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A
Victims of crime
Elicit that a 
victim of crime
is the person who suffers from the 
crime.
1–2
When checking the answers, elicit from students that they 
scanned the text in Exercise 1 and skimmed it in Exercise 2.
3
Get students to match the punctuation marks to their uses. 
Remind students that writers are responsible for deciding 
how to punctuate their writing. Colons and semi-colons are 
fairly uncommon – and often only found in formal writing; 
some writers would simply use a full stop instead. Point out 
that double quotation marks (“…”) can also be used, but are 
more common in US English than UK English. (This point is 
also made in Unit 14 Section B 
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4
Refer students to the 
Learning tip
. Students work in pairs to 
take turns to read out individual paragraphs and check each 
other’s awareness of punctuation as an aid to better reading.
5
Ask students to work in pairs to complete this exercise. Check 
the answers as a class.
6
Discuss these questions as a class.
Focus on … the passive
1
Get students to complete the sentences. After checking 
the answers, ask students why the passive has been used 
so much in this letter (the passive is often used in offi cial 
documents; the focus is on the victim of the crime; the agent 
of the verb is often unknown).
2
Get students to transform the sentences into the active form. 
Elicit or explain that you would be more likely to use the 
active form if you were Justyna and you were telling someone 
what had happened.
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