1. Bad luck vocabulary.

A photo of a family under an umbrella in the street in heavy rain.

Choose the best word or expression to complete the sentence.

2. Bad luck vocabulary.

Here are the sentences from exercise 1 again. Write one or two words in the gaps to complete them.

3. Things that go wrong.

Complete the definitions with the words and phrases below. Drag the words to the gap, or you can click the word and then click the gap. This exercise is in four parts. Scroll down to see Part 2, 3 and 4.

Part 1

Now complete Part 2.

Part 2

Now complete Part 3.

Part 3

Now complete Part 4.

Part 4

4. Vocabulary.

Here is the vocabulary from exercise 3 again. Put the words and expressions into the correct boxes.

5. Missing words.

Use some of the words and phrases below to complete the story. There are some extra words that aren't used.

6. Steal, rob and burgle.

Steal, rob and burgle are all criminal actions.

Steal
If you steal something, you take it:

Thieves broke into my car and stole the radio.

Rob
You use rob to talk about people and banks.
If you rob a bank, you go in and steal money from it.
If you rob a person, you steal something from that person.

A masked man robbed the bank in the high street and stole £500,000.
Someone robbed me when I was coming out of the underground.

Burgle
You use burgle to talk about houses and offices.
If you burgle a house or office, you go in and steal something.

My house was burgled when I was on holiday.

 

Choose the correct word to complete each sentence.

7. Crimes and criminals.

A image of a crime scene and a sign saying Crime scene, do not cross.

Here are the crimes and criminals for the verbs you studied in exercise 5.

Verb Criminal Crime
burgle burglar burglary (pl: burglaries)
rob (a bank) robber robbery
rob (a person) thief (pl: thieves) theft
steal (a thing) thief (pl: thieves) theft

 

Complete the paragraphs with the correct form of words from the table.

8. Criminals.

Complete the definitions using the best word.

9. Listen.

Listen to eight people talking about different crimes. Decide what the crime is.

10. Crimes and criminals.

Complete the table. Use exercise 9 to help you.

11. Missing word.

Which ONE word can complete all the sentences?

Thieves _____ into my house.
Our car _____ down on the way to the airport.
The couple _____ up five years after getting married.
Two prisoners _____ out of the prison.
An arm _____ off the statue when they were moving it.

12. Phrasal verbs with break.

Choose the correct option.

For more information about phrasal verbs see the Grammar Reference.

13. Break + adjective/adverb.

Choose the correct word to complete these sentences.