Complete these sentences. Your answers must come from the story
a. Girard Hale met the young girl on a___________ in___________.
b. She asked him if he could______________________.
c. The young girl would not tell______________________.
d. When Girard Hale saw the young girl against, it was______________________.
e. Girard Hale could not have seen the young girl again because she______________________.
Picture comprehension
Make a tick under the picture that shows Mr. Kale's drawing. Say why you think this is correct.
Organizing ideas
Put these sentences into the correct order by writing the numbers 1-7 next to each letter.
a. ____ When the French lady saw the picture, she fainted because it was a picture of their daughter who was dead.
b. ____ He asked the husband about the girl and the husband asked him to draw her.
c. ____ Then he saw the girl he had met on the train but she walked away.
d. ____ Mr. Hale went to the French lady's house and met her and her husband.
e. ____ Then the girl got off the train.
f. ____ He met a young girl on the train and they talked for a while.
g. ____ A famous artist called Girard Hale was traveling by train to paint a French woman.
Writing
Write sentences about the story by putting these words in the correct order.
a. painter went lady. famous to France One to a paint day a French
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b. a young by girl. met He and went train
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c. her could if him paint asked She memory. he from
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d. train the him. The giving without girl her off name. got
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e. he got her house, When the again. saw Hale Mr. to
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f. husband The girl. asked to strange French him lady's draw the
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g. of It their was dead a daughter. picture
UNIT 12
Finding the criminal
Pre-reading activity
1. How do the police catch thieves?
2. What is the word for fingerprint in your language?
3. What police TV show do you like? Why?
The police find most criminals because somebody tells them who the criminals are. They find other criminals by using science and their computers. When there is a bank robbery, the police first look through their computers for the names of bank robbers they know about. Then they go and talk to any of these robbers who are not in jail. They ask them where they were at the time of the robbery. If any of these people cannot give a good answer, the police will often use science to find out if one of them is the robber.
Many criminals leave something of themselves at the place of the crime like a fingerprint or a hair. Or they take something away on their shoes or clothes, like dirt or animal hair. If they leave behind some of their blood or a hair or a piece of skin, it will have their DNA inside it.
Everyone's DNA is different in the same way that their fingerprints are different. Therefore, if a criminal cuts himself during a robbery or leaves a hair, or even a small piece of skin, scientists can find out what his DNA is. The police can then ask the person they think is the robber to give them one of his hairs or some blood and see if it has the same DNA. Many criminals are in jail today because of this kind of evidence.
New words
criminal: The police caught the criminal as she was leaving the bank.
science: Science helps us to know how and why things work.
robbery: In a robbery last night, thieves stole thousands of dollars.
fingerprint: The thief cleaned his fingerprints off the doors and windows.
DNA: We get some DNA from our mother and some from our father.
evidence: Tom is in jail because of Mrs. Smith's evidence.
The main idea
Does each of these sentences say what each paragraph is about? Write T for true or F for false.
Paragraph 1___ Most police find criminals because they know them or because they use computers and science to help them.
Paragraph 2___ Most criminals are dirty and have lots of hair which they leave at the place of the crime.
Paragraph 3___ Many criminals cut themselves when they do crimes.
Vocabulary
1. Find the words in the story that are nearest in meaning to the following phrases.
a. a place where criminals go
b. small part
c. things people wear
d. someone who steals