Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one combination is possible)
| 1) courts have meted 2) found guilty of insider trading and 3) a paltry 4) chicken feed to 5) to 30 months in prison 6) Tsutsumi’s fall from 7) the bigger they are 8) socially 9) fabricated hundreds of 10) his shady dealings | a) grace has been swift b) lined his own pockets c) suspended for four years d) ostracized e) $43,000 f) someone of his vast wealth g) non-existent shareholders h) out a strangely lenient sentence i) the harder they fall j) falsifying his company’s share records |
Choose the correct word in each pair of italicized words.
Tycoon avoids prison over shares scam
Japanese courts have meted / bleated out a strangely lenient / lending sentence to a business tycoon who was once listed in Forbes magazine as the world’s richest man. Yoshiaki Tsutsumi was found guilty of outsider / insider trading and falsifying his company’s share records by a court in Tokyo. Presiding / Presidential judge Tsutomu Tochigi said: “The impact on society of crimes by such leading Japanese companies is very serious”. Judge Tochigi then proceeded to hand out a sentence wholly incommensurate with the gravity / depravity of the crime expressed in his summing up / down. He fined Mr. Tsutsumi a paltry $43,000 – peanuts / chicken feed to someone of his vast wealth – and sentenced him to 30 months in prison, suspended for four years. It is highly unlikely Tsutsumi will serve / service any of that time.
Tsutsumi’s fall from grace / prayer has been swift, although he does not quite prove the bandage / adage, “the bigger they are, the harder they fall,” judging from his light court sentencing. The judge said he was not sent to prison because he has already been socially pesticide / ostracized. Tsutsumi is the former chairman of Kokudo Corporation, the core / bore firm of the Seibu railway group, with holdings / helpings in construction, hotels, resorts and a baseball team. He is one of Japan's most powerful industrialists and has close connections to many of the country’s leading politicians. In September 2004, Tsutsumi lied about his steak / stake in his company and fabricated hundreds of non-existent shareholders. The subsequent sale of shares from his shady / luminous dealings lined his own pockets to the tune / tunic of $180,000,000.
10. Look in your dictionaries / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms etc for the words ‘crime’ and ‘sentence’.
| Crime | Sentence |
· Share your findings with your partners.
· Make questions using the words you found.
· Ask your partner / group your questions.