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Created on May 5, 2024

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sequence 7

DETECTIVE stories

can you solve a case?

Final task!

Pair work: Write your story.

1) Present the crime: what happened? Where? Who? 2) Write a police interrogation. You can have as many suspects and police officers / detectives as you want. Minimum length: 15 lines

Final task!

Anticipation

Let's watch again! Complete the worksheet.

Your mission

At the end of the sequence, you will have to solve a case. You will also have to prepare a police interview.

Your skills:

simple past tense
past continuous (prétérit en be +ing)
passive voice
crime vocabulary
questions

Vocabulary

5 minutes

Group challenge: in groups of 4, try to match the pictures with the correct words.

Vocabulary

Noughts & crosses

Write the police report

Present the circumstances
Use the passive voice
List your theories

Help

Victim: Brian O'Neill, 30, journalist Shot in the head Crime: Murder, February 28th, ~11pm Crime scene: a gun. No one broke into the apartment. Door left open. Papers & articles scattered everywhere. Footprints from the body to the door. Fingerprints? Megan: Victim's wife. Disappeared.

Help

Victim: Brian O'Neill, 30, journalist Shot in the head Crime: Murder, February 28th, ~11pm Crime scene: a gun. No one broke into the apartment. Door left open. Papers & articles scattered everywhere. Footprints from the body to the door. Fingerprints? Megan: Victim's wife. Disappeared.

Listening comprehension

Listen to the conversation and take notes. Who speaks? What are they talking about? Be prepared to recap.

Listening comprehension

The police are investigating to find out who killed Mr Pot. “Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Pot was killed at 8 o’clock on Friday evening and we have reasons to believe that one of you is guilty. So, I want to know exactly where you were and what you were doing at 8 pm on Friday. Mrs Carter, what were you doing?”“At 8, I was getting dinner ready. My husband usually comes back at 9 on Fridays, you see. He’s a bus driver.”“Mh. Mr Burton, what about you?”“I was listening to Beethoven’s fifth symphony on Radio 3. You know, poh poh poh pooom pom pom.”“Yes, sir. What about you, Miss Lee? What were you doing at 8 on Friday?”“I was at the cinema and I was watching a western called… Billie Jean.”“And what were you doing Mrs Dean?”“My husband and I were playing bridge as usual with our neighbours, the Simpsons. When I heard the shots, I called the police at once.”“Well, I know who the murderer is.”

Group challenge:Write as many sentences as possible to say what the suspects were doing at 7pm.

5 minutes

Practise!

Group allenge:Write as many sentnces as possible to say what the uspects were doing at 7pm.

Let's check your lesson!

Translate into English. 1) J'étais en train de prendre une douche quand un criminel a tué mon voisin. 2) Ma soeur a téléphoné pendant que je dormais. 3) Quelqu'un a volé ta voiture pendant que tu regardais la télévision.

Reading time! In pairs, read the following text and answer the questions. Will you solve the case?

20 minutes

Recap

Copy and translate the following sentences into English.1) Où étiez-vous mardi soir ? 2) Que faisiez-vous au moment du crime ? 3) A quelle heure est-il rentré hier ? 4) As-tu entendu du bruit entre 21h et 22h ? 5) Etiez-vous avec quelqu'un ?

Recap

Questions fermées (yes/no questions) : Auxiliaire conjugué + Sujet + Verbe + complément ?Do you have a gun?Was he watching TV at the time of the murder? Questions ouvertes : Mot interrogatif + Auxiliaire conjugué + Sujet + Verbe + complément ?When did she die? Why was the victim killed?