Grammar Unit 5

Past perfect 4 Rewrite the sentences with the correct relative

pronoun.
1 Choose the correct option. Where’s the book? It was in my bag.
A I had / had had such a bad day yesterday. Where’s the book which was in my bag?
B Why? What happened? 1 Have you met the girl? She’s joined the school.
A I couldn’t find my new phone. I thought _______________________________________
someone (1) stole / had stolen it. I (2) only 2 That’s the café. Zac left his phone there.
bought / ’d only bought it two days before. _______________________________________
B How awful! What (3) did you do / had you 3 That’s Mrs Mills. Her husband teaches us art.
done? _______________________________________
A Well, when I got home, I (4) found / ’d found 4 Kidnapping is a crime. It doesn’t often happen.
the phone on the floor in my room. Obviously, _______________________________________
it (5) fell / had fallen out of my bag before I 5 I’ve got an aunt. She was once on a jury.
left for school. I just (6) didn’t realize / hadn’t _______________________________________
realized.
Modals of deduction
2 Complete the sentences. Use the past simple or
past perfect form of the verbs in parentheses. 5 Match sentences 1–7 to A–H.
Her purse was empty. She (forget) had forgotten He must be a police officer. F
to ask her mum for some money. 1 He could be at the gym. ___
1 I was late for school yesterday. The first lesson 2 He can’t be at university. ___
_____________ (start) when I arrived. 3 He might be shoplifting. ___
2 My parents _____________ (be) angry with me 4 He can’t be in bed. ___
because I hadn’t tidied my room. 5 He must be good at sports. ___
3 She didn’t want to read the book again. She 6 He may be a detective. ___
_____________ (read) it twice before. 7 He could be late. ___
4 _____________ (you / meet) any of the people
before you went to the party? A He always gets up at 7 a.m.
5 They _____________ (not feel) hungry because B He had a lot of things to do this afternoon.
they’d eaten such a big lunch. C It looks like he’s putting something in his pocket.
D He’s trying to get fit.
Relative pronouns E He’s on the school football and tennis teams.
F He’s wearing a police uniform.
3 Complete the text with who, which, whose G He isn’t old enough.
or where.
H I haven’t seen him in a police uniform.
Tony Tetro is a name which is well-known in the
6 Complete the sentences with could, can’t,
USA. That’s because it belongs to one of the must or might.
world’s best art forgers. He painted pictures during
She can’t be shoplifting because it’s her shop!
the seventies and eighties (1) __________ he
1 He drives a very expensive car so he
pretended were genuine. Dali and Chagall are just
__________ be incredibly rich.
two of the famous artists (2) __________ work he
2 I’m not sure whose jacket this is. It __________
copied. Tetro made a fortune and lived an
be Dan’s or maybe it’s Leo’s.
extravagant life (3) __________ made the police
3 Katy __________ be really tired. It’s only 4 p.m.
think that he was a drug dealer. The police arrested
and she’s just fallen asleep on the sofa.
him for forgery in 1989 and he was sent to prison,
4 I’ve no idea where your phone is. Perhaps it’s in
(4) __________ he served a five-year sentence.
your coat pocket or it _________ be in your bag.
Tetro still paints today, but he is the only artist in the
5 That __________ be Alicia over there. She’s on
USA (5) __________ has to stamp his name on the
holiday in Canada at the moment.
back of every one of his paintings!
6 He was born in 1925. He ________ be very old.

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Crime nouns Extra vocabulary
1 Complete the sentences with the words in 3 Match the words in the box to the definitions.
the box.
court defendant jury offender peers trial
case crime scene evidence fingerprints
motive victim witness An examination of evidence to decide if
The witnesses had to give evidence at the someone is guilty or not. trial
murder trial. 1 Someone who commits a crime. ____________
1 Fortunately, the _____________ of the attack 2 A group of people who listen to a trial and decide
didn’t receive a serious injury. if someone is guilty or not. ____________
2 The suspect’s _____________ were all over the 3 People who are the same age as you.
weapon. ____________
3 I was a _____________ to the mugging. I saw 4 The place where a trial takes place.
exactly what happened. ____________
4 We couldn’t go into the house after the burglary 5 The person in a trial who is accused of
because it was a _____________ . committing a crime. ____________
5 Nobody knew why the attack had happened.
Word builder: noun suffixes
There was no _____________ .
6 Detectives are working on a complicated 4 Look at the crimes in parentheses. Then
_____________ of internet fraud at the moment. complete the sentences with the person who
commits the crime.
Crimes (shoplifting) I told my parents that I’d seen a
shoplifter.
2 Read the comments and complete the names of 1 (mugging) The victim could describe exactly
the crimes. what the ____________ looked like.
I was in town when a woman attacked me and 2 (forgery) He asked a ____________ to make
stole my handbag. mugging him an identity card.
1 They’ve broken some benches in the park and 3 (drug dealing) The jury found the ____________
sprayed graffiti on the fountain. v_____________ guilty.
2 I’ll publish some photos of you unless you pay 4 (blackmail) We watched a programme about a
me a lot of money. b_____________ famous ____________ .
3 She was standing at the bus stop when
someone took her purse out of her pocket and Talk about photographs
ran off. p_____________
5 Complete the text with the correct words.
4 Members of the gang were printing copies of
€100 banknotes. f_____________
5 The man was driving at 150 km/h!
s_____________
6 That woman has just put something in her bag
and left the shop without paying for it.
s_____________
7 They discovered some people who were bringing
plants illegally into the country. s_____________
I can see a group of people in the (1) __________ .
8 Some men broke into our house last night and
I’m sure it (2) __________ be winter because
stole the TV. b_____________
they’re all wearing coats. They’re watching some
swimmers in the water. It (3) __________ be the
sea or it (4) __________ be a lake. I’m not sure. At
the top on the (5) __________ , there are three

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people on surfboards. It looks (6) __________
they’re wearing Santa Claus costumes!