Mastering English Grammar and Crime Vocabulary

Level 1: Vocabulary and Grammar Practice

Level 1 Vocabulary

Exercise 1: Phrasal Verbs (Music)

• 1. Turn … up
• 2. Brought … up
• 3. Take … out
• 4. Back … up
• 5. Go on
• 6. Give … away
• 7. Put … down
• 8. Back up

Exercise 2: Contextual Phrases

• 1. Trust him
• 2. Enough space for everyone
• 3. We gave up the search
• 4. Do not lean on it
• 5. Was caught anyway
• 6. Of value

Exercise 3: Legal and Action Terms

• 1. Guilty
• 2. Raised
• 3. Trial
• 4. Forced
• 5. Turn … in
• 6. Released
• 7. Went on

Level 1 Grammar

Exercise 4: Reported Speech Transformations

• 1. Warned me not to approach the suspect.
• 2. Ordered me to lock the door then.
• 3. Admitted putting the jeans in his/her bag.
• 4. Complained that there had been too many burglaries in their neighbourhood.
• 5. Wondered where I had been the night before.
• 6. Asked Tom not to say anything to Mum.

Exercise 5: Verb Forms

• 1. Had forced
• 2. To admit
• 3. Would be wearing
• 4. Had remembered

Exercise 6: Attorney's Advice

• 1. Not to say anything
• 2. To say where he put the body
• 3. If it was safe to go back to her house
• 4. Not to throw trash on the ground
• 5. She had lied
• 6. Going back home

Level 2: Advanced Vocabulary and Grammar

Level 2 Vocabulary

Exercise 1: Sentence Completion

• 1. Please turn up the volume.
• 2. Hold your backpack strong.
• 3. They don't have an idea where they went.
• 4. It hurts my shoulder.
• 5. That’s why it was easy to steal.
• 6. He lost his keys.

Exercise 2: Phrasal Verbs in Context

• 1. May not turn up
• 2. Gave the suspect away
• 3. Bring up the burglary
• 4. Back me up
• 5. Must go on
• 6. Giving everything away

Exercise 3: Synonyms and Definitions

• 1. Grab/catch
• 2. Appointment
• 3. Scar
• 4. Released/liberated
• 5. Fine
• 6. Reassure/calm
• 7. Guilty

Level 2 Grammar

Exercise 4: Reported Speech Practice

• 1. Complained that she couldn’t do that then unless everyone helped her.
• 2. Asked how much money they had got away with.
• 3. Warned us not to walk there alone at night.
• 4. Said that he had been at home all evening with his wife.
• 5. Refused to give out any details.
• 6. Reminded me not to forget about my appointment the following morning.

Exercise 5: Sentence Transformations

• 1. To call us soon
• 2. Where I had been the night before
• 3. That there had been a lot of traffic
• 4. That the criminals would stay twenty years in prison
• 5. That he hadn’t been there at the time
• 6. That he had robbed a bank

Exercise 6: Electronic Context Verb Tenses

• 1. Had waved
• 2. Hadn’t suspected
• 3. Were dealing
• 4. Would have
• 5. Putting
• 6. Had been reported
• 7. To become

Reading Comprehension and Literary Analysis

Exercise 1: True or False Evidence

• 1. False (Line 6): "One group...at all"
• 2. False (Lines 10-11): "The researchers... in the test"

Exercise 2: Sentence Completion

• 1. To commit a crime
• 2. Who are consistent and predictable
• 3. That people are complex beings that often defy expectations

Exercise 4: Literary Fiction Analysis

Readers of literary fiction develop an awareness that people are complex beings that often defy expectations; furthermore, readers become emotionally involved with the characters.

Exercise 5: Vocabulary from Text

• 1. Take into account
• 2. Infer
• 3. Reinforces
• 4. Defy
• 5. Fight