told everyone that
she had gone back to America.
5+f The police found part of a womans body under
Crippens house in London.
6+d Ethel and Crippen travelled on the Montrose
using the name Robinson.
7+h Crippen was arrested by Inspector Dew before
he reached Canada.
8+b On the day that Crippen died, Ethel sailed from
London for New York.
CHAPTER 2 WHILE READING
1 Paris.
2 Because paintings were often taken away and
photographed.
A thumbprint.
4 500,000 lire (100,000 dollars).
5 He bought and sold paintings.
6 He was a house painter.
7 A list of names and addresses of people who bought
and sold paintings in different countries.
CHAPTER 3 WHILE READING
1 Charles Lindbergh was a rich, famous pilot.
2 Charles Lindbergh Junior was often called Little It.
3 Betty Gow was Charles Juniors nurse.
4 Violet Sharpe, who worked for the Lindberghs, killed
herself a few months after the kidnapping.
5 The kidnapper arranged to meet Dr Condon in a
cemetery.
6 Cemetery John collected 50,000 dollars for false
information about the missing child.
7 Bruno Hauptmann was found guilty of killing
Charles Junior.
CHAPTER 4 WHILE READING
Correct order: 7, 2, 6, 8, 3, 5, 1, 4
7 The robbers bought an old farmhouse.
2 The night mail train left Glasgow for London.
6 The train driver saw a red signal and stopped the
train.
8 Two robbers attacked the driver.
3 Some robbers took bags of money out of the train.
5 The robbers went to the farmhouse to count the
money.
1 The police found some fingerprints at the
farmhouse.
4 Most of the robbers were caught and put in prison.
CHAPTER 5 WHILE READING
1 T
2 F The president was hit by several bullets.
3 F Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald.
4 T
5 F After Kennedys death, Lyndon B. Johnson became
president.
6 T
CHAPTER 6 WHILE READING
Patty Hearst was the daughter of a newspaper owner.
She was kidnapped by terrorists. Two months later,
she became a member of the gang and helped them to
rob a bank. A year later she was caught and sent for
trial. The jury found her guilty and she was sent to
prison, but a few years later she was free.
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OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY STAGE 4 31 GREAT CRIMES
CHAPTER 7 WHILE READING
1 The Chamberlain children were sleeping in a tent.
2 Lindy Chamberlain said that a dingo had taken her
baby.
3 At the end of the second inquest, Lindy
Chamberlain was charged with murder.
4 Lindy Chamberlain had a daughter while she was in
prison.
5 When the police found a dead climber, they also
found Azarias coat.
6 Lindy wrote a book, Through My Eyes, about her
experience.
CHAPTER 8 WHILE READING
1 Because he could still father successful racehorses.
2 Because they were wearing balaclavas.
3 They locked them in a downstairs room.
4 They wanted two million pounds.
5 Because they were travelling to one of Irelands
biggest horse sales.
6 The IRA probably kidnapped him because they
needed money.
CHAPTER 9 WHILE READING
1 b; 2 c; 3 b; 4 a; 5 c.
CHAPTER 10 WHILE READING
1 Why. . . ? Because he made millions of pounds for
the bank.
2 What. . .? She sold twenty contracts instead of
buying them.
3 Where. . .? In Error Account 88888.
4 What . . .? A note saying Im sorry.
5 Why. . .? Because he did not want to go to prison in
South East Asia.
6 How many. . .? 1200 people lost their jobs.
CHAPTER 11 WHILE READING
Ponzi and de Hory both hoped to make money in
America. Ponzi promised to invest peoples money, and
give them the profit, but he went to prison for fraud.
De Hory discovered that people would pay thousands
for his fakes, but not for his own paintings. People still
talk about Ponzi schemes today, and de Horys own
paintings are now worth a lot of money.
After Reading
ACTIVITY 1 AFTER READING
1 Sofia Stone, who has just been kidnapped with her
friend Mr Darby in Louisiana. They will be kept all
night and let go the next day in Arkansas.
2 The wife of James Fitzgerald, who looked after
Shergar. She and her children have been locked in a
room. The men are going to kidnap Shergar and ask
for money.
3 Vincenzo Perugia. He has stolen the Mona Lisa and
is locked inside the Louvre Museum. The museum
worker is going to let him out, thinking he is a
cleaner.
4 Nick Leeson. One of his staff has made a mistake
which could cost Barings 20,000. Leeson is going
to use the error account to hide this loss, and hides
further losses in the account until they are so large
they cannot be repaid.
5 Ethel Le Neve. She has disguised herself as a boy
and is travelling to Canada with Dr Crippen to start
a new life. Crippen is going to be arrested before the
ship reaches Canada, and returned to England for
trial.
6 Jack Mills, a train driver. Some robbers have covered
the green signal and used their own red light to
stop the train. Two robbers are going to get into the
engine and make Mills drive to a bridge, where they
will unload bags of banknotes.
ACTIVITY 2 AFTER READING
John F. Kennedy was shot as his car drove past the
Texas Book Depository. Not long after the shooting, a
policeman, J. D. Tippit, stopped a man on the street.
The man shot the policeman and ran away. Later, Lee
Harvey Oswald was arrested for murdering Tippit.
Then a gun belonging to Oswald was found in the
Texas Book Depository, and Oswald was arrested
again this time for killing the president.
The well-known businessman Charles Ponzi was
arrested in Boston today. Police went to the office of
Ponzis business, the Securities Exchange Company,
which has been taking thousands of dollars a day from
excited investors, and took him away for questioning.
After the arrest a number of investors said that they
refused to believe that Ponzi had done anything wrong.
He paid me exactly what he promised, said one, so I
invested it all again. He will take care of us, Im sure.
ACTIVITY 3 AFTER READING
Headlines refer to:
Lindy Chamberlain
Bonnie and Clyde
Patty Hearst
Lindbergh kidnapping
Mona Lisa
ACTIVITY 4 AFTER READING
Arguments relate to Nick Leeson and Patty Hearst.
Open answers.
ACTIVITY 5 AFTER READING
Open answers. Encourage students to share their
views and opinions.
ACTIVITY 6 AFTER READING
Open answers.