Crime and Punishment

Exercise 1

Click here to do a listening activity about a funny robbery. 

A video activity: 
Before watching the video have a look at some vocabulary.

VOCABULARY 

1 RED HERRING - a clue or lie to mislead someone from the truth (comes from training hounds to scent 
with a herring which is a red fish)
2 AGAINST HIS WILL - against a person ability to decide for him / herself 
3 INTRIGUE - (n) a plan or plot of something harmful or illegal
4 FRAMED - (v) produce false information against an innocent person, a plan to unfairly blame
5 BREAKNECK SPEED - a person moving so fast that he may have an accident and break his neck
6 NORTH BY NORTHWEST - a compass reading [i.e. the needle points to the middle between N (North) and W (West)]
7 SINISTER - (adj) very evil, harmful
8 APPARENTLY - easily understood, obviously
9 PERFORMANCE - (n) (from the Arts) acting a scene, an artist displaying his art
10 PLAY DEAD - (from the Arts) acting as if dead, pretending to be dead
11 ROLE - (n) (from the Arts) a character in a scene, movie etc. (e.g. Rocky, Dracula etc.)
12 SUSPENSE - an excited state or feeling of uncertainty about what may happen (as in a movie)



1. Watch the video and fill in the gaps. Check your answers in "comments".

"I'm an advertising man, not a RED HERRING. I've got a _______________ (1), a secretary, a _______________ (2), two ex-wives, and several bartenders dependent upon me. And I don't intend to _______________ (3) them all by getting myself slightly _______________ (4)." ... 
Cary Grant becomes a _______________ _______________ (5) AGAINST HIS WILL propelled at gunpoint unto the highest level of international INTRIGUE and FRAMED for _______________ (6). Cary Grant, running for his _______________ (7), searching for a man who doesn't exist, and a _______________ (8) nobody knows and finding a _______________ (9) who has all the answers. ... "Hello there." "Tell me, why are you so _______________ (10) to me?" "Shall I climb up and tell you why?" ... At BREAKNECK SPEED they race together toward the excitement that lies dead ahead NORTH BY NORTHWEST. ... "How do I know you aren't a _______________ (11)?" "You don't." ... Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason as the man of SINISTER surprises. ... "APPARENTLY, the only PERFORMANCE that will satisfy you is when I PLAY DEAD." "Your very next ROLE and you'll be quite convincing I assure you." ... The perfect setup for SUSPENSE with the perfect _______________ (12) and the perfect _______________ (13) as Alfred Hitchcock takes you North by Northwest. ...

2. Do this vocabulary activity. Check your answers in "comments".

Fill in the blanks with the most correct word or words.

against his will___breakneck speed___Apparently ___performance___suspense.

1 I won't know my final grades until next week. The __________ is diving me crazy!
2 You have a new dress! It's pretty! __________ you came into some money.
3 Jason's father is angry with him because Jason married __________.
4 That wild taxi driver drove at __________ all the way to the airport!
5 Daniel played "Romeo" in the school play. He gave a fine __________.