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5 A Mysterious Case

D. Listen again and answer the following questions.

1. What happened in the handbag store?
2. What time did the robbery take place?
3. Where was Mrs Miller when the robbers robbed the store?
4. Why didn’t Mrs Miller tell the truth at first?

E. Read the sentences and mark them as true (T), false (F), or not mentioned (NM).
1. The handbag store was a big store.
2. Mrs Miller saw one of the robbers.
3. The police arrived at the store at 5 pm.
4. Mrs Miller went out to get some fresh air.

5. Mrs Miller is afraid of losing her job.

F. Work in pairs and write a conversation using the role cards below and phrases in exercise A on page 63.
Then act it out in pairs.

Student A
You are a police officer. Ms/Mr James comes to the police station to report a burglary.
He/She is extremely stressed and angry because the burglar stole a lot of money from his house.
Question him/her in detail.

Student B
You are Ms/Mr James. A burglar broke into your house when you were out having dinner with
friends. You came home at 11 pm and noticed that one of your windows was broken.
Then you walked into the house and saw the mess.
You checked your safe and saw that all your money had been stolen.

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