Answer — Exercise 1
8 - Caught in the act·Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book
Question
Complete sentences 1-9 with the pairs of verbs. You may need to reverse the order of the words.
Answer
- gone, got hold of (If you go $1,000 overdrawn, then your bank account has minus $1,000. Check go overdrawn by asking: What might happen if you go overdrawn? Your bank may charge interest, stop your account.).
- caught, doing (highlight patterns: I was doing 65 = I was driving at 65 kilometres or miles per hour; pay a $50 or £200 fine. Ask: What might you get a fine for? Speeding, parking in the wrong place, dropping litter.)
- found, beaten (Ask: What is the opposite of found dead? Found alive. Explain that beaten to death means killed by being hit with fist, a club, etc. Ask: How else can you be killed? You can be stabbed to death, shot dead, poisoned, etc.)
- came back, vanished (Ask: What’s another word for vanished? Disappeared.)
- smashed, set (Ask: How might you smash something? Throw a rock at it, crash into it. Ask: What follows ‘set fire’? to, e.g. set fire to the house.)
- broken into, stolen (Ask: How can a burglar break in? They can smash a window, etc.)
- came up to, grabbed (Act out these actions.)
- raided, seized (Ask: if the police raid a building, how many are there? A lot. Is it sudden and violent? Yes. Do they arrest people? Yes, often.)
- went off, killed (Ask: What else can go off? An alarm, a bomb.)