UNIT 2:

WHO DID IT?

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CONTENTS UNIT 2:
● VOCABULARY:
- Crime and punishment
- Phrasal verbs connected with investigating and
finding

● GRAMMAR:
- Past Simple and Past Continuous

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 PRESENTATION OF UNIT 2:

In this unit you are going to talk about crime and detective work using the past
simple and past continuous. You will read texts about crime, and you will practise
how to apologize and discuss crime stories in newspapers, as well as improve
your vocabulary by watching a crime series and finally enact part of a trial.

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ASSESSMENT OF UNIT 2:
There will be a series of tasks you will need to do throughout this unit,
including a reading comprehension questionnaire, a listening and writing test
, a trial performance and a written test. In order to pass these assignments you
will need to learn the following things:

- How to write, translate and pronounce the vocabulary in this unit.

- How to tell a story in the past and discuss what is right and what is wrong.
- How to enact part of a trial in English based on a famous crime series: Law
and Order

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TASK 0: SPEAKING… CRIMES
Answer the questions regarding crime:

1. Do you think your country is a safe place to live? Why or why not?
2. Do you consider your hometown safe? Are there any parts of the city that are considered more dangerous than others?
3. What kinds of crime are most common in your country?
4. Are you afraid of walking outside after dark?
5. Have you ever been the victim of a crime?
6. Have you ever seen a crime?
7. Are there any problems with drugs where you live? Do you think there is a link between drugs and crime?
8. Do you always lock your house? The front gate of your house? How about your car?
9. Do you think people who use (soft) illegal drugs should be put in jail? How about the sellers?
10. Do you think policeman should be allowed to carry guns?
11. Is prison an effective punishment? Why or why not?
12. Do you think that capital punishment is a good idea? Why or why not?

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TASK 1: READING COMPREHENSION

WHO IS JAMES BOND ?

BOND IS BACK AGAIN.... and the latest Bond film, Spectre, is certain to be
an enormous box-office hit (as all the others). But who is James Bond, and where
does he come from ? Author Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, told us
something about the origins of the world's most famous secret agent.......

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In one of the first Bond novels, Ian Fleming tells us that James Bond - the classic
“Englishman"? - was the son of a Scottish father and an Oriental mother. But
perhaps this was not really true.
The title of the 19th Bond film, “The World is Not Enough", was based on the
Latin motto of the Bond family, which is mentioned in one of the early novels.
However, it now appears that the motto is not that of the Scottish Bonds, but that of
a different Bond family, who came from the South West of England. So perhaps,
Bond really is English, not Scottish, after all. Who knows?
Bond went to school in England, anyway - to Eton College, the same school
as his creator Ian Fleming. This is where Princes William and Harry were
educated, and also many British Prime Ministers, including David Cameron! It is a
school where young people learn how to move in high society, like Bond does so
well.

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After leaving school, Bond did not go to university - it wasn’t necessary in the
1950’s......
Oh? You didn’t know Bond was so old? He doesn’t look it, granted, but he is!
Like a few other famous people, he seems to have found the secret of eternal
middle age (we can’t call it “eternal youth", can we?).
Bond joined the British Secret Service, where he soon got promoted to the top
of the spyrachy, the “double O" category. From then on he was 007, “licensed to
kill", and so began a career which would take him to all the corners of the earth.
In the early days, Bond’s role was quite clear. He was working for the West,
and his main enemies were men from the KGB, and other dangerous
organisations. Since the end of the Cold War, the role of MI6 has changed, and
Bond’s job profile has changed with it. Now his main enemies are the big bosses
of organised crime and international terrorism.

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Unlike the Cold War, organised crime is unlikely to come to an end - at least, not in
the near future. We can therefore be sure that James Bond, the best-known
English fictional hero of the 20th century, has many more exciting adventures
ahead of him.
Hollywood has already begun making sure of that! The original films were
based on the fifteen novels written by Ian Fleming; but after the last of these was
made into a film, it was clear that Hollywood was not going to stop! Bond films are
too popular and too profitable to abandon. So Hollywood has invented new James
Bond stories...
In many ways, Bond has changed a lot since the early days. To start with,
several different actors have played the part of Bond, most notably Sean Connery,
Roger Moore and today’s Daniel Craig; but over the years, Bond movies have
become more and more fantastic.

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 Fleming’s original character was fantastic, because he always came out alive; his
adventures were incredible, but they were based on some sort of realism. Bond’s
original car (his Aston Martin DB5) had gadgets, but they were all plausible! They
were gadgets that would let him escape if he was being chased.
More recently, Bond has had cars that can fire missiles from the headlights, and
do other remarkable things! In a sense, the modern Bond is Agent Gadget - and
the people who try to get him have some even more amazing gadgets - like the
enormous circular saw that hangs under a helicopter, cutting through everything
that gets in its way (except Bond, of course!).
In the next Bond films, there will surely be lots more amazing things; but Bond
will continue to be the same, cool, calm and collected – the classic Englishman.;
Craig is unlikely to be the last 007, and Bond will doubtless go on entertaining us
for many more years!

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VOCABULARY
WORDS
author: writer - novel: story - motto: proverb, phrase - granted: that is true -
eternal : permanent - spyrarchy: an invented word made from spy and hierarchy
(hierarchy rhymes with spyrarchy) - career : professional life - MI 6 - The British
Secret Service - - job profile: the work he has to do - ahead of : in front of -
plausible: possible, realistic - headlights: main lights - saw: a sharp instrument
for cutting - collected : sure of himself
● STUDENT ACTIVITY:
-Now complete the text with the missing words: *CLASSROOM

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TASK 2: Student activity : pair work

Interview with James Bond

Working in pairs, and using information from this article and any other information
they may have, students should imagine an interview between a reporter and
James Bond. The reporter should ask at least eight questions, including
questions starting with:
What.... Where..... Why..... How...... When..... How many...... Are you.... Do
you...... (the questions can be in any order).
● Please write your questions in your notebook

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TASK 3 VOCABULARY 1: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Watch the video carefully then go to the vocabulary worksheet in your classroom

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VOCABULARY 2: PHRASAL VERBS CONNECTED WITH
INVESTIGATING AND FINDING
Write the 6 phrasal verbs in your notebook with the meaning in English and the
translation into Spanish.

https://quizlet.com/100498290/gw-b1-unit-2-phrasal-verbs-connected-with-investigating-and-finding-flash-
cards/

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TASK 4: LISTENING & SPEAKING
warm-up

12 YEARS OLD: Are 12-year-olds criminals. With your partner(s),

decide what punishments a 12-year-old should get for these crimes.
Change partners and share what you heard
Listen and fill in the gaps
● The task is uploaded in your classroom

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TASK 5: PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS

Remember- the simple past talks about something that happened before. It happened and
it finished. Some words are regular and just have -ed added at the end like walked, helped,
and played. Others are irregular* and have many variations like ate, began, and slept.

The past progressive talks about something that was happening before, but for a period of
time. It uses was or were + verb-ing like was eating or were playing. It gives a background
for something that was happening while a different event happened.

Example: While I was eating, the telephone rang.So, during the time I was eating (let's say
from 6:30-7:00 p.m.) somebody called my house (let's say they called at 6:49p.m.) One
thing happened (simple past) during the period of time another thing was happening (past
progressive.)

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 1. USE

Simple Past

action finished in the past (single or repeated)

series of completed actions in the past
Past Continuous
action was in progress at a special time in the past
two actions were happening at the same time (the actions do not
influence each other) Both tenses are often used in one sentence:

While we were sitting at the breakfast table, the telephone rang.

We were sitting at the breakfast table when the telephone rang.

Past Progressive → we were sitting at the table

Simple Past → the telephone rang.

The action in the Simple Past interrupts the action in the Past 17
2. FORM

Simple Past
regular verbs: infinitive + -ed
irregular verbs: 2nd column of the table of the irregular verbs*

Past Progressive

(was or were) + infinitive + -ing

Affirmative sentences

Simple Past : I played football/ You played footbal

Past Progressive :He was playing football/You were playing football

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 Negative sentences
Simple Past Past Progressive

I did not play He was not playing

football. football.

You did not play You were not playing

football. football.

He did not play He was not playing

football. football.

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Questions

Simple Past Did I play football? Did you play football?

Past Progressive Was I playing football?Were you playing football

Note: Once you have studied about these past tenses do ONLINE PRACTICE and REVISION ACTIVITIES in your
classroom

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TASK 7: WRITING

You helped stop a robbery last week...

Write a blog post about what happened in your notebook

Write 100–125 words. (Use connectors: when, while.. and past simple and
continuous)

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